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Editorials / BY: Adeera Levin, MD, FRCPC July/August 2005
... for cardiovascular disease and consume more hospital and health care resources than those with normal kidney function. ... internists, endocrinologists, and the Ministry of Health chronic disease management group have collaborated to ... together to ensure the best patient outcomes. Few other health care systems have embarked on such a comprehensive ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS November 2005
... teams are available through referral to the community health units, or specialty geriatric programs if more complex ... placement process, referral to the appropriate community health unit is needed. There are many issues about the ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG January/February 2005
... of civility in society is to emphasize civility within the health care team. I have written here before (thank you, ... you are too kind) about the importance of nurses to the health and well-being of physicians as well as patients. They ... doctors demonstrably show respect for all members of the health care team, but especially nurses, then our less-civil ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP May 2005
... workers, employers, and physicians, along with other health care providers, to develop and implement appropriate ... about the WCB’s rehabilitation programs and other health care benefits. Billing code for telephone ...
Letters / BY: Lloyd Westby, MD September 2005
... April 2005 entitled, “BC’s technologically challenged health care system” (BCMJ 2005;47[3]:128). His points are ... very outdated MediTech software system that the Interior Health Authority is continuing to pour millions of dollars ... understand the current state of information technology in health care in British Columbia (and the rest of Canada) in ...
Letters / BY: Ken Bassett, MD, PhD December 2005
... clinical trial findings. —Ken Bassett, MD  Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, UBC General Practice, ... UBC —Keith Chambers, MD Associate Clinical Professor Health Care and Epidemiology, UBC Clinical Epidemiologist, ...
President's Comment / BY: Jack Burak, MD March 2005
... best suited to represent them and govern this province. Health care will certainly be included in the party platforms ... number of physicians who will want to ensure that certain health care issues are effectively debated among the various politicians. Given that health care is the number one issue for British Columbians, ...
Obituaries / BY: Robert Hill, BMBCh July/August 2005
... were based at the time. He was on the active staff at the Health Centre for Children in the VGH and at the old ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG October 2005
... It used to be that when politicians intoned “no two-tier health care” I would assume that they were simply saying ... or my family, and you demonstrably affect my cardiac health. But underlying all this is the cynical understanding ... not be prepared to sit idly by if it was his or her own health, or the health of a loved one, that was subject to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jorge L. Pinzon, MD, FRCPC, FAAP, FSAM January/February 2005
... genetic potential (based on mid-parental height), general health status of the adolescent, length of chronic ... by obtaining a detailed clinical history including health risk behaviors and, more specifically, sexuality ... adolescents with bulimia nervosa seem to engage in more health risk-taking behaviors than females with anorexia ...