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Clinical Articles / BY: J. Connell, BSc, MPH April 2020
... the burden of rheumatic diseases is increasing.[ 1 ] In BC rheumatologic care is primarily delivered in an outpatient ... Services Committee, a joint collaborative committee of Doctors of BC and the BC Ministry of Health. Ethics approval ... communication with Raaj Tiagi, senior health economist, Doctors of BC, 16 January 2019) [ Figure 4 ]. As of 2018, 22 ...
News December 2020
The Doctors of BC Report to Members 2019–20 was released in late November ... . News Released: Doctors of BC’s new Report to Members ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Derek C. Chang, MD April 2020
... died as a result. Due to the number of fatal overdoses, BC’s life expectancy has fallen for the first time in ... organizations, such as Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of BC,[ 1 ] Moms Stop the Harm,[ 2 ] the Canadian Association of ... of an overdose without the fear of being incarcerated. As doctors in the province with the highest number of overdoses ...
News, COVID-19 / BY: Roxanne Joyce May 2020
... has launched a virtual peer-support group available to all BC physicians. Peer-to-peer connections promote shared ... The PHP program of BC helps physicians, resident doctors, and medical students, as well as their families. When doctors and their families reach out for support, we are ...
President's Comment / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD March 2020
... excluding other diagnostics or treatments. Right now in BC the strongest movement afoot is team-based care. This ... responsibility to bring this to life. —Kathleen Ross, MD Doctors of BC President President's Comment Amplifying value ...
Editorials / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) December 2020
... Surgeries Corporation v. British Columbia was rendered in BC Supreme Court following 11 years of litigation. The ... (5 October 2020) by Dr Danyaal Raza, chair of Canadian Doctors for Medicare. In response to the revelation that ... Vancouver Sun reported on 15 September 2020 that 17% of BC residents (780 000) do not have a family physician, ...
News June 2020
... Discover, a data-sharing application that allows family doctors to compare electronic medical record (EMR) data from their clinic to provincial averages. Doctors can then share the information with their colleagues ... decision making. Dr Kathleen Ross, president of Doctors of BC, emphasizes that as more physicians enroll, HDC will be ...
Obituaries / BY: Ann Skidmore, MBChB, FRCPC September 2020
... University Clinical Faculty Association in 1998 (now the Doctors of BC Section of Clinical Faculty). He believed passionately in ...
Letters / BY: Jonathan M. Winner, MD March 2020
... in full-time family practice in Alberta for 6 years and BC for 28 years before semi-retiring to Parksville in 2012, ... in the 50s. It was becoming clear to us practising family doctors that the family practice model we were all working in was becoming less attractive to the next generation of doctors, who were able to work in walk-in clinics, where they ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD June 2020
... is incomplete. Patients seem to enjoy speaking to their doctors from the comfort of their homes, often with family ... We were in fact, born to do this. —Kathleen Ross, MD Doctors of BC President President's Comment COVID-19 Forever changed ...