Clinical Articles /
BY: Maria Corral, MD, FRCPC
April 2005
... with bright light therapy in the BC Reproductive Mental Health (BCRMH) program. Improvement with this treatment for ...
Letters /
BY: Peter Grantham, MD
July/August 2005
... Quality Improvement Days (PQIDs). It seems the health care system is currently having some difficulty ... difficult and unquantifiable stuff like school and public health education, societal lifestyle and expectation change, ...
News /
BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP
October 2005
In August Dr James C. Hogg, a researcher at Providence Health Care’s iCAPTURE Centre, was appointed as an Officer ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Ronald S. Manley, PhD, RPsych
January/February 2005
... She will wonder what will happen in treatment and what the health care professionals will be like. The patient may also ... family. We have found that a powerful strategy is for the health care professional to frame the discussion in emotional ... patient should be encouraged to be an informed consumer of health care. The physician may need to engage in appropriate ...
Editorials /
BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD
May 2005
... of 16 members of whom 14 were appointed by the Minister of Health. Bylaws are enforceable in law. Bylaws must be ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jay Draper
July/August 2005
... there was a lot of discussion of private and public health care and all the surrounding implications, questions, ... will be more collaborative in its approach to addressing health care issues, and in its dealings with the physicians ... to work with us to ensure a healthy population, a dynamic health care system, and a vibrant medical profession. We have ...
President's Comment /
BY: Michael Golbey, MD
December 2005
... shortages in medical school training, (not to mention the health care system as a whole), and not enough space in this ...
Editorials /
BY: James A. Wilson, MD
March 2004
... The application challenges the ability of the Canada Health Act to prevent Canadian citizens from obtaining private health care insurance that covers the cost of privately provided health care in this country. In 1996 Dr Jacques Chaoulli and ...
Clinical Articles
October 2004
... transmitted disease (STD) guidelines were published by Health Canada in 1998. [1] In 2002 and 2003, the STD/AIDS ... the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and the Sexual Health and Sexually Transmitted Infections Section of the Division of Community Acquired Infections Health Canada, collaborated on a study to assess current ...
Editorials /
BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC
June 2004
... and beyond.”—Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story Access to health care, especially for patients living in rural and ... been brought into sharper focus over the last few years by health professionals, patients, organizations involved in health care delivery and management, and all levels of ...