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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 ...
Letters / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD May 2017
... term  patient medical home  have been broadly used by health care organizations in other countries and over the ...
Obituaries / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD June 2017
... help, a not-for-profit group with other Canadian health care workers to focus on collaborative teaching in ... OkaZHI was born, a partnership of Okanagan and Zambian health care workers. While teaching with his team in rural ...
Premise / BY: Paul Winston, MD, FRCPC September 2017
... pain clinics, recognition of the role played by mental health, and better management of diseases such as rheumatoid ... a sports injury?” Many patients have longstanding mental health conditions that take hours to assess and treat. It is ... chronic pain disorder than to complete a detailed mental health assessment and identify the life stressors affecting ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD November 2017
... era of dwindling resources and inadequate capacity in the health care system, networks of care will be our opportunity ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2017
... a year for a charitable organization called International Health Services, which worked on innovative health care solutions for underserviced populations—malaria ... the people who are going to retire. Is there a particular health care issue that you think needs more attention right ...
Letters / BY: R.A. Rockerbie, PhD January/February 2017
... The existing evidence that marijuana poses a potential health hazard to adolescents is unequivocal. In the matter of ...
Editorials / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS April 2017
... of older people, both in terms of their background health conditions and surrounding circumstances. Older people ... 14 ] We need to support physicians and all other health professionals so that they feel empowered and ready ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jacqueline Reid, BSc, BN June 2017
... Patient satisfaction is an important component of health care, particularly when an invasive procedure is ... Methods After approval was granted by the Interior Health Research Ethics Board for a retrospective chart ...
News / BY: Renee Bricker July/August 2017
... a simple form that asks a few general questions on health and lifestyle and, if answered in a preferred manner, ... at a higher cost due to increasing age? Further, if your health changes, will your current insurance accommodate a new ...