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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 ...
President's Comment / BY: Margaret MacDiarmid, MD, May 2007
... Darrell, and indirectly from Terry.  Then in February, my husband had an unexpected, life-threatening illness. We ... end of health care in a major way. Many of the 16 days my husband spent in hospital were inexpressibly difficult, but he is now safely ...
Letters / BY: Jeff Lynskey, MD, June 2007
... have been in the same practice for 19 years. I have active hospital privileges. At our hospital the specialists (except ... until 2 years ago I did maternity care. I am on call for my patients 24 hours a day. My work week averages about 55 hours. Family practice is in ...
Editorials April 2007
... was $85. If sick dishwashers were covered by medicare, my GP would get paid $64.56. In economic terms, doctors are ... there were 284 000 patients waiting over 6 months for hospital care in Britain. By 2006, there was none. In ... its emphasis to attracting and retaining physicians. Hospital beds and operating room time are not rationed. ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, October 2007
... outdoors and too early to ski. That is why many years ago my wife and I decided this would be the ideal month to take a ... in a boating accident and had been sutured at the local hospital. He gave a hilarious account of the experience, ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Malthouse, MD, September 2007
... CME credits” ( BCMJ  2007;49[3]:109-110 ), which cites my conference lectures on homeopathy as inappropriate CME ... in which homeopathy was used in an NHS Teaching Trust hospital.[ 6 ] All of these patients had been referred by their general practitioners or hospital consultants. Positive health changes were reported ...
Obituaries May 2007
Hugh Miller, my long-time friend and associate, was a very special man. ... FRCSC in 1958. In the days when the Vancouver General Hospital Emergency Department was mostly run by house staff, ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, July/August 2007
... that I become your president. Like many, if not all, of my predecessors my feelings are mixed. Making the change from 33 years of ... is that fewer and fewer family physicians are keeping hospital privileges. As a result, there is a growing ...
Back Page / BY: Graham C. Fraser, FRCS, FACS January/February 2007
... well, one out of three isn’t so bad, I suppose. It’s my opinion that in the nose department the Almighty has ... farmyard, I can detect them all by their merest hint. In my olfactory bank I have stored a myriad of evocative whiffs, ... take only a nanosecond to complete. Then there is the hospital smell. This is a multifacetted formula which means ...