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Back Page / BY: Ralph Jones, MD October 2013
My friends and colleagues are retiring with generous pensions ... problem in health care, not the solution. What happened to my idealistic young friends? I remember the excitement and ... rural practice, 20 additional years of obstetrics, and the hospital work that I continue to do. Medical politics and ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2013
... I was walking toward the physicians’ entrance at my local hospital. I could have been a visitor but I did have a stethoscope around my neck. The individual making this request was leaning ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) June 2013
... have an opportunity to make a lasting impact. Throughout my life I’ve seen the difference that volunteering efforts ... Volunteering has been ingrain­ed in me since I was small. My parents taught me and my siblings many lessons: right from ... my time as president of the medical staff and multiple hospital committees, as well as at the BCMA.  But a ...
News May 2013
... Chronic Disease Program (CCDP) located at BC Wo­men’s Hospital and Health Centre is now accepting patient ... assists people with fi­bro­myalgia, myalgic encephalo­my­elitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, and tick-borne ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB September 2013
... training drills for those codes. I was initiated into the hospital emergency code system and emergency drills soon ... I was responding to. They all had a good chuckle at my expense (except the patient).  Recently, a new code has ... this stood for “over capacity protocol.” This piqued my curiosity, so I had to ask what this was about. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alison Granger-Brown, MA, December 2012
... and identity: Road to Re­covery for Schizophrenia; My Story and My Addiction; Growing Towards a Happy Balance; The Medicine ... Children and Family Development (MCFD), and BC Women’s Hospital’s Fir Square Combined Care Unit led to an infant ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2012
... This message flash­ed on the computer screen at the hospital when I tried to log on.  It is a little like asking ... do you want to die now?” Why would I want to change my password early and why 10 days? Why not ask me if I want ... medical information, but why do I have to change my password and why can’t I use any of my previous 10 ...
Obituaries / BY: R. John Hancock, MD, April 2012
... heart I wish to respectfully advise of the passing of my father, Dr Ronald J. Hancock, a general surgeon in ... of the BC Surgical Society, head of surgery at Shaughnessy Hospital, and clinical professor of surgery at UBC, where he ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Marshall Dahl, MD, PhD, FRCPC July/August 2012
... the University of British Columbia and Vancouver General Hospital. He served as president of the BCMA from 2000 to ... What do you consider your greatest achievement? My wonderful daughter. What is your idea of perfect ... What is your most marked characteristic? I just asked my wife. She says it is intellectual curiosity. What do you ...
News&Notes / BY: J.C.A. Morrant, MBBS, DObst, RCOG, DPM, FRCPC, March 2012
... agreed: “[it was] the most important experience of my professional life.” He had been fascinated by dye since ... septicemia. Streptococci caused four of the most lethal hospital diseases: cellulitis, ery­si­pelas, wound ... infections, and puerperal fever, all mainly spread by the hospital staff. From the days of the powdered wig and ...