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Letters December 2014
We were disappointed to read Dr Trusler’s article regarding novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) for ... Ingelheim. This letter was submitted to the  BC Medical Journal  prior to receiving the grant. Dr Yip ...
Letters / BY: Murray McFadden, MD, March 2014
... process ( BCMJ 2013;55:390-393 ). Not mentioned in your article is the fact that Ontario has core audit values ... 2010[ 3 ] as a result of Justice Cory’s report,[ 4 ] “Medical Audit Practice in Ontario.” That high-level and ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Claire Campion Wright, BSc, January/February 2014
... recognizing his long-term contributions to medicine and medical politics. His career in medicine took him to the ... from there. During the Vietnam War, Dr Terwiel read an article in the Medical Tribune extoling the US presence in ... he disagreed on an issue, Dr Terwiel published a rebuttal article. A week after his article was published his ...
News April 2014
The  BC Medical Journal  is pleased to announce Ms Laura Budd as the winner of the J.H. MacDermot Prize for 2013 for her article, “Physician tweet thyself: A guide for integrating ... into medical practice” ( BCMJ  2013;55:38-40 ). In her article, Ms Budd discusses the risks and benefits to using ...
MDs To Be / BY: Greg Costello, MD January/February 2014
... sites of the University of British Columbia’s Medical Undergraduate Program, people are generally focused ... receive when learning somewhere other than the traditional medical boot camps of Vancouver. All of these issues are ... coordinator) for their assistance in writing this article. I am also especially grateful for the support of the ...
Letters / BY: John Dale, MD, April 2014
... more coverage in the media and needs more from within the medical profession as well. His thoughtful letter does, ... Dr Donkin’s factual and other logical errors. First, the article written by Dr Pereira in  Current Oncology [ 1 ] is ... journal does not guarantee factual rigidity. A follow-up article[ 2 ] in the same journal debunks his claims in great ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC April 2014
... dermatitis. Case data A 9-year-old boy presented to a medical clinic in Kelowna in the summer of 2013. Aside from a ... VZV vaccine before entering kindergarten. Otherwise, his medical history was unremarkable. Upon examination, the child ... Competing interests None declared. Acknowledgment This article is dedicated to the late Dr Peter Middleton, who made ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) May 2014
... is because it’s being talked about at all levels (this article does not discuss physician-assisted death, currently ... we realize there are challenges for doctors. Early in our medical education we associate patient survival with success, ...
Letters / BY: Keith J. White, MD March 2014
Thank you to Dr McFadden for his comments on the article which appeared in the  BCMJ , Issue: Vol. 55. No. 8, ... Committee (POPC). This is the second printing of this article in the  BCMJ .  The POPC would like to clarify ... structures in BC. BC structures include: –    Having medical inspectors and audit hearing panel members who are ...
News&Notes / BY: Benjamin Brzezynski, MA, November 2014
While doctors become medical professionals by training, they become business ... lawyers, administrators, and countless others. Unlike medical decisions, which follow a model of cause and effect, ... consider furthering your skills. The sources cited in this article make for excellent introductory reading, and many ...