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President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) May 2014
... Advance care planning is being promoted by Doctors of BC—we’ve just released a policy paper on the ... position to support them and their families. Doctors of BC makes four commitments and four recommendations based on ... illness. Our policy paper can be found on the Doctors of BC website at  www.doctorsofbc.ca . As well, more ...
Obituaries / BY: John Blatherwick, MD, July/August 2014
... department head from 1973 to 1980. From 1975 on, MHOs in BC took the master’s in health sciences at UBC and became ... and a leading light of the Family Planning Association of BC, and director and vice-president of the Family Planning ... He played an active role in environmental health issues in BC and elsewhere—as a member of the Pollution Control Board ...
Obituaries / BY: Irwin Stewart, MD, October 2014
... with the rank of major. He then moved from Ontario to BC, where he met Dr Ivan Logan at Vancouver General Hospital, ...
News December 2014
... a Canada-wide search. Dr Adams was born and raised in BC and is a member of the Tla’amin (Sliammon) First Nation. ... team of FNHA physicians—health and wellness partners to BC First Nations—who will continue to focus on First ...
News January/February 2014
... recognition they deserve in the first annual Doctors of BC Changemaker Awards.  The Changemaker Medical Resident and Student Advocate Awards recognize a Doctors of BC medical resident member and a Doctors of BC medical student member who goes out of their way to ...
Letters / BY: William Gardner, MBChB, April 2014
... to see that the January/February 2014 issue of the  BC Medical Journal  had four items on the topic of ...
News June 2014
... awareness about youth mental health issues, Doctors of BC is seeking submissions of original artwork from BC high school and postsecondary students that expresses what ... from the Council on Health Promotion and the Doctors of BC staff, with one winner selected from the high school ...
News / BY: Shannon Waters, MD, September 2014
... supports frequent HIV testing for Aboriginal people in BC. The new BC HIV testing guidelines urge health care providers to ... an investment in the care.”[ 4 ] We urge implementers of BC’s new HIV testing guidelines to consider culturally ...
Obituaries / BY: Jean Jamieson, MD, November 2014
... and internal medicine, and worked part-time at the BC Cancer Institute (now the BC Cancer Agency). Dr Beck was one of the first in BC to work as a medical oncologist, long before medical ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Daljeet Mahal, MSc, March 2014
... and implementing the WelTel mobile health program, the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and the Oak Tree Clinic at the BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre are establishing themselves as mHealth leaders in BC. WelTel, which involves sending weekly interactive text ...