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Letters / BY: Shelley Ross, MD January/February 2020
... lead to a primary care system that better supports family doctors and the teams that work with them to better meet the ... what is currently happening. First, we know that family doctors are frustrated by mounting demands and system ... and healthy way to deliver quality care. Doctors of BC members identified these as among the most significant ...
President's Comment / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD April 2020
... forward at a rapid pace. At the grassroots level across BC, divisions of family practice and medical staff ... system-wide solutions to tackle the problem at the source. Doctors of BC’s Physician Burdens survey of members ... knowledge. Other than the initiatives developed by Doctors of BC, medical staff associations, and divisions, a ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD July/August 2020
... for their dying patients to see family one last time, or doctors providing reassurance and care to patients who are ... long haul. It has now been months since the first case in BC. However, the fact that we find the strength to physically ...
News, COVID-19 May 2020
Doctors of BC has developed a physician resource web page to keep members updated on the COVID-19 work happening at Doctors of BC, the Ministry of Health, the BCCDC, and other ...
Obituaries / BY: Gordon Olsen, MD September 2020
... of Dr Barney Ringwood and Dr Hugh Atwood in Williams Lake, BC, later partnering with Dr Donald McLean. After studying ... in Kamloops. He then took up doing locums in rural BC, retiring for the third and final time in 1992.  Sterling was often on call, mentored many young doctors, delivered thousands of babies, and never said no to ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD October 2020
... The pandemic response has been relatively successful in BC, though not without its share of difficulties. This ... for potential improvement when it comes to our response in BC and across Canada. Currently, our access to PPE is ... practices. We are not there yet. —Kathleen Ross, MD Doctors of BC President President's Comment COVID-19 It seems ...
President's Comment / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD January/February 2020
Dr Kathleen Ross As president of Doctors of BC, I receive and respond to a variety of questions from our ... issues. The letter reinforced for me the reasons why Doctors of BC prioritized work to examine and move forward in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Antonia Hyman, MSc April 2020
... the first province to legally implement UNDRIP. Bringing BC laws in line with UNDRIP is part of a major shift in ... Safety and Humility in Health Services was signed by the BC Ministry of Health and all BC’s health authorities in 2015[ 6 ] and by Doctors of BC in 2019.[ 7 , 8 ] The declaration commits ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD May 2020
... She started as an editorial assistant at the BCMA, as Doctors of BC was formerly known, in 1983. As the journal grew, she ... (formerly the White Report ). She is well known around Doctors of BC because of her help with many social and ...
News, COVID-19 November 2020
A report from BC Family Doctors, Reimagining Family Medicine: Learning from ... the story of the impact the pandemic has had on family doctors’ professional and personal lives—how COVID-19 ...