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News December 2014
... based on current research and were developed by a team of BC experts in breast health. Led by the BC Cancer Agency, the Five Plus initiative is a part of the ... breast cancer screening, diagnosis, and prevention across BC. News Reduce breast-cancer risk: Five steps plus two ...
News January/February 2014
Approximately 7000 people living in BC have an inherited heart rhythm condition, which ... them to sudden cardiac arrest and sudden death. The new BC Inherited Arrhythmia Program (BCIAP) is designed to ... and the public. The BCIAP is funded by Cardiac Services BC, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority, ...
Letters / BY: John Dale, MD, April 2014
... ( BCMJ  2014;56:12,47 ), written as a plea for Doctors of BC to take a leadership role on this issue.  There is a need ...
News June 2014
Funding from the provincial government and Doctors of BC will support Selkirk College to launch a new 3-year ... partnership between the Ministry of Health and Doctors of BC. The committee develops programs that strengthen rural ...
News September 2014
... are encouraged to e-mail GPAC at  hlth.guidelines@gov.bc.ca . Physician participation in guidelines and protocols development is compensated at the Doctors of BC sessional rate. News Revised GPAC guideline ...
Obituaries / BY: Wendy Sutton, November 2014
... the doctors and staff at Vancouver General Hospital, the BC Cancer Agency, and in particular the Palliative Care Unit, ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP March 2014
... Columbia to help create a physical activity strategy for BC. There are many voices present vying for priority at this ... task, based on Exercise is Medicine Canada, Doctors of BC has produced exercise prescription pads in which ... Walk With Your Doc event in your community. As Doctors of BC we can take the lead and make a difference for ourselves ...
Letters / BY: Nicholas Rety, MD May 2014
... about the change of our association’s name to Doctors of BC. I proposed renaming the association Doctors BC some 30 years ago, as described in an article I wrote for the May 1983 issue of the  BC Medical Journal , ( BCMJ  1983;25:232-233 ). I welcome ...
News / BY: Kate Senkow, July/August 2014
As part of Doctors of BC’s commitment to better engage with members, we will soon ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG October 2014
... the law banning assisted suicide is unconstitutional; the BC Supreme Court has already decided that it is, but the law in BC has not changed. Quebec, however, has very recently made ...