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Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Graham A.A. Dodd, MSc, MD, CCFP(EM), MADEM
March 2013
... months have seen a number of large earthquakes rock the BC coast. These seismic events should serve as a wake-up call ... earthquakes struck the more populous areas of the southern BC coast—where a significant quake has long been ... and hospitals for a major emergency or disaster in BC? Over the last 5 decades the number of global ...
President's Comment /
BY: Shelley Ross, MD
May 2013
... initiatives to support our rural docs. As well, with BC’s physician shortage problem, we need to continue ...
News
September 2013
Cardiac Services BC, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority ... they are performed in the province. HEARTis replaces the BC Cardiac Registry, a 20-year-old system that required ... departments from all five regional health authorities in BC. HEARTis improves access to critical health-related ...
Physician Information Technology Office /
BY: Bruce Hobson, MD
December 2013
With 80% of target family physicians and specialists in BC now using EMRs (85% including practices currently in the ... benefit to their practice (for more details visit www.pito.bc.ca/support/post-implementation/support ). Dr Gerrit ... primary care indicators (for details visit www.pito.bc.ca/support/communities-of-practice/idp ). These examples ...
Letters /
BY: Ebrahim Rafi-Zadeh, MD,
January/February 2013
... can be ordered or viewed on the web at www.health.gov.bc.ca . The numbers are fascinating and, at times, mind ... Disparity in physician income has been a problem in BC for as long as I have been practising (42 years) and the BC Medical Association has been incapable of solving the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Natalie Prystajecky, PhD, SCCM
April 2013
... the number of reported gastroenteritis outbreaks across BC compared with previous seasons. The number of reported ... To track the transmission patterns of norovirus in BC, the environmental microbiology laboratory genotypes ... variant that had not previously been observed in BC. This strain, named GII.4 Sydney (2012), was first ...
Letters /
BY: Geraldine Vance, APR,
July/August 2013
... regarding the clinical services proposals made by the BC Pharmacy Association in March of this year [ ... of the clinical services we believe should be adopted in BC, all are operating successfully in other provinces or ... has diaper rash or mosquito bites. —Geraldine Vance CEO, BC Pharmacy Association Letters Re: Pharmacists ...
Obituaries /
BY: Archie D. Young, MD,
October 2013
... was financed largely by Captain J.C. Dun-waters of Fintry, BC, himself a lover of the Ayrshire cow. Learning about hard ... contribution to health care by a family physician in BC. • 2000: Senior membership in the CMA. • ...
Specialist Services Committee /
BY: Ian Courtice, MD,
January/February 2013
... does the Cleveland Clinic have to do with health care in BC? Well, the two of us traveled to Ohio with a group of BC specialists and health care executives in November to find ... collaboration with the Specialist Services Committee. The BC team got extraordinary access with briefings from a full ...