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Physician Spotlight / BY: Pamela Verma, BSc, May 2010
... 14 years of age, I chose to study sciences and completed my master’s in pathology. At 16 I was not old enough to ... medical school in India, so I moved to Canada to continue my studies. What influenced your decision to come to Canada? ... is vital. I’m excited that Royal Columbian, my own hospital, will now have students so I can get more involved ...
ICBC / BY: Laura Jensen, MD, May 2010
... are the days when you could see an order for AOL in the hospital chart. You don’t know what AOL stands for? In that ... manner. ICBC medical community liaison position This is my last article for the BCMJ and I thank those of you who ... The in­teraction has added a positive dimension to my role.  The position of ICBC medical community liaison is ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ellamae Stadnick MD, MSc, FRCPC, May 2010
... recipients.  On average patients spend 2 weeks in the hospital after transplantation, including 3 to 5 days in the ... be referred to the Pre-Transplant Clinic at St. Paul’s Hospital ( Table 1 ). Patients are required to undergo a ... or cyclosporine), and a purine synthesis inhibitor such as my­cophenolate mofetil.[ 4 ] In the absence of rejection, ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD June 2010
... kind of nuisance. I’m talking about being a nuisance to my health authority. I have been suspicious for a while now that my authority would rather I didn’t exist. Think about it. ... perfect fiscal dream world would be a virtual web-based hospital. Virtual patients wouldn’t take up real beds, ...
Letters / BY: Jim Battershill, MD October 2010
One hears frequently through the press about nosocomial (hospital) or iatrogenic (doctor-induced) diseases these days. ... cause for horror and embarrassment by all the staff of the hospital. One of my fondest memories is of practical advice such as “the ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG July/August 2010
In my regular encounters with medical students during their ... general level of maturity and accomplishment. Like most of my contemporaries, I am extremely grateful that I entered ... let us park in the “patients only” section of the hospital car park. Life is so unfair. —TCR Editorials How ...
News&Notes / BY: Eugene Leduc, MD April 2010
“If your hospital is at sea level on the equator, expect to operate at ... doctors on the South Pacific island of Tanna, Vanuatu, my wife and I found the quotation above to be quite an ... right away to see a woman with a postpartum hemorrhage.  My wife Lisa, still in her wet swimsuit, jumped into the ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD October 2010
... He ate up interns and residents at Vancouver General Hospital and Shaughnessy Veteran Hospital every morning for ... used today. As a GP in Williams Lake, I re­ferred most of my difficult cases to Hammy or Hec. In 1961, on a Tuesday (my day off) in May, I was called to go to One-Eyed Lake in ...
News&Notes / BY: Jeremy Smith, May 2010
... and out of the servers to do the backup. I had to take off my rings because the heat could burn my fingers through my rings if I accidentally touched a wire. ... on the COSTAR system developed at Brig­ham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Over the years it was advanc­ed to ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2010
... a doctor? I know you have health care in your family. Yes, my father is a retired pediatrician and my mother was a nurse, and her father a GP/surgeon in ... first job at age 15 was as a janitor in the Royal Jubilee Hospital operating rooms. I was drawn to medicine because it ...