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Obituaries / BY: Jack Chritchley, MD, FRCPC, June 2015
... was the director of medical oncology at Shaughnessy Hospital in the 1980s and took that clinic to the Burnaby Hospital in the 1990s. During those years he was also a ... chief of oncology for the Bermuda Hospitals Board. Most of my personal memories of Terry stem from our days on the BC ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD September 2015
... with some serious health issues that forced me to leave my practice for about 9 months. I have just returned and all ... supports, family, and friends when the need arises. My office partners, busy and already overworked, never showed ... them just to make sure I was okay. My department head and hospital administrators were willing to help with some ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD April 2015
... into action when the loud voice reverberated through the hospital corridors. Grabbing my white coat I sprinted down the hall, stethoscope trailing in my jet stream, startled visitors and knowing staff scattered ...
MDs To Be / BY: Greg Costello, MD June 2015
... Essays by Sir William Osler The doors to the Fort St. John Hospital slide open and I brush the snow off my shoulders and stomp my boots. I say hello to the passing housekeeping staff ...
Obituaries / BY: Doug Blackman, MD, September 2015
... After completing an internship at the Royal Columbian Hospital he ran a full-spectrum family medicine practice in ... others. Early in his career Dr VanAndel became involved in hospital medical staff affairs at Royal Columbian, where his ... and his or her legal counsel, he would say, “Let me take my registrar’s hat off for a moment,” and then ...
Back Page / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD June 2014
... in Williams Lake, British Columbia, I found some of my patients were using Hoffman’s drops, consisting of one ... in Winnipeg. As a GP/anesthetist in the Cariboo Memorial Hospital, I used open drop diethyl ether to put people to ... the triumphal march into nothingness reverberated through my brain, and filled me with a sense of infinite ...
MDs To Be / BY: Jason An, BSc(Hons), December 2014
... of myself at 1-day old, a train of curiosities entered my mind. What was life like as an infant? Who was around me ... And how exactly did I come into this world? That night my mother told me about how she had gone into hospital after her water broke, gone into labor, and ...
News&Notes / BY: Michal Smialowski, MD, January/February 2014
... in the 7-Eleven parking lot in Burns Lake, BC. My wife Leslie and I were returning from a windsurfing ... Williams Lake to Bella Coola. Each of those towns has a hospital. Tatlayoko Lake is about 35 km south of Tatla Lake ... from the local helicopter pilot about overloading with all my medical “junk,” but in that case, I was very grateful ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB May 2014
... wall for a few years now—as I mentioned 2 years ago in my editorial on retirement ( BCMJ  2012;54:118-119 ). Since ... the passage of time. On the contrary; I am very happy with my situation in life and feel truly blessed to be where I am. ... their social life seems to consist of visiting friends in hospital or care facilities and going to funerals and ...
Obituaries / BY: Jane Cowan, PhD, September 2014
... Island before being transferred to Shaughnessy Veterans’ Hospital at the end of the Second World War.  With ... American Association of Plastic Surgeons. I met Bob during my first year of surgical training at Shaughnessy Hospital in ... at Vancouver General Hospital. Dr Cowan encouraged me in my desire to train in plastic surgery and recommended that I ...