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Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB July/August 2022
... hectic, productive, and filled with optimism. Canadian doctors lack the political influence that doctors in Britain enjoy. I attended the British Medical ... Dr Barry Turchen presented a study at the CMA using BC’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act ...
Obituaries / BY: Richard N. Merchant, MD, FRCPC November 2022
... Outside his department, he was president of the BC Anesthesiologists’ Society and a representative to the ... time that the award was given and the first time to a BC recipient. He was also recognized with a Doctors of BC CMA Honorary Membership Award in 2016, and he ...
News April 2022
... nature prescription program, an initiative of the BC Parks Foundation driven by health care professionals. Each ... for how to prescribe and log nature prescriptions. Doctors and other licensed health care professionals in BC can now prescribe Parks Canada Discovery Passes to ...
News June 2022
Business Pathways is a new program from Doctors of BC dedicated to helping members navigate the operational side ... HR management is an area of particular importance to doctors, and more in-depth toolkits for other key aspects of ...
News / BY: Holly Pastoral October 2022
... ( www.doctorsofbc.ca/business-pathways ) was initiated by Doctors of BC in response to physician members asking for more ... on how to run the business side of their practice. The Doctors of BC Board of Directors prioritized this work to ...
News / BY: Erin Connors January/February 2022
... HWTs be converted to ELHTs by the end of 2021. The Doctors of BC Health Benefits Trust Fund (HBTF) was established in 2005 ... to an ELHT as of 1 January 2022. In October 2021, Doctors of BC contacted members of the HBTF plan and advised ...
Letters / BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP April 2022
Try to find a family doctor in BC and you will be sadly disappointed. Patients are now ... over the role of a family physician. Where are the family doctors we were promised in the “A GP for Me” initiative? ... per year, with no overhead costs. In Victoria, 72 family doctors have recently become hospitalists. In the Fraser ...
News July/August 2022
... speak with experts Julie Jones and Carl Prophet about how doctors can optimize their physical and online safety ( ... current political climate and its effect on violence for BC doctors. They share how, through prevention planning and ...
Editorials / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) May 2022
While the two leading health crises in BC remain opioids and COVID-19, a third—the declining ... Statistics Canada figures from 2019 indicate that 17.7% of BC residents (897 567) lacked a regular health care ... said, “But we’re dying out here. We just cannot get doctors to come in and take on patient panels right now. . . ...
News / BY: Julie Kwan, BBA, CFP, CLU, GBA September 2022
Westland Insurance Group Ltd., Doctors of BC’s home- and office-insurance partner, provides advice to ... extortion, and ransom. —Julie Kwan Insurance Advisor, Doctors of BC News Perils of wisdom—covering risk to your ...