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President's Comment, COVID-19 /
BY: Kathleen Ross, MD
May 2020
... safe from harm. —Kathleen Ross, MD President, Doctors of BC President's Comment COVID-19 COVID-19 reflections ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Rochelle Tonkin, MD
October 2020
... far, these types of statistics have not been reported for BC or Canada. The term “rash” is commonly used to ... safety issues. In a small community hospital in Northern BC, a visiting dermatologist observed an increase in the ... in the ER might prove beneficial, because in Northern BC, many communities do not have a full-time dermatologist ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 /
BY: Meghan McLennan, BSc, MLT
December 2020
... testing. In September 2020, collection centres across BC started offering saline gargle as an alternative to ... resulted in a global shortage of NP swabs, including in BC. The ability to test hinged on the ability to obtain NP ... of the sample type, a clinical validation was led by BC Children’s Hospital, which required volunteers to ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Susan Dixon
January/February 2020
... in the workplace health and safety research landscape in BC. By fostering development of high-quality scientific ... health and safety, and workers’ compensation research in BC. These awards are aimed at building a base of research ... data gathered from multiple sources by Population Data BC, to paint a comprehensive picture of worker health. The ...
Beyond Medicine /
BY: David A. Obert, MD, MPP
April 2020
... the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) in Victoria, BC, sits atop the nexus of the fast-paced, often multi-agency ... to coordinate air and maritime search and rescue for BC and Yukon. As an emergency medicine resident pursuing ... emergency medical services system in British Columbia (BC Emergency Health Services), with which I am more familiar. ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 /
BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS
June 2020
... of the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, general surgeons in BC have been able to use this new technology to connect and ... Reticulum: A novel website connecting general surgeons in BC during the COVID-19 crisis ...
News, COVID-19
September 2020
BC Family Doctors has created a resource that provides ... with questions and concerns. Access the resource on the BC Family Doctors website at ...
News
November 2020
Following a year of consultations between Doctors of BC and the Ministry of Health, the ministry is now offering BC doctors a number of new contract options for interested ... circumstances. The ministry consulted with Doctors of BC during the development of the contracts. For detailed ...
Beyond Medicine /
BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP
March 2020
... in 2015, and one of its collection centres is at BC Women’s Hospital in Vancouver. The other three ... with provincial organ donation organizations like BC Transplant. The Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) program, ...