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News July/August 2012
The BC Renal Agency has won a national award for its PROMIS ... teams at kidney care centres around the province.  The BC Renal Agency is recognized nationally and internationally ... safety program. Kidney patient health outcomes in BC, including survival, are among the best in the world. For ...
MDs To Be / BY: Katie Wiskar, MD, FRCPC October 2012
... patients, and the health care system as a whole. BC’s Walk With Your Doc initiative, attended by over 100 ... Doctors Unit.[ 33 ] At present there is no such program in BC, and this could be an area for future growth. Programs ... battle.  Acknowledgments Many thanks to Rob Hulyk at the BC Medical Association for his guidance on this research ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS January/February 2012
... surgeons in Canada is 5.0 per 100 000 people.[ 1 ] In BC we currently have 4.0 general surgeons for every 100 000 ... do not end up practising general surgery. In Canada and in BC, the growing and rapidly aging population means an ... general surgeons was identified.[ 10 ] The population of BC grew by 33.8% from 1992 to 2012 and is projected to grow ...
News March 2012
... the next 25 years, the BCMA has submitted a report to the BC government’s Select Standing Committee on Health titled ...
Letters / BY: Marc Kazimirski, JD, June 2012
... are ap­proximately 1500 new criminal trials per year in BC” and this “pales in comparison to the roughly 65000 ... of criminal cases are filed in the pro­vincial court of BC and not in the Supreme Court of BC. In 2011 there were 93564 adult criminal filings in the ...
Letters / BY: David B. Miller, MD, FRCPC September 2012
... Columbia’s health authorities have formed a single BC Health Au­thorities Pharmacy and Therapeutics (BCHA P&T) ... Because there is now only one body for all hospitals in BC, the recommendations of BCHA P&T affect all physicians who practise in BC hospitals. Recently BCHA P&T has recommended against ...
News November 2012
... timely therapy decisions. The project was funded by Genome BC and the Provincial Health Services Authority, with each ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper January/February 2012
... degrees from Simon Fraser University. Mr Seckel became BC’s deputy attorney general in 2003, overseeing the ... secretary. In this position he was also the head of the BC Public Service, where he was responsible for the overall ... retired. You practised law for 18 years be­fore becoming BC’s deputy attorney general. What made you interested in ...
Letters / BY: Hal D. Gunn, MD, April 2012
... nature of InspireHealth and its programs [Cash-strapped BC government has money to burn.  BCMJ 2011;53:547 ].  ... on staff, both of whom were researchers at the BC Cancer Re­search Centre.  Review of all InspireHealth ... significantly longer survival compared with standard BC survival statistics. These studies were not randomized ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS July/August 2012
... the Library of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC and has not been peer reviewed by the  BCMJ  Editorial ...