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President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD June 2009
This will be my last Comment as your president. During this past year I ... there have been efforts by many groups to enhance green hospital policies and the greening of physicians’ offices. ...
Letters / BY: John de Couto, MD, October 2009
... along conventional lines with primary obstetrics care, hospital care including serving orphaned patients on rota for ... called “doctor of the day,” and so forth. I now serve my patients out of a reputable walk-in organization and see ... only reveals to me true ignorance. I have now brought my patients and practice to merge into an established walk-in ...
Letters / BY: Bernie Littlejohn, September 2009
... off by something inadequate and time consuming. As an ex-hospital board member I also remember the implementation ... a psychiatric expert system just as I was assembling my first personal computer in 1977.  Later on, Dr Long hired ... certainly time that you had such a useful system. I hope my comments are useful. —Bernie Littlejohn Williams Lake ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD May 2009
A few months ago I attended my 30-year medical school reunion. Our class of 65 ... but not yet. The patient still has the last say. My hope is that we continue to teach good physical ... wide variety of clinical conditions. There are now, in the hospital I work in, preprinted orders for the management of ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2009
... thoracic, vascular, and neurosurgery.  As a result, my patient spent an entire day at the hospital for a pre-admission appointment, which consisted of ... blood work, an ECG, radiographs, and various assessments. My patient works in the health care field and he is a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tarek Khalil, MPH, MD, MCFP, July/August 2009
... less well in objective structured clinical examinations. My coauthor and I have direct experience of the enhancement ... Columbia, I was a practitioner in Egypt for 13 years. My training in communication skills with JB resulted in ... director) of the Department of Psychiatry at Richmond Hospital, British Columbia. ...
Premise / BY: E. Pankratz, MD, January/February 2009
... instances the care of other patients is at best mediocre. My experience differs from that of Dr Richardson in that I knew within about 6 hours what my diagnosis was, but relaying this to the emergency doc was ... succession: the head nurse came and saw me and called the hospital doctor, who was there very quickly, and who in turn ...
Letters December 2009
... of the BCMJ [ 51:342-344 ]. Thank you for publishing it. My reaction was associated with the following thoughts. The ... each brought convincing evidence of a new reality. It is my opinion that the evidence pendulum has moved too far ... is that this concept has been hijacked by governments, hospital adminis­trators, and the pharmaceutical and ...
Obituaries / BY: Larry Barzelai, MD, June 2009
... had a thriving office practice, looked after patients in hospital, did surgical assists, and made frequent house ... facilities. His main connection was with St. Vincent’s Hospital in Vancouver, which he served in many capacities. He ... little-known country of Namibia and could get excited when my mother’s cruise ship stopped there in Walvis Bay. He ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB June 2009
... course, beyond. I grew up in South Africa. I did not see my mother have to juggle too much (I love you, Mother). Many ... who did all the cleaning, cooking, washing, and ironing. My parents have had the same housekeeper for over 30 years. ... few years ago, one Mother’s Day, I was on my way to the hospital to do ward rounds. As I drove past a cemetery, I ...