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Beyond Medicine / BY: Jannemé Frouws, MBChB, CCFP, December 2012
... . . . that I probably need a bit of a break from primary health care. Beyond Medicine Special feature: Santa Claus is ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle Horn, BA, March 2012
... Committee (GPSC), a partnership between the Ministry of Health and the BC Medical Association, has developed a ... Program for general practitioners that includes mental health modules for both adults and children and youth. These ... for primary care physicians.  For the adult mental health module, see  ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David D. Sweet, MD, FRCPC May 2012
... Sepsis best practices in BC In 2008, the BC Ministry of Health funded Evidence 2 Excellence, an academic emergency health care initiative to establish interprofessional ... BC.  Research funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research is being used for a 3-year study to examine ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Philippa Hawley, FRCPC July/August 2012
... Injectable methadone can be imported from the UK with Health Canada approval, but supplies are also available in ... Injectable methadone may be or­dered in advance through Health Canada, and emergency supplies can be obtained from ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Ken Seethram, MD, FRCSC, FACOG September 2012
... (EOL) care, where he learned about the Ministry of Health’s support for advance care planning and about the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alison Granger-Brown, MA, December 2012
Correctional institutions in BC offer a variety of health and education programs for wo­men, including drug and ... liaison services. Incarcerated women also have access to health care professionals, including nurses, doctors, ... psychologists, and psychiatrists[ 1 , 2 ] The World Health Organization mandates that incarcerated individuals ...
President's Comment / BY: Nasir Jetha, MD, March 2012
... on many of our committees that deal with policy, health promotion, negotiations, and governance is only ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Ronette Haboosheh, MSc, RAUD, RHIP, May 2012
... with another 3000 or so new claims added each year. Annual health care costs associated with these claims are more than ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Marshall Dahl, MD, PhD, FRCPC July/August 2012
... Couillard, the neurosurgeon who was Quebec Minister of Health. He gave the best rational review of international health systems that I have heard, and did it with a ... most anticipate? The true universal integrated accessible health record. What is your most marked characteristic? I ...
MDs To Be / BY: Katie Wiskar, MD, FRCPC October 2012
Physicians have traditionally neglected their own health in favor of their many profession­al and personal ... and increasing attention is being paid to physician health. Self-care is now considered a core competency by the ... are expected to “demonstrate a commitment to physician health and sustainable practice.”[ 1 ]  Medical ...