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News / BY: Ada Lo November 2016
... trustee is elected, the funds will be paid to the courts. Health and dental coverage If a physician has health and dental coverage through the Doctors of BC Health Benefits Trust Fund, it is important to add the child ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2016
... That the SGP and Doctors of BC engage with the Ministry of Health, UBC, and health authorities to support the medical education of future ... BC, SGP, and Specialists of BC engage with the Ministry of Health, UBC, and health authorities to develop and address an ...
Editorials / BY: Jasmine Grewal, MD, FRCPC September 2016
... financial difficulties that present barriers to proactive health management. Many of these patients will require ...
News January/February 2016
... prostate cancer developed by UBC and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) scientists has been ...
Articles / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC December 2016
... fertility decline.”[ 19 ] It is therefore incumbent on health care providers to educate women about the risks of ... to “expect it all.”[ 5,37 ] Ethicists have stated that health care providers should “frame discussions” about ... egg freezing “within the broader context of reproductive health and family-making to assist women in making informed ...
Letters / BY: Murray Trusler, MD, MBA, FCFP, FRRMS, May 2016
... a TTR > 75%, simply because they are not funded by our BC health care system. So BC physicians, health care professionals, and patients do not have open ... as a consequence. It is also very costly for our health care system. If we adhere to the BC Guideline, as ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC October 2016
... and is considered an important re-emerging public health problem in both tropical and temperate regions. The ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP June 2016
... “intends neither to hasten or postpone death” (World Health Organization, 1990, ... improve symptom control and quality of life, and to reduce health care utilization in the last months of life.[ 1 , 12 , ... leads to a greater positive impact on length of stay and health care costs.[ 14 ] Research has also revealed that ...
News September 2016
... This research was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and by a grant from the Alzheimer’s Society ...
Letters / BY: Stephen D. Anderson, MD, FRCPC March 2016
... my opinion the patient could be certified under the Mental Health Act and hospitalized because he has a mental illness ... could be treated against his will under the Mental Health Act would depend on whether his mental state was being ...