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News November 2017
Each year, Fraser Health recognizes employees, physicians, and volunteers who ... with their Above & Beyond Awards. This year, Fraser Health celebrated several individuals and teams. Among the ... were two individual physicians at sites across Fraser Health: • Dr Richard Merchant, an anesthesiologist at Royal ...
Premise / BY: Kevin Wade, CD, MD, CCFP March 2017
... for exhaustive resubmission of documentation to multiple health authorities and, separately, to the College. There is ... provincial mandate of privileging, communication between health authorities is apparently nonexistent. Woe betide the ... locum who would choose to work in both Merritt (Interior Health) and Hope (Fraser Health), for this necessitates ...
Letters / BY: David D.W. Twa, BSc October 2017
... on how accessible marijuana will reshape the economy and health outcomes, particularly among underserved and ... restrictions on studies evaluating the economics and health effects of controlled substances, such as marijuana, ... characteristics on marijuana usage associated with mental health, fatalities, and organized crime, among other ...
News December 2017
... Innovation Engagement Forum will provide examples of health care innovations developed by medical colleagues, ... your opinion and try out technology solutions to improve health care delivery. The forum is co-sponsored by the ... Doctors of BC and the BC government) and Vancouver Coastal Health. Visit the forum website at  ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD December 2017
... to build positive change within the profession and for health care in our province. Regardless of one’s religious ...
Obituaries / BY: Kevin Elwood, MD January/February 2017
... in 1958, where he worked for the Ontario Ministry of Health in TB control. In 1965 Dr Allen moved to Victoria and ... provincial director of TB control for the BC Ministry of Health, which is where he worked until his retirement in ... George Elliot Award for lifetime contribution to public health in British Columbia. I first formally met Ted in 1982 ...
News April 2017
... with cancer. The study confirms that it is important for health care providers to treat not only patients’ tumors ...
Obituaries / BY: Jack Burak, MD July/August 2017
... witty, caring friend to so many of us physician and allied health care colleagues, and to his family. Rod followed many ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: David A. McVea, MD, PhD November 2017
... one place to another has significant consequences on their health and the health of their community. Most people travel by themselves ... pollutants that cause both short- and long-term health impacts. Passenger vehicles are also significant ...
News&Notes December 2017
... Bri­tish Columbia is on the cusp of great change. Rural health care has met the information technology age and things ... between the au­thor and a strongly supportive Northern Health Authority. It was a proposal that articulated the need to bring echocardiograms into a rural health care facility away from the regional centres. The idea ...