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President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD March 2010
... practice is quickly be­coming a solid cornerstone of BC’s health care system that provides fair compensation for ... designed to help improve the specialist care system in BC and to enhance specialist physician compensation, ... these initiatives to improve specialty care in BC over the next several years.  —Brian Brodie, MD BCMA ...
News / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) June 2010
... and regulatory structures can be put into place. As yet BC does not regulate PAs, although the government has ... fold. Where would PAs fit into the health care system in BC? A number of demonstration projects have shown that PAs ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J. Hawkeswood, MD, October 2010
... OA patients (physician referral is required).[ 28 ]  The BC Ministry of Health Services web site provides other ...
News December 2010
... partners to fight breast cancer. Over the past 4 years BC has increased spending on screening mammography by $5.48 ... Program since 2001 to $23.5 million.  Although BC has the lowest incidence of breast cancer in the country ... survival outcomes for women who do get breast cancer, 2800 BC women were diagnosed with the disease in 2009. News New ...
News January/February 2010
Since 31 January 2009, every birthing hospital in BC has been providing new parents with the Period of PURPLE ... in 10 languages.  Since every family having a new baby in BC receives these program components, family practice ... Mammen, Ronald G. Barr, MD Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome BC BC Children’s Hospital News New shaken baby program ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jennifer M. Wilson, MD, FRCPC, May 2010
... can all be seen when looking at lung transplantation in BC today.  It is essential for those caring for patients ... the number of transplants that can be performed in BC and Canada is limited by the relatively small cadaveric ... Columbia The Lung Transplant Program coordinated through BC Transplant is one of five programs across Canada. Based in ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2010
... or mail it (BCMJ 115-1665 West Broadway, Vancouver BC V6J 5A4). E-mail journal@bcma.bc.ca . E-mail us and we’ll send you a blank MS Word ... return by mail BCMJ  115-1665 West Broad­way Vancouver BC V6J 5A4 Proust for Physicians Proust questionnaire: David ...
News November 2010
... membership in good standing in the BCMA, the CMA, and the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia. ... Committee, #115–1665 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC V6J 5A4 by 30 November 2010. CMA Honorary Membership The ... Committee, #115–1665 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC V6J 5A4 by 30 November 2010. Dr David M. Bachop Gold Medal ...
News / BY: Jeremy Daniels, March 2010
... patients.  The book should also likely be accessible to BC doctors’ patients, as it is written at approximately a ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Jennifer Leyen, May 2010
... level of clinical support and case management services to BC’s most seriously in­jured workers. Most workers injured ... WorkSafeBC Special Care Services offers enhanced care for BC’s most seriously injured workers ...