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Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2009
... did you originally get into medicine? As a young man in my 20s, I was teaching school in a small town in central Alberta, and I got to know my GP, Dr Hoffman. I had tremendous respect for him, for what ... doing a general rotating internship at the Calgary General Hospital, I embarked on the 4-year O&G residency.  About 6 ...
Letters / BY: Geoffrey Ainsworth, MD December 2009
... working as an in-patient psychiatrist at BC Children’s Hospital. On page 349 the authors state, “However, to date, ... compromise, aspiration of secretions, or vomiting” so my patient did not fulfill those criteria. I think this ...
Letters / BY: Ivor McMahen, MD, June 2009
... patient in front of me talking about her depression while my computer, which contains the patient data showing she is ... AC ratio; securely transmits an electronic requisition in my name to the appropriate lab facility; and prints a ... implementation. Isn’t this all something like hiring a hospital ad­ministrator without realizing he only speaks, ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, May 2009
... of remote access to the EMR, particularly from within hospital networks. • An economic model that enables ... “I have spent the last year creating the templates in my EMR to capture the right data for my most common types of visits, and from that to ...
Back Page / BY: Maggie Watt, MD, CCFP, September 2009
... Pankratz’s story reminded me of the best medical advice my father (a retired orthopaedic surgeon) passed on to me: ... clothes off and examine them!”  This statement rings in my mind daily as I see patients and am tempted to save time ... was born by elective cesarean section in my own community hospital in Duncan. What could be difficult about that? Get ...
Obituaries / BY: Barry Turchen, MD January/February 2009
... Society and chief of pathology services at MSA General Hospital. He was a scholarly man with an outstanding list of ... was a brilliant pathologist and respected leader. Our new hospital in Abbotsford was made possible in no small part ... would give me one of his wonderful smiles or simply touch my hand to let me know how he felt. Joe’s body has left us, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC April 2009
... was reported by Munn and colleagues at BC’s Children’s Hospital, where a child was found to have acute ... alternatives commonly include erythromycin, clarithro­my­cin, and azithromycin. Clindamycin may be employed to ... was very low. For instance, at BC’s Children’s Hospital, we determined the frequency of such resistance to ...
Premise / BY: Alexandra Tcheremenska-Greenhill, MD, June 2009
... to our identity as a profession. The main focus of my talk will be to reflect on how Osler’s work can ... welcome from the local medical community. I have to thank my colleagues, many of whom are present tonight, for all of ... where he became the first chief of staff at Johns Hopkins Hospital and, in partnership with three other physicians, he ...
Letters / BY: Judi Vriend Matthews, May 2009
... I related to a retired doctor an incident that happened to my dad, and he suggested I write to the BC Medical Journal about the situation. My dad was a senior with a brilliant mind and full hearing, ... age 14 and totally blind by age 58. When he went into the hospital for heart surgery he had some experiences that could ...
News / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2009
... Godwin spent his cardiology career at the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster.  As I spent my rotating internship at RCH, I have a special interest in ... I know he’s not dead yet as I recently saw him walk past my office in Langley. Dr Godwin was always a practical, ...