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News November 2012
... coordinator at 115–1665 West Broadway, Vancouver BC, V6J 5A4 by 30 November 2012. CMA Honorary Membership The ... coordinator at 115–1665 West Broadway, Vancouver BC, V6J 5A4 by 30 November 2012. Dr David M. Bachop Gold ... coordinator at 115–1665 West Broadway, Vancouver BC, V6J 5A4 by 30 November 2012. Dr Don Rix Award for ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP January/February 2012
... Move for Health Day (10 May 2012), challenging all BC school children to Be Active Every Day.  The goal is to ... Be Active Every Day. Doctors can help We are asking BC doctors to contact schools in their area and invite ... in a favorable direction.  We will be continuing to ask BC doctors to participate in the annual Walk with your Doc ...
Letters April 2012
... 2012 issue we made two errors in the Pulsimeter item “BC first: Hemodialysis” ( BCMJ 2012;54:44 ). First, we ... the corrected version online at www.bcmj.org/pulsimeter/bc-first-hemodialysis . We apologize to Dr Angus Rae for the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM July/August 2012
... William Osler)[ 6 ] is still very much alive and well in BC and that improvements in testing, albeit challenging to ... and Stanley Wong. This article is the opinion of the BC Centre for Disease Control and has not been peer reviewed by the  BCMJ  Editorial Board. BC Centre for Disease Control Better syphilis infection ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Karen Wanger, MDCM, FRCPC, FACEP, October 2012
... and resuscitative care in the out-of-hospital setting. BC’s Emergency and Health Services Commission employs full- and part-time physicians who work closely with BC Ambulance Service Operations in decision making and ...
Letters / BY: J.F.M. Oosthuizen, MD, December 2012
... and weather conditions are vastly different in northern BC.  Personally, I have a congenital heart condition, which ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS March 2012
... of colorectal cancer is stable, the overall incidence in BC will continue to increase as a result of an increased ... test would have been the most effective?  Vernon, BC, is a mid-sized city with a mid-sized regional hospital ... offers a unique glimpse into the future of health care in BC. In 2006 Vernon’s 65 and older population was 22%, ...
News May 2012
BC Patient Safety Quality Council has presented 2011 BC Quality Awards to four Provincial Health Services ... engag­ed in initiatives to improve the quality of care in BC.  Drs Johann Brink, Tonia L. Nich­olls, and Christopher ...
President's Comment / BY: Shelley Ross, MD July/August 2012
I write this a few short days after the BC Medical Association’s Annual General Meeting held in ... I think is important to share with all the doctors of BC, because you are the subject of my goals. By now you have ... aware of the dissatisfaction among some specialties in BC, who believe that the BCMA does not have their best ...
News October 2012
... family practice locum services is AGPforME@bcma.bc.ca . Any physician who wishes to participate in the ...