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President's Comment / BY: Joshua Greggain, MD November 2023
... centre as we navigate and help build the future of BC’s health care system. We need those who can lead with humility ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Rohit Vijh, MD, MPH, CCFP January/February 2023
... and intermixing of different influenza strains.[ 4 ] Human health risk is currently considered to be low. However, if ... of avian influenza viruses in humans enables public health action to detect and control potential human-to-human ... 5 ] Who to test for avian influenza and report to public health Clinicians should have a low threshold for testing ...
MDs To Be / BY: Samantha Gibbon, BSc April 2023
... financial burden, and ultimately failing and fractured health. My role throughout the experience was that of ... family truly have become statistics of tragedy, their health marred by the trauma of the situation and its ... patients and their families. I witnessed several health concerns in my Indigenous community members that ...
Obituaries / BY: Nis Schmidt, MD October 2023
... be missed is almost trite. We need more like him in our health care system. —Nis Schmidt, MD Vancouver Obituaries ...
Letters / BY: Petra Wildgoose, MD, CCFP, MPH December 2023
... early-onset colorectal cancer requires the vigilance of health care providers.” Diagnosis cannot depend strictly on the vigilance of health care providers when 59% of the population does not ... to the primary care provider.[ 1 , 2 ] Vigilance of health care providers assumes that providers are educated on ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David A. McVea, MD, PhD March 2023
Poisonings have a significant impact on the health of people in BC. In 2022, there were more than 2000 ... in the management of poisonings for the public and health care providers. Although there are limited Canadian ... $1 spent on poison control centres saves over $13 in other health care costs.[ 2 ] The BC Drug and Poison Information ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Anton R. Miller, MBChB, FRCPC June 2023
... ] Patient navigation has emerged as a useful strategy in health care and is relevant to most forms of complex care, ... supports and services With support from the Kids Brain Health Network, work to date has examined how navigation ... which included representation from the affiliated academic health centre, government (BC Ministry of Children and Family ...
News June 2023
... contraception service, BC residents with a Personal Health Number can visit a pharmacy in person or call to ... Some patients may also be advised to see another health care provider if the condition is deemed nonminor or ...   For health professionals: ...
News September 2023
... Teams (CMAT)—a disaster-relief organization made up of health professionals who volunteer to assist victims of ... met, Dr Chao, a primary care physician at UBC’s Student Health Clinic, also happened to be deployed on the same CMAT ... to return to Ukraine to do research on the country’s health care system to try to understand how it has remained ...
News January/February 2023
... Columbia’s Okanagan campus. She has been teaching sexual health education with Vancouver Coastal Health’s BLUSH program for about a year and helped write ...