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Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB May 2010
... have failed to anticipate the need for evolution in our health system. While many may criticize President Obama’s health reforms in the US (recent polls show only 37% ... the enormous cost of “defensive medicine” forced on health workers and institutions by the malpractice issue ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2010
... of representatives from the division, the Ministry of Health, and the health region.  Problems are brought forward by all parties ... can be formed between physicians, the government, and health regions. Speaking of which, my health region recently ...
President's Comment / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD October 2010
... our job if we didn’t speak up on behalf of the brain health of Canadians. Critics have wondered (somewhat ... expert opinion to government about the risks to brain health, if and when government de­cides to consider the ...
News&Notes / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, December 2010
... and fortune but to humiliation and poverty. Vancouver’s health: Diagnostic speculation The medical record of the ... entire voyage, and the men arrived home in general good health. Unfortunately the same could not be said for Captain ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ali Zentner, MD, FRCPC, Diplomate ABOM April 2010
... of EBM in the areas of preventive medicine and public health.  But Mary Lasker, a philanthro­pist and health policy advocate, was not a member of the medical ... and she believed that the VA study revealed a major public health problem that should and could be addressed.  She ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Tom Kosatsky, MD, MPH June 2010
... during the same period, the Fraser and Vancouver Coastal health authorities registered 455 deaths (from all causes and ... BCCDC’s National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health has information on personal heat protection geared to both clinicians and public health physicians ( www.ncceh.ca ). Two informative articles ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2010
... in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), physician health, and medical-fitness-to-drive issues. He graduated ... 30 years, including the information technology, physician health, and emergency medical services committees, as well as ... particularly meaningful since recovering from some major health challenges in 2008. I’m also doing a series of swim ...
News November 2010
... legislative and other political activities in support of health care. The award will consist of a $2000 donation to a ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD March 2009
... de­signed to improve services to injured workers, health care providers, and employers. As WorkSafeBC receives ... the claim, and, in most cases, pay worker benefits and health care provider billings. The CMS system allows ... 11 that are already available in the forms section of the Health Care Providers pages of the WorkSafeBC web site, ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, May 2009
... community just didn’t find the value in EMRs until the health au­thority was able to provide the diagnostic and ...