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News, COVID-19
May 2020
Doctors of BC has developed a physician resource web page to keep ... updated on the COVID-19 work happening at Doctors of BC, the Ministry of Health, the BCCDC, and other ... to covid19@doctorsofbc.ca . News COVID-19 Doctors of BC COVID-19 resource page ...
Editorials, COVID-19 /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
July/August 2020
... May, my heartfelt congratulations go out to the people of BC as their sacrifices have flattened the curve of this ...
Obituaries /
BY: Douglas J. Courtemanche, MD, MS, FRCSC
October 2020
... in convincing government to enact seatbelt legislation in BC. Because of these efforts, he was made an Office Brother ...
News, COVID-19
December 2020
The BC Ministry of Health plans to launch a centralized PPE ... contacts can be found in a memorandum on the Doctors of BC website at ...
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 ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jan Klimas, MSc, PhD
September 2020
... addicted to opioids (oral communication, Bohdan Nosyk, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, 1 August 2018) as a ... numbers reporting misuse and disorders.[ 3 ] The BC Centre on Substance Use recently published a systematic ... for preventing prescription opioid use disorder (OUD) in BC promotes safer opioid prescribing. A subsequent clinical ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC
November 2020
... team at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC. She is grateful to them for sharing their literature ...