Proust for Physicians /
BY: James A. Wilson, MD
January/February 2013
... practise? Anywhere that doesn’t have four times as many health bureaucrats as practising doctors. What technological ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Bill Cavers, MD
April 2013
On 22 February Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid and BCMA President Dr ... attachment has not been tried before in a fee-for-service health care system, but recognizing the proven benefits of a ... family practice, the lower the overall annual cost to the health care system. Other studies had previously proven the ...
News
June 2013
Movember Canada is requesting applications for mental health interventions in the priority areas of ... to date through Movember dollars in the areas of mental health, with additional requests for applications to be ... Reducing the stigma of men suffering from a mental health condition across all stages of life (childhood and ...
News /
BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD
September 2013
... bowel disease within the setting of the Canadian health care system. This book is one that anyone treating ... head on by personally educating medical students and health care professionals about how to communicate, and how ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Jeffrey Quon, DC, MHSc, PhD, FCCSC
November 2013
... found at www.worksafebc.com (click on Safety at Work, then Health Care Providers, then Chiropractors). When to refer to ... services for injured workers, contact WorkSafeBC Health Care Services at 604 232-7787, or for clinical ...
Letters /
BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC
March 2013
Health Canada intermittently issues advisories with a warning ... and Britain, banned the sale of kava-kava. Canada Health also issued a stop-sale order.[ 4 ] In 2005 Health Canada issued a warning on products containing ...
Editorials /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
May 2013
“Pharmacists pitch cure for ailing health care budgets,” read the front page headline of our ... proposal to government on “staking out a bigger role in health care.” They plan to build on their experience ... a prescription. Pharmacists claim they would save the health care system tens of millions of dollars if they could ...
Letters /
BY: John Miller, MD,
July/August 2013
... benefit in either of these situations. How many precious health care dollars are being spent? How many people are ...
Letters /
BY: Barend Grobbelaar, MD,
October 2013
... gaps in their communities and creating sustainable quality health care for all. This is a tall order at this level of ...
News
December 2013
... and heroin on maternal, neonatal, and early childhood health, advocating for compassion and support from health care providers. The study points out that existing health challenges faced by women who use drugs, alcohol, and ...