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News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS September 2005
... achievements in clinical practice, teaching, research, and health advocacy include setting up BC’s first blood bank in ... undergraduate and postgraduate students, and has been a health advocate for HIV awareness, most notably, serving as a ... times. Midwifery services are covered under the provincial health plan. Book review Clio in the Clinic.  Edited by ...
Letters / BY: Donald J. Young, MD December 2005
... BCMA’s support of a strong, effective, publicly funded health care system. This is indeed the BCMA’s position and ... The BCMA has always supported the inclusion of private health care providers in the delivery of publicly paid for ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS March 2005
... of online dermatology information for physicians and other health care professionals. The web site is intended to be an ... which they call a “one-stop stop for health-care professionals to get blood transfusion ... about blood and blood components and blood transfusion to health care professionals. In consultation with hospital ...
President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD July/August 2005
... centrally administered available amount, safeguarding our health care system from devolved envelope funding to regional health authorities. Unfortunately, the government has sent ... prohibiting private insurance to pay for publicly funded health services in some instances can jeopardize the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Fred Bass, MD, DSc October 2005
... What we in the Society for Clinical Preventive Health Care (formerly the BC Doctors’ Stop-Smoking Program) ... this when front-line medical care is so overburdened? Some health care decision-makers recognize the value of proven ... should do so in ways that will enhance all of primary health care practice. This includes merging preventive ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Pierre Leichner, MD, FRCPC January/February 2005
... “‘No I can’t be your…’: Boundary issues for health care professionals” ). Stages of Change from the ... at and the caregiver’s expectations ( Figure 2 ). Most health care professionals are trained to prescribe Action ... Motivational Enhancement Interviewing principles allows health care professionals to develop therapeutic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP May 2005
... discussions, commissions, and inquiries about Canada’s health care system is that “better management is required, not more money.” Health care planners and decision-makers are increasingly ... Studies have also shown that rural individuals utilize health services less often than their urban counterparts, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nancy Craven, MD, CCFP July/August 2005
... or patient flow sheet, such as the one available from BC Health Services. Both the Vancouver Island Kidney Care Initiative and the Fraser Health Kidney Care Initiative have developed new ... kidney disease to become actively involved in their own health care and can be successfully integrated into the ...
President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD November 2005
... the BCMA supports as it meets its mandate to advance the health and well-being of patients as well as the working ... to consult with the BCMA on key issues affecting health care in the province. The BCMA continues to advocate ... role for physicians in the management and reform of the health care system. The BCMA believes that physicians must ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ian L. Mitchell, MD, FRCP March 2005
... rather than urgent/emergent basis. Routine, in our current health care system, may mean waiting for 3 months for a ...