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WorkSafeBC / BY: Shelley Perlman, MD, CCFP, FRCPC, March 2014
... condition, its diagnosis and treatment is front and centre in preventing workplace injuries. In safety-sensitive ... depending on the results of the reassessment.[ 4 ] The BC Driver Fitness Handbook for Medical Professionals provides ... least 70% of nights, with objective documentation.[ 5 ] In BC physicians must report to the motor vehicle licensing ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Sean Virani, MD, May 2014
... health system planning guide,  Setting Priorities for the BC Health System . Priority one in the guide is to shift the ... been a unifying vision and central activity for Doctors of BC and the Ministry of Health for the past 4 years. A number ... development and supportive care at the Vancouver Prostate Centre. “It is the patient deciding on what they need; not ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD June 2014
... extending from Vancouver to the Sunshine Coast, Northern BC, and Vancouver Island. Whenever I had a difficult case to ... from 1964 to 1966. In 1966 he established the Diabetes Day Centre at Lions Gate Hospital, the first of its kind in North ... and stimulated the growth of diabetes centres throughout BC. This also led to a certification process for diabetes ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC October 2014
... than half of these calls involved young children.[ 10 ] In BC, the Drug and Poison Information Centre received 14 e-cigarette liquid exposure calls between ...
Letters December 2014
The  BC Medical Journal  follows a style that is a combination of ... are specific to the journal. For example,  re  words (centre, litre, etc.) follow the British spelling pattern. The ...
News&Notes / BY: Michal Smialowski, MD, January/February 2014
... inauspiciously in the 7-Eleven parking lot in Burns Lake, BC. My wife Leslie and I were returning from a windsurfing ... the federal government.  The West Chilcotin Healthcare Centre in Tatla Lake is staffed by an excellent RN and ... I have also been part of pilot project with the BC Ambulance Service to respond to calls in a wider area. ...
News June 2014
... of Health Sciences in collaboration with scientists at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, UBC, and sites across the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC April 2014
... uncommon. In 2013, one such late complication was seen in BC in the form of vaccine-related herpes zosteriform ... vaccine-strain VZV may be involved. In all such cases, the BC Centre for Disease Control laboratory may be consulted. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Haroon Hasan, BSc, MPH, June 2014
... obtaining approval from the Research Ethics Board of the BC Cancer Agency. We then developed a questionnaire to ... Advisory Group of the Department of Radiation Oncology, BC Cancer Agency Vancouver Centre, and the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada.  ...
News&Notes / BY: Neil Pollock, MD, October 2014
... pasts. In 2008, Dr David Patrick, head of the BC Centre for Disease Control at the time, contacted me about ...