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News / BY: Kim Pelletier, CEBS, April 2016
... and declining insurer profits. The good news: Doctors of BC members have access to exclusive insurance plans, where ... with one of our in-house advisors, contact the Doctors of BC Insurance Department by e-mail at insurance@doctorsofbc.ca ...
Letters / BY: Murray Trusler, MD, MBA, FCFP, FRRMS, May 2016
The new BC Guideline, Atrial Fibrillation—Diagnosis and Management ... arms of the SPORTIF III and SPORTIF V trials.[ 5 ] In BC we do not employ the tools needed to achieve a TTR > 75%, simply because they are not funded by our BC health care system. So BC physicians, health care ...
Obituaries / BY: Charles Reeve, Jr., PhD November 2016
... and lobbied for medical practitioners, like Doctors of BC. After several decades as a physician, Ted sought a new ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Hortense Tabien Nsoh, MD July/August 2016
... within the room. Tools for situational awareness in BC National smoke forecasts: ... and rescue medications before the fire season begins. The BC Centre for Disease Control leads internationally ... using satellite imagery and pharmaceutical data. The BC Asthma Monitoring System has been recognized by ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Karen LeComte, MSN, RN September 2016
... care provided through the Children’s Heart Centre at BC Children’s Hospital (BCCH) and adult care provided ... the growing population of adults with CHD throughout BC, a closer-to-home care model, patterned on the success of ... funding from the Vancouver Foundation, BCCH, Child Health BC, and the Shared Care Committee (SCC) and Specialist ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Cavers, MD April 2015
... who has long been engaged in the activities of Doctors of BC I’m here to tell you that governance isn’t only ... you care? Because the main responsibilities of Doctors of BC fall into three broad categories:  •    Negotiating ... to represent your interests, regardless of where in BC you live and practise.  First, some background. A new ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: John Hamilton, MD, July/August 2015
... between the provincial government and Doctors of BC. Although each of the three committees has its own unique ... to bring about system-wide improvement.[ 5 ] The value to BC physicians and their partners is that evaluation is now ... Group  —Sarah Fielden, PhD Evaluation Lead, Doctors of BC Family Practice Services Committee The power of collective ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Colin Harris, MSN, BSc (Crim), RN, AFN-BC, F-ABMDI, September 2015
... . —Colin Harris, MSN, BSc (Crim), RN, AFN-BC, F-ABMDI WorkSafeBC Investigations Officer WorkSafeBC ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM December 2015
... cases of Legionnaires’ disease are uncommon. The BC Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory offers ... and serology. The  Figure  shows testing trends in BC from 2010 to 2014 and the number of positive cases ... Health care professionals are asked to refer to the BC Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory Guide ...
Obituaries / BY: Brad Fritz, MD January/February 2015
... of poor results in negotiations with the Government of BC, the then BCMA decided to hire a nonphysician expert in ... interests of the people of the province and the doctors of BC with great wisdom and humility. He served in that role for ... is a better place thanks to him, and the doctors of BC owe him a great deal. —Brad Fritz, MD Vancouver ...