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WorkSafeBC / BY: Andrew Montgomerie, June 2010
... the Vancouver area, call 604 231-8888; from elsewhere in BC, call toll free 1 888 967-5377. Training for MOAs and ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD October 2010
... manner, a good teacher, and the football doc for the BC Lions professional football club.  Hammy was a tall, ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD January/February 2010
... have been created to achieve this lofty goal: IMPACT BC, 2010 Legacies Now, and ActNow BC.  The BCMA’s Athletic and Recreation Committee has been working with ActNow BC providing pedometers to school children, to physicians and ...
News May 2010
A new, integrated approach to medical care developed by the BC Renal Agency is providing patients with ad­vanced kidney ... es­tablished as the result of a study conducted by the BC Renal Agency, which revealed that more comprehensive ...
News September 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 ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC November 2010
... that triggered the rapid expansion that has resulted in BC’s leading position in this field.  The first patients ... first described in 1978.[ 17 ] Several other cities in BC now have dialysis units and train patients to treat ... later by St. Paul’s.  Several hundred patients in BC are now dialyzing themselves independently at home; about ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Diana June King, March 2010
In November 2009, we lost a giant of BC medicine. Dr Don Rix has left behind a legacy of ...   Painting by Edgardo Lantin, courtesy of BC Cancer Agency Despite an amazing array of interests and ... backwards to prove we were as good as any other lab in BC. If we were required to run a quality check every 10 ...
News / BY: Bakul Dalal, MD, June 2010
The Guidelines and Protocols Committee of BC (GPAC) considers feedback from BC physicians regarding the draft guideline documents before ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD October 2010
... for food and beverage sales in public schools in BC.  These were developed with registered dietitians and ...
News December 2010
... Program at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) and the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) have begun a campaign to reduce deaths from ovarian cancer.  They are asking all BC gynecologists to change surgical practice to fully remove ... the Ovarian Cancer Research Program at VGH and BCCA. The BC research team and others have recently discovered that the ...