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Clinical Articles / BY: Tiffany Wong, MD, FRCPC September 2021
... measures. Methods Context This was a prospective, single-centre quality improvement study of drug allergy labeling in ... Specialist Services Committee, a partnership of Doctors of BC and the BC Ministry of Health, provided funding for time and project ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD January/February 2021
... administered in record time. Physicians were front and centre in that effort, from planning to execution. And we ... leaders. Women are leading our pandemic response from the BC Provincial Health Office to the Public Health Agency of ... hope and optimism.  —Matthew C. Chow, MD Doctors of BC President President's Comment COVID-19 Looking to 2021 ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD July/August 2021
... from the Office of the Provincial Health Officer, to the BC Centre for Disease Control, to laboratories and testing sites ... many more still to come. —Matthew C. Chow, MD Doctors of BC President President's Comment Cheerleader-in-chief ...
News, COVID-19 March 2021
The BC Centre for Disease Control and the BC Ministry of Health have produced the BC Care Bundle for Supporting High-Risk Patients During ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Giselle Hunt, BSc May 2021
... and provides information on when and how to access the BC Women’s Centre for Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis to obtain ... referring to a fertility clinic is recommended.[ 27 ] The BC Women’s Centre for Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis is an ...
News December 2021
... Josh Greggain Dr Josh Greggain was acclaimed as Doctors of BC’s president-elect. For over 15 years, Dr Greggain has ... populations. He became involved with Doctors of BC in 2020 as a member of the Joint Standing Committee on ... roles including medical director at the Hope Medical Centre and the Fraser Canyon Clinic, site medical director at ...
Obituaries / BY: Nancy Kent, MD April 2021
... mentor, and a dear friend and treasured colleague at BC Women’s Hospital. Leanne was born in August 1972 and ... Leanne began her maternal fetal medicine fellowship at BC Women’s Hospital and a Master of Health Sciences in ... challenges of balancing work in an academic tertiary care centre with her roles of wife, mother, friend, colleague, ...
Joint Collaborative Committees / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC May 2021
In BC, doctors have a unique opportunity to get involved with ... first-of-its-kind partnership in Canada between Doctors of BC and the BC government. The JCCs bring together doctors, ... medical staff associations, and the Rural Coordination Centre of BC (RCCbc) to take a grassroots approach to enhance ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: David May, MD, CCFP July/August 2021
... pandemic. According to Statistics Canada, on average, BC’s rural populations are older, poorer, and have a higher ... Health Canada Framework on Palliative Care[ 2 ] and the BC Centre for Palliative Care[ 3 ] address the need for ...
Obituaries / BY: B. De Freitas, MDCM, FRCPC January/February 2021
... some afternoons to the New Westminster Mental Health Centre. He retired from hospital practice at age 75 but ... as the number of Chinese-speaking immigrants surged in BC. His personal vision and efforts led to the creation (in ... Just before he turned 90, he fired off a letter to the BC Therapeutics Initiative on the harms of statins after ...