President's Comment, COVID-19 /
BY: Kathleen Ross, MD
July/August 2020
... unprecedented. Who could have predicted how nimble our health care system needed to become to address the SARS-CoV-2 ... doctors and assisting them in raising concerns with the health care system at large, established the trusted channels ... relationship-based primary care. Our doctors and their health care administrator counterparts were already working ...
News, COVID-19
September 2020
... . The video also shows health care providers across BC how to test children with the ...
News, COVID-19
December 2020
... solutions that are currently lacking in Canada’s health care system. The work is part of a larger study that ... received supporting grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and Dr Howard has received the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Award to investigate Critical Illness ...
News
March 2020
... (RIH) in Kamloops. Launched in partnership with Interior Health and Royal Inland Hospital Foundation, the new family ...
Billing Tips /
BY: Nick Szpakowicz, MD
April 2020
... to be placed on a call list with the Ministry of Health. Once under contract, medical inspectors will be ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 /
BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS
June 2020
... care. Examples of other interests include billing, global health, medicolegal issues, wellness, medical education, and ...
Premise /
BY: Marjorie Dixon, MD, FRCSC, FACOG, REI
July/August 2020
... to care. We have learned that in order to receive equal health care opportunities, we must advocate loudly for ... were concerned as they presented with a host of women’s health and fertility issues. I did my best to “be the ... my compatriots to not be ignored, that their race-specific health issues mattered. But when it came to me—looking like ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Brett Baumann, MD
October 2020
... has been placed on the pathophysiology and corresponding health effects of vaping, and on the need for product ...
MDs To Be, COVID-19 /
BY: Shayda A. Swann, BSc
November 2020
... at the table of scientific discovery. Today, participatory health research, community advisory boards, and knowledge ... (MIWA) in the design and delivery of HIV/AIDS services. Health Care Women Int 2015;36:936-964. Kaida A, Carter A, ... A. Greater involvement of people living with HIV in health care. J Int AIDS Soc 2009;12:4. Schnarch B. Ownership, ...
News
January/February 2020
A new guideline from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care found no benefit to routine screening for thyroid ... recommendation, the evidence isn’t there to suggest a health benefit for this type of screening as a routine part ... with other guidelines The British Columbia Ministry of Health and Toward Optimized Practice from Alberta recommend ...