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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 ...
Letters / BY: Barbara J. Kane, MD, June 2007
... preceding the interactions with them and had been to the hospital on previous occasions. The third had stabbed another ... needed acute psychiatric treatment. BC Children’s Hospital, with its extended waiting list, is not suitable for ... resources for their patients, we would ask them to e-mail my secretary at  emily_moliere@yahoo.com  with general ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2007
... to reflect. I am a dinosaur. I never saw it coming. During my training I remember the limiting of billing numbers that made my classmates and me wonder which small, northern BC ... being in the six figures. I recall nervously applying for hospital privileges, as failure to acquire these would ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Jonathan Fenton, MD, FRCS, December 2007
... WorkSafeBC does not operate an urgent care centre/hospital. If an ur­gent surgical assessment is required, ... from Don Graham: Season's Greatings - and, since this is my last WorkSafeBC page before my retirement, all the best to you--not only in 2008, but ...
Letters / BY: A. Krisman, MD September 2007
I thought my letter-writing days were over, but the headline “BC’s ... (no pun intended). When I began practice at the old Grace Hospital almost 50 years ago (gasp!), the C-section rate ... of question or criticism from peers. In the later years of my practice at Richmond Hospital, when making weekend rounds ...
Editorials / BY: Patricia M. Rebbeck, MB, ChB, FRCSC December 2007
... I hesitated for a nanosecond because I am surely beyond my best-before date. I withdrew from clinical practice some ... medical treatment and medical technology. For instance, in my field, minimal access surgery has reduced trauma to the ... and therefore reduced the time needed recovering in hospital. Besides, it is rather intriguing to do, resembling ...