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Obituaries / BY: Nancy Kent, MD April 2021
... mentor, and a dear friend and treasured colleague at BC Women’s Hospital. Leanne was born in August 1972 and ... Leanne began her maternal fetal medicine fellowship at BC Women’s Hospital and a Master of Health Sciences in ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC May 2021
... were found in 20% of opioid samples checked by the BC Centre on Substance Use and 50% of samples from the ... were detected in 50% of illicit drug toxicity deaths in BC in December 2020 and January 2021.[ 2 ] Benzodiazepines ... not detect all benzodiazepines. Point-of-care screens in BC will detect etizolam but their reported sensitivity is 50% ...
Editorials / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP November 2021
... have been made painfully aware in our daily work that many BC physicians misinterpreted the College standard from 2016 ... Use Disorder ( www.bccsu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/BC-OUD-Guidelines_June2017.pdf ) for clinical advice. We hope ... FRCPC Pain and Symptom Management/Palliative Care Program, BC Cancer Clinical professor, Faculty of Medicine, Division ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tanya Fairweather, MD, CCFP, FCFP December 2021
... population,[ 1 ] and compensable mental health injuries in BC are common. In 2019 and 2020, 641 and 555 injured workers, ...
MDs To Be / BY: Maya de Vos, BSc January/February 2021
... performed in each health authority using data from the BC Surgical Patient Registry. Results Data from the three ... area. Our data show that anesthesiologists across BC are reducing the use of desflurane. In response, IHA and ... of anesthetic-related greenhouse gas emissions across BC, it is our hope to influence change across health ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Chris Rumball, MD April 2021
... 1825 Following a substantive review by the Doctors of BC’s Governance Committee, and a report and decision by the Doctors of BC Board, it was announced in January that the subcommittees ... became a subcommittee of COHP. It has acted as a voice for BC’s physicians on matters of vehicle safety (including ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Hasina Samji, PhD, MSc June 2021
... for action to mitigate those impacts. Young adults in BC are experiencing a severe economic crisis: the ... BCCDC, as of April 2021, young adults represented 31% of BC individuals infected during the pandemic but only 17% (892 543) of the BC population. Young adults experienced peak rates of mental ...
News September 2021
The updated BC Seniors’ Guide provides information on health, housing, ... rents affordable for low- to moderate-income seniors. The BC Senior’s Supplement, which offers a provincial top-up to ... services not available in local communities. The BC Bus Pass program, which offers subsidized bus passes to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ray Markham, MB ChB, MRCGP, FCFP December 2021
Health care system partners in BC are shifting away from siloed approaches to the planning ... particular focus on First Nations priorities[ 2 ] (we use BC to refer to a geography, and acknowledge that most of what is referred to as BC is unceded First Nations territories). With this shift ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Tonia Tauh, MD, FRCPC March 2021
... look at the 16-week window between doses of vaccines in BC for COVID-19.”   A successful vaccination strategy ... Framework and the accompanying ethics analysis.”[ 16 ] BC Provincial Health Officer Dr Bonnie Henry has announced ... vaccine shortage, such as what we are currently facing in BC, throughout Canada, and around the world. Competing ...