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Obituaries / BY: Sumitra Robertson, BA November 2024
... managed to frighten the cougar away. The boy was rushed to BC Children’s Hospital for further care, and his arm was ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD January/February 2024
... to do the work at hand. An estimated 1 million people in BC do not have a family physician. An article in the ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC April 2024
... to making things better, together. As part of Doctors of BC’s new 5-year strategic plan, we have made it our mission to “support BC’s doctors to be leaders in delivering and improving ... Ministry of Health via the Tariff Committee, Doctors of BC was able to deliver on major changes that will help reduce ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Patrick Wong October 2024
... PhD Senior Analyst (Advocacy Operations), Doctors of BC WorkSafeBC Tips for billing Expedited Comprehensive ...
Letters / BY: Michelle Scheepers, MBCHB, FRCPC, MBA December 2024
... efficiency. But anesthesia assistants are not regulated in BC. A regulatory framework would define their scope of ... assistants’ practices across the country showed that BC is an outlier with regard to governance.[ 1 ] The primary ... Assistant, Royal Inland Hospital, Kamloops Vice-President, BC Society of Anesthesia Assistants —Yvonne Timewell, BSc, ...
Letters / BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC March 2024
... Vancouver This letter was submitted in response to “BC has the tools to address the drug poisoning emergency. Do ... to use them?” Read the author’s response in “Re: BC has the tools to address the drug poisoning emergency. Author replies.” Letters Re: BC has the tools to address the drug poisoning emergency (1) ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC May 2024
... prioritize patient access. But Canada—and specifically BC—lags behind many jurisdictions in areas such as hospital ... for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nation. BC has even less—a mere 1.95 hospital beds per 1000 people. ... these issues through significant investments. Doctors of BC continues to raise this concern. In the 2011 BC Medical ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jia Hu, MD, MSc, CCFP, FRCPC November 2024
... 10.1% of Canadian households faced core housing need, with BC having the highest provincial rate, at 13.4%.[ 1 ] There ... 2 ] The 2021 census showed that 25.5% of people in BC spend more than 30% of their income on housing, the ... contributed to mortality and morbidity experienced during BC’s 2021 heat dome and other extreme temperature events. ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Abdullah Alenezi, MD, FRCPC June 2024
... and is not available in the public health care system in BC, though it is offered in some private facilities. ... not currently offered in the public health care system in BC and is actively under clinical investigation.[ 16 ] ... practitioners, where these therapies are available in BC. Weight-bearing knee radiographs are very helpful for ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC September 2024
... system that safely meets the needs of Indigenous people in BC. Many of us remember when the last Indian hospital in BC closed in 1970. These were hospitals created for the ... must become a key priority and a foundational principle in BC’s health care system. However, such significant change ...