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Clinical Articles / BY: Stephen Wheeler, MD October 2009
... less subject to turbulence. Summary Physicians and other health professionals in British Columbia who provide care to ...
News / BY: Ian Pike, PhD December 2009
... direct costs. They are one of the largest burdens on our health care system, consuming funds that could be used elsewhere to address other critical health care issues. Visit preventable.ca, or e-mail  ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD March 2009
... hours ensuring that scope of practice expansion for other health providers is done in a reasonable way; chair of the ...
News May 2009
... show that patients on home hemodialysis have better health outcomes than patients who visit clinics for their ...
News / BY: S. William A. Gunn, FRCSC, July/August 2009
by John Farley Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, & the Cold War . By John Farley. ... stormy but always wise stewardship of the nascent World Health Organization (WHO). Chisholm’s retirement years were ... a plethora of bibliography,  Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, & the Cold War  is a valid contribution ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD October 2009
... that we are left with one thought only—it will be bad. Health Canada, BC’s Public Health Office, the BC Centre for Disease Control and our health authorities have released guidelines for citizens to ...
MDs To Be / BY: Gavin Stuart, MD, Dean, UBC Faculty of Medicine, April 2009
... medical students: Working toward cultural competency in health care.” Here is his commentary.  —ED Aspects of ... a recognition of how racial/ethnic differences can affect health care delivery. In the most recent Accreditation Report ...
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 ...