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President's Comment / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD October 2010
... The work is varied and can change on very short notice. My practice is compressed into 2 days per week with the remaining time spent at the BCMA office. My patients and my office assistant, Rosemary, have been very ... of the assessment patients receive when they present in BC hospital emergency departments after traumatic brain ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Paul K.B. Dagg, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2010
... both to our facility for treatment, and back to their home hospital once they have stabilized or improved. As a result ... treated depressive disorder, returning to his or her home hospital prior to discharge, perhaps to assume a responsible ... that we do need to make.  The article in the BCMJ in my opinion adds little clarity and only feeds into ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD June 2010
The university says I am. My job description, such as it is, insists I am. My CV documents the talks and seminars that I have given over ... though it affects the clinical deliverables and the hospital resources required. There is no unique value ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2010
... but when put together in the right proportions it makes up my hospital. It is a very generic building, but I have a ... think. What I find most amazing is that the population in my community has grown by 50% and my hospital has been able ...
MDs To Be / BY: A. Daniel Malebranche, MSc, MD, January/February 2010
... … and languages It was June 2008. I had finished my last clinical exam and was on the way to Zurich, ... school. I had the special privilege of learning how a hospital was managed in a European country. It was a surgical ... station was general surgery. I was advised by one of my colleagues to study well before entering the operating ...
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, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Albert W. Chan, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2009
... the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Royal Columbian Hospital starting in July 2005. Patients who had symptomatic ... who required urgent cardiac surgery were kept in the hospital until surgery and clopidogrel was withheld from ... Acknowledgments I appreciate the assistance of my colleagues Dr Kennely Ho (Department of Neuroscience, ...
Back Page / BY: Graham C. Fraser, FRCS, FACS April 2009
... training are spiritedly scrutinized. However, in my opinion not enough attention or print is devoted to the ... are no longer with us, but they most certainly live on in my fond memory. In the mid-1960s I was appointed, to no small ... and resident assistant surgeon at the world-renowned Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street in London. ...