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Letters / BY: Daniel L. Metzger, MD, FAAP, FRCPC September 2017
... The website of the Endocrinology and Diabetes Unit at BC Children’s Hospital has numerous handouts for patients ... by and for young adults living with type 1 diabetes in BC. They have both in-person meet-ups and a strong Facebook ... L. Metzger, MD, FAAP, FRCPC Pediatric Endocrinologist, BC Children’s Hospital Clinical Professor of Pediatric, UBC ...
News / BY: Erin Connors November 2017
... was one of the first negotiated benefits implemented in BC. It was approved in 1974 after an NDP government was ... 40 years, the PDI plan has been an integral part of many BC physicians’ financial plans and serves to properly protect the income of BC physicians in conjunction with the Disability Income ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD December 2017
... and the coming year. —Trina Larsen Soles, MD Doctors of BC President President's Comment The ghosts of Christmas past ...
Obituaries / BY: Kevin Elwood, MD January/February 2017
... on the role of provincial director of TB control for the BC Ministry of Health, which is where he worked until his ... Canadian Thoracic Society, and served on the board of the BC Lung Association. He was honored with the George Elliot ... when he interviewed me for a position at what is now the BC Centre for Disease Control. It was my first introduction ...
News April 2017
... to die sooner, according to new research from UBC and the BC Cancer Agency. The study is among the first to examine the ... followed 684 patients undergoing treatment at the BC Cancer Agency in Vancouver and Surrey. The patients were ... at UBC, and department head of radiation oncology at the BC Cancer Agency’s Centre for the North in Prince George. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM October 2017
... outdoor activity. Approximately 40% of visitors come from BC and a similar proportion from other parts of Canada.[ 1 ] ... by the fact that it is not a reportable illness in BC and laboratory diagnosis can be challenging.[ 3 ] As well, ... a nonendemic region.[ 5 ] The percentage of TBRF cases in BC also seems high compared with other studies.[ 2 ]  ...
News December 2017
Patients, families, and visitors at BC Children’s Hospital now have greater access to publicly ... first in-hospital Family Immunization Clinic. Situated in BC Children’s ambulatory care building, the clinic is ... to patients and visitors. The clinic further supports BC Children’s in helping to protect some of the most ...
Letters / BY: Gerrard A. Vaughan, MD March 2017
... new patient joins a practice, but must look to Doctors of BC and the Medical Services Commission to ensure that this is ... MD President, College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC —Heidi M. Oetter, MD Registrar and CEO, College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC Letters The College and orphaned patients. College replies ...
News May 2017
... the United Kingdom, resulting in hundreds of infections in BC alone. Today, the bacterium still wreaks havoc as it can ... used samples of  Burkholderia  collected from BC patients during the outbreak in the 1990s to study the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Tania Morrison, MHSc, RD June 2017
Over 1 in 10 households in BC are food insecure, and approximately 1 in 6 children under ...  showed that the majority of food-insecure households in BC are employed (65%), and a minority (15%) are receiving ... social services available to individuals and families in BC ( www.bc211.ca ). As trusted leaders, physicians are well ...