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Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD July/August 2016
... million claims are processed each year by Health Insurance BC. The system allows physicians to submit billings in most ... for locum work. Read the Preamble and your section of the Doctors of BC Guide to Fees . Be cautious about following billing advice ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Shore, MD, CCFP September 2016
... received the new College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC professional standards on safe prescribing last week to ... pain. Not all patients are con artists or junkies. Not all doctors are inappropriate prescribers. We care about our ...
News / BY: Laurie Cooper, January/February 2016
... in Europe but it seemed very distant. As a resident of BC I wasn’t really connected and then, suddenly, we all ... of the refugees I met and helped. Medical professionals (doctors, nurses, paramedics) are desperately needed on the ... on Lesvos, visit  www.canadacaring.ca . —Laurie Cooper Doctors of BC News Staff member joins front line of refugee ...
Letters / BY: Anne Wachsmuth, MD July/August 2016
In the recent Doctors of BC 2016–17 election for president-elect, less than 30% of ... in real change. Two Board members of the Canadian Doctors for Medicare widely circulated e-mails against Dr Day ...
News October 2016
Doctors who are making changes to technology in their offices ... physician network: PPN) are encouraged to contact the Doctors Technology Office for technical support focused on ... risks. The PPN is a private wide area network managed by BC Clinical and Support Services. A private network allows ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP June 2016
... these new skills and knowledge into their practice. Doctors of BC through the General Practice Services Committee has ... ( www.gpscbc.ca/content/end-of-life-module-helps-family-doctors-discuss-planning-death-patients ). The module ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP September 2016
... by the Directorate of Agencies for School Health (DASH) BC and Action Schools BC, with new government funding. During October the Doctors of BC Be Active Every Day initiative will be ... to engage as many students as possible. That means we need doctors in every community to step up and help us lead the ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD July/August 2016
... naturalized or not, to prisoner-of-war camps in the BC Interior, and a dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed on these ... seats for a driver and the doctor. Dr Miyazaki and other doctors used this Pacific Great Eastern Railway speeder ... discrimination from a few of the residents and some of the doctors. At one point his name was even removed from the list ...
Letters / BY: Andre C. Piver, MD, FCFP September 2016
A recent article in the Globe and Mail , included in a Doctors of BC newsflash, led me to write about electronic health records ...
Letters / BY: D.S. Dhanda, MD, FRCSC December 2016
... attention that the BCMJ recently included advertising for Doctors of Optometry with a full-page ad and a rolling ... mission statement the focus on physicians, being “by BC physicians, for BC physicians.” Optometrists are not ... from a nonphysician group presenting themselves as doctors without explanation that they are not physicians, do ...