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Letters / BY: Caroline Penn, MD December 2003
... clinic that assesses travelers for destination-specific health risks and provides them with appropriate advice, ...
Letters / BY: Tom Pickles, MD, FRCPC June 2003
... Additionally, LHRHa patients felt that their overall health was not as good, and they believed they were not free ...
Letters / BY: Ronald Cridland, MD March 2003
... living in the US for 5 years, I purchased catastrophic health insurance for $2000 per year and found that more ... ideas such as this. If we are truly going to re-evaluate health care in this country, we need to look at every option ...
Letters / BY: Dorothy M. Goresky, MD November 2003
... for 15 years after 23 years of practice at the Student Health Service of UBC, I couldn’t agree more with this ...
Letters / BY: Ralph Jones, MD May 2003
... explaining that in BC there existed an extensive public health and education system. Patients could and should attend ... doctors got on with doctoring. Since arriving in BC my health unit seems to be otherwise too preoccupied to fulfill ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2003
... on-call agreement between the BCMA and the BC Ministry of Health (MOH).  It turns out that the actual planning to ... to doctors providing on-call for institutions or for those health regions that require doctors to be on call for some of ... communities, and the communities in turn will feel the health care needs of their residents are optimized.  For all ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Gillian A. Willis, MPS October 2003
... according to guidelines developed by DPIC and the health care treatment facilities. Data on Digibind use in BC ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD April 2003
... days; they are primarily there because they pose a public health hazard. HIV, however, does kill people and has been a recognized as a global public health hazard for many years now. I have difficulty coming to ... to inform a sexual partner can refer to a local medical health officer (MHO). The MHO can then do what is necessary ...
Letters / BY: Erik T. Paterson, MD December 2003
... 15000 roughly, and we have 10.5 FTE doctors. The Interior Health Authority (IHA) states that the patient:doctor ratio ... am well aware of resource shortages, hospital issues, and health authority interference in all areas of the province ... removed from the major centres. Local hospital issues and health care delivery changes implemented by the regional ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John H. Hay, MB July/August 2003
... chemotherapy for colon cancer, the National Institutes of Health issued a consensus statement in 1990 that recommended ...