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President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS November 2016
... about anything else that relates to my role as Doctors of BC president, my rural professional life, or my life as a member of a vibrant rural BC community—is of value or interest to them. Increasingly ... who use social media. As an organization, Doctors of BC is very active on social media platforms such as Twitter ...
News October 2016
The CareCard is being replaced by the BC Services Card, a secure credential with features to ... jurisdictions are being directed to not accept the BC CareCard as evidence of enrollment in MSP. For more information on the BC Services Card visit ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB September 2016
... health care task forces and commissions; 25 years ago BC’s Royal Commission on Health Care and Costs (the Seaton ... across Canada embraced and implemented many of the BC proposals, including the following: “The commission ... the monopoly control of governments. The report of the BC Select Standing Committee on Health concluded, “Your ...
Letters / BY: Evert Tuyp, MD, FRCPC January/February 2016
In the October 2015 Pulsimeter item “BC at GC: Why care? (So long and thanks for the fish)” [ ... makes the following statement regarding the Doctors of BC delegation to the CMA General Council: “ongoing issues ... but act provincially. —Evert Tuyp, MD President, BC Section of Dermatology Letters Re: BC at GC: Why care? ...
News April 2016
... of Ottawa.  The $1000 MacDermot prize recognizes a BC medical student’s significant achievement in medical ... editor of the  Vancouver Medical Bulletin  and the  BC Medical Journal , and a past president of both the ... student authors, and awards writing prizes for the best BC med student submissions accepted for publication. BC ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Kelly Mayson, MD, FRCPC December 2016
The BC Enhanced Recovery Collaborative (the Collaborative) was a ... a partnership of the Ministry of Health and Doctors of BC. Translating evidence-based medicine into processes of ... guidance notes have been reviewed and shared with the BC Anesthesiologists Society and the multidisciplinary ...
Obituaries / BY: Gershon Growe, MD November 2016
... a mentor to many individuals in the medical community in BC. Born in Toronto, Dr Naiman graduated from the University ...
News July/August 2016
... and cancer pain. Farmooo will be tested later this year at BC Children’s Hospital. News Virtual game helps young ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jasmine Grewal, MD, FRCPC September 2016
... operates at St. Paul’s Hospital in collaboration with BC Women’s Hospital ( Figure 1 ). The Cardiac Obstetric ... fashion. Many patients are referred from other parts of BC, and whenever possible support is given so that women with ... with CHD who reach childbearing age is increasing. In BC a special multidisciplinary Cardiac Obstetrics clinic at ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Stanger, MD, March 2016
... in a nonacademic setting.[ 6 ] In December 2010, the BC Ministry of Health sponsored a symposium on ... approached the Specialist Services Committee (a Doctors of BC and Ministry of Health joint committee) to fund a study of ... referred to the joint replacement clinic in Victoria, BC, and 39 shoulder patients undergoing rotator cuff repair. ...