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Letters / BY: Ivor McMahen, MD, June 2009
... could be a long time coming. I practise in the Interior Health Authority, which means that in my community the ... life is to serve the needs of the patients and frontline health care providers, not, as it too often seems, the other ...
News / BY: Christopher J.D. Wallis, September 2009
... Jamnicky, a urology clinic coordinator at the University Health Network in Toronto, and Dr Robert Nam, a University of ... cancer for homosexual men are worthwhile reading for all health care providers who care for men with prostate ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD December 2009
... The first change was bringing the CPSBC under the Health Professions Act in June 2009, by which we are now ... have been a common theme in almost all Western hemisphere health care legislative reforms. However, what constitutes a ... 25 patients, 8 physician colleagues, and 8 nonphysician health care workers. Getting back to my friend who is about ...
Letters March 2009
... test. A doctor is supposed to help maintain a patient’s health, and a doctor needs the patient’s trust to do so. ... A doctor’s job is to maintain his or her patient’s health. The Superintendant of Motor Vehicles’ job is to ...
Letters / BY: Nigel J. Murray, MD, May 2009
... deficit in the number of physicians and, currently, Fraser Health needs an additional 150 physicians.[ 1 ] It is time to ... and meet the projected need for physicians in BC. Fraser Health alone will require an additional 600 physicians by 2013.[ 1 ] The World Health Organization identified the new competencies required ...
Letters / BY: Pamela Verma, BSc, July/August 2009
... ethics, medical an­thropology, epidemiology, public health, and international health. The  UBCMJ  also features original artwork and ...
News October 2009
... courage or the endurance of hardship in the promotion of health or the saving of life; or advancing the humanitarian ... to the advancement of medical research, medical education, health care organization, or health education of the public; service to the people of ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, April 2009
... linking central Vancouver Island physicians with mental health and addiction resources for patients through a new, ... Directory (CHARD) will expand across BC and include other health specialties. “A system like CHARD promises ... care provider, government has access to information for health system planning, and GPs and their staff have a list ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Michael L. Rekart, MD, DTM&H, MHSc June 2009
... effectiveness in routine, front-line usage at public health clinics that serve marginalized populations such as ... the STI/HIV Prevention and Control Division to the public health community, physicians, and clinics serving populations ... will continue to be filled as requested. The medical health officers of BC have given their support to this ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Samir K. Sinha, MD, DPhil, FRCPC, September 2009
... underway will place unprecedented pressure on the Canadian health care system.  Although some commentators have warned ... this aging demographic will pose for our current health care delivery systems. Older adults drive health service utilization and health costs in Canada. Older ...