Search

News September 2020
... with the nurses and nurse practitioners along with local health authorities and other partners, to provide team-based ... can work on their own, or with physicians and other health professionals, to provide care across a person’s ... two registered nurses, a social worker, and mental health clinicians to provide team-based care. Patients can ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Karima Jiwa, MD, CCFP, FCFP October 2020
... for a workplace injury, occupational disease, or mental health condition. Physicians may request assistance with ...
Editorials / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) December 2020
... life. Where there is a will there is a way. Universal health care systems that aim to provide essential care to all ... that their needs cannot be met by state-controlled health systems. Recently, a decision in the case of Cambie ... system determined to ensure that medically necessary health care remains untainted by market forces. A sentiment ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Konia Trouton, MD, CCFP, MPH, FCFP January/February 2020
... be integral to end-of-life care and morally important, our health care infrastructure does not facilitate a role for ... this service can be accessed through the website of the health authority (Island Health) or other online or print sources, and patients can ...
News April 2020
... in The Lancet , was led by researchers of the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) of McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) in Hamilton. HIP ATTACK involved 2970 ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD June 2020
... medical statistics are still ticking along. Front-line health care workers are not all looking after COVID patients; ... or maybe even have reduced risks for our population. We in health care, who hold many of the stakes directly and on ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2020
... of COVID-19 is concerning in BC, where an ongoing public health emergency was declared in April 2016 related to high ... opportunities to connect patients with counseling, mental health, and social housing options, and to provide safer ... recent BC risk mitigation guidelines recommend that health care providers offer pharmaceutical replacements for ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS September 2020
Health inequity arising from personal and systemic bias ... help physicians deepen their understanding of race-related health inequity, College librarians have selected resources for a race and health equity reading list ( ...
President's Comment / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD November 2020
... is no place for racism in our communities, profession, or health care system. We can do better, and we need to be ... and should not have to be earned by anyone when seeking health care. We are fortunate in Canada that our modern ... family physicians. The agenda introduced many aspects of health care delivery here in BC, including an introduction to ...
Letters / BY: Shelley Ross, MD January/February 2020
... the foundation for efficient, effective, and sustainable health care is well supported by evidence and is now being acknowledged broadly by government policymakers, health care administrators, and our medical associations as ... process currently underway between the Ministry of Health and Doctors of BC is actively exploring the ...