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President's Comment / BY: Bill Cavers, MD January/February 2015
... as priorities—a stronger voice of influence in the health care system and expanded collaboration with ... facility-based physicians to have influence within their health authorities over matters as significant as planning, ... in the services they provide to patients, and in the health care system as a whole. In my opinion, this is a ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Winsby, MD May 2015
... 13%[ 2 ] between 2003 and 2013. Most notable, the Fraser Health Authority and Vancouver Coastal Health Authority saw declines of 27% and 24%2 respectively. The Ministry of Health developed five residential care service agreements in ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2015
... Advocate—Ms Elisa Assadi Doctors of BC Excellence in Health Promotion Awards Non-Profit Award—Across the Lake ...
News / BY: Renee Bricker October 2015
... if they are declined for insurance coverage due to health or lifestyle issues. High–net worth individuals who ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Amanzo A. Ho, BSc, April 2015
... surgery, or pathology using province-wide electronic health records. The size, location, and histology of each ... conscious sedation and thus eliminates the inherent health risks of sedation (e.g., respiratory depression, ...
News June 2015
Presenting complex health information to a diverse population with varying levels of health literacy can be challenging. Of particular concern is the correlation between lower health literacy and the underusage of preventive health ...
News September 2015
... to Africa with her mother as a Canada-Africa Community Health volunteer. Ms Phillips will be attending Queen’s ...
President's Comment / BY: Charles Webb, MBChB November 2015
... a lot these days, especially when it comes to our health care system. And there is good reason for that. We ... truly engaged—with each other, with our patients, with health authorities and government, and with our allied health professionals. Doctors of BC has a history of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Rana S. A. Khan, MBBS, January/February 2015
... observations support this belief. In a report published in Health Policy in 2008, Hanson and colleagues[ 4 ] evaluated ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Benjamin Ross, MD, April 2015
... Dr John Sullivan, cardiac surgeon at Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre in Halifax. He was a mentor for me and ... advance do you most anticipate? A complete overhaul of e-health records, more direct patient access to specialists, ...