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MDs To Be / BY: Raiya Suleman, BHSc May 2021
... age of 80 report feelings of loneliness.[ 6 ] While the BC government recognizes the importance of social and ... that target social isolation.[ 7 ] Additionally, the 2019 BC Centre for Disease Control report on social isolation ... for seniors was not a priority for most municipalities in BC.[ 8 ] The literature on loneliness among older adults ...
Letters / BY: Liz Keay, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, PhD September 2021
... of Dr Day’s statement is to underline the fact that the BC government considers it has the right to send patients who ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP November 2021
... socialization. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC practice standard ( ... ) for a complete list of opioids that are available in BC. Competing interests None declared. ABSTRACT: Opioids are ...
College Library / BY: Paula Osachoff January/February 2021
... possible. Locally, the eHLbc (Electronic Health Library of BC) consortium provides many health libraries access to ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Vivian W.L. Tsang, MD, MGC April 2021
The spike in overdose deaths in BC due to COVID-19 serves as a reminder that the lack of ... One of the cornerstones of harm-reduction services in BC is the Take Home Naloxone (THN) program created in 2012. ... had developed THN programs in some jurisdictions for PWUD, BC, a frontrunner on the harm-reduction scene, had not yet ...
Shared Care Committee, COVID-19 / BY: Graham A.A. Dodd, MSc, MD, CCFP(EM), MADEM June 2021
... grown increasingly accustomed to emergency situations in BC. Forest fires, flooding, and other natural disasters are ... funding are key to emergency management success. Ideally, BC will establish an ongoing province-wide network with a ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Rhonda Willms, MD September 2021
... topical/oral medications, injections, or surgery. In BC, there are several centres where treatments and procedures ...
Letters / BY: G. Frank O. Tyers, MD, FRCSC, FACS, FACC, ABS, ABTS January/February 2020
... “Healthy aging” assure me there are still many docs in BC who put patients at ease and gain their confidence ...
President's Comment / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD April 2020
... forward at a rapid pace. At the grassroots level across BC, divisions of family practice and medical staff ... solutions to tackle the problem at the source. Doctors of BC’s Physician Burdens survey of members revealed that a ... Safety Regulations that, by law, apply to all workers in BC. Tremendous variation exists across clinical settings, ...
Letters, COVID-19 / BY: British Columbia COVID-19 Therapeutics Committee June 2020
... coverage of potential pharmacological agents.[ 1 , 2 ] In BC, we have had the benefit of a diverse group of experts (the BC COVID-19 Therapeutics Committee [CTC]) scanning and ... virtual meeting, the updated material is submitted to the BC Health Emergency Coordination Centre Clinical Reference ...