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Obituaries / BY: Guy Winch, MBChB March 2008
... who died in December. Reid was born at the Wellesley Hospital in Toronto. He was brought up and went to school in ... 1943.There followed a year of internship at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, and on a weekend trip, returning on ... and art. He and Esther had traveled widely, and he was, in my opinion, an “educated doctor” and a delightful ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, May 2008
... delivered 12 babies—at that rate you’re in and out of hospital all the time.”  But 5 years ago, with the ... delivering babies. “I have a lot of young women in my practice and when I sent them elsewhere to have their ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB October 2008
... years ago, I was not yet born; I was not even a twinkle in my father’s eye! I arrived on the scene when the Journal ... and front cover. I’m sure you get the message—this is my favorite journal. So when my colleague and friend DRR (a.k.a. “Little Dave”) approach­ed me in the hospital corridor a few months ago with “a proposition,” ...
Obituaries / BY: Ruth Elwood Martin, MD, FCFP, MPH June 2008
... I first met her over our cadavers; we were side by side, my last name being Elwood and Mimi’s being Divinsky.  Mimi moved to Toronto’s Wo­men’s College Hospital for her family medicine residency. She then ...
Editorials / BY: Patricia M. Rebbeck, MB, ChB, FRCSC September 2008
I expect that this will be my last opinionated rant for the editorial pages of the BCMJ. ... stayed on this most enjoyable of medical committees until my retirement a year or two ago. I was called back last year ... the care at that site. Hence the closure of other hospital beds and the limiting of the number of operating and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark R.C. Dickeson, MD, FRCSC, FACS September 2008
... front of me appeared those fateful words that would change my life forever: The University of British Columbia, ... I wandered about in a daze until I bumped into one of my classmates. “Where are you going?” he asked, in ... also found the breadth of services provided by the GP-only hospital staff to be amazing. I learned that the town of just ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD May 2008
... institutions. This was not a prescient revelation on my part, as most of us graying physicians were acutely aware ... describing during our very brief (and getting briefer) hospital interactions.  Since that time the situation has ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD October 2008
It started in the night and I wasn’t even naked. My generalized abdominal pain gradually worsened but was only a mild ache by the morning. I vomited after eating my lunch and thought I must have the flu that my colleague ... must feel like,” I thought to myself.  Off to the hospital I went to do rounds, but interestingly I had to lift ...
Letters / BY: David J. Brant, MD, July/August 2008
... published in the April issue of the BCMJ resonate with my own [ 2008;50:123-124 ], and more particularly with my own experience both in treatment/management of an addict ... mentors (Dr Larson, medical director at the psychiatric hospital in North Battleford, Saskatchewan) observed that the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC June 2008
... 11% of injured, intoxicated drivers who are treated in hospital are convicted of impaired driving.[ 2 ] In the ... registry for injured, alcohol-impaired drivers admitted to hospital in the Calgary Health Region. The conviction rate ... and be told that they were continuing to drive in spite my advice.  In 2005, BC introduced a remedial program that ...