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Back Page / BY: E.F. Vreede, MD, October 2006
... Granger Avery and I had done rounds in the little 10-bed hospital that also functioned as my place to sleep for 6 weeks, and I was getting my stuff together for our trip by floatplane to an outlying ...
Premise / BY: Michael K. McIsaac, BA, May 2006
... describe what mental health isn’t. I would not want my personal wellness to be stated in terms of “not ... or grounded. Should an MRI or CT scan reveal that my neuroanatomy is abnormal or that there are holes in my ... Psychiatry, at the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital in Montreal to submit a report on mental health ...
Premise / BY: James E. Miles, MD, FRCPC October 2005
... appropriate admission for basic care are unable to access hospital is a disgrace. Second, there is no villain; the ... very sick patients pose no problem in an organized system. My recent collection of Flashes begins with an item from the ... able to cope. So what is to be done? I thought a lot about my early mentors and what their response would be to this ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marina Leichner, RN January/February 2005
... in the treatment of eating disordered patients in the hospital setting, as described elsewhere in this issue (see  ... and angry. Today’s approach at BC’s Children’s Hospital (BCCH) is patient-centred and involves both the ... they may make comments such as “I know I can do it on my own” or “I have come as far as I can.” If possible, ...
President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD October 2005
... president of the BC Medical Association. What crosses my desk in the president’s office are issues that have ... that I am required to think about and act upon makes my job as your president enormously challenging and ... see my patients in my Kelowna office, look after them in hospital, and visit them in their nursing homes. There is no ...
MDs To Be / BY: Paul Dhillon, MBBChBAO, LRCP&SI, EMDM, CCFP, DRCOG, DTM&H(Lon), FRGS March 2005
... ability to access quality care in the community and in the hospital.” Although some of these people may choose not to ... to the editor, Dr Kuljit Sajjin wrote, “throughout my medical school training, family medicine was looked down upon as a career [at UBC]… [Once] I began my medical education I did not receive any encouragement to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC December 2005
... 2 years as a voluntary physician in the British Military Hospital while Nadia, a gifted linguist, worked as an ... ethics and introducing it into gastroenterology worldwide; my contribution to gastroenterology in the North and of course my contribution to the northern medical school.” ...
President's Comment / BY: Jack Burak, MD June 2005
It is hard to imagine that my year as president of the BCMA is fast drawing to a close ... to provide for patients needing specialty care. Since then my presidency has been akin to a game of hopscotch—which ... times, emergency room chaos, lack of sufficient acute care hospital beds, physician and nurse shortages, and the ...
Interviews / BY: Michael Golbey, MD September 2005
... day for you as a physician? On a normal day I get to the hospital at about 7:30, and I typically have anywhere between ... and I’m responsible for about half of them. I get to my office at about 8:30, do paperwork till 9:00, then see ... till 6:00, with an hour’s lunch, which I take at my desk. Once a week I admit patients to our local detox ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Richard Eddy, MD May 2005
... Legislation After the death of an 18-year-old admitted to hospital in New York State (the Libby Zion case) was ... first suggesting that this review was worth publishing. My thanks also to Ms Andrea Elvidge for her many helpful ...