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President's Comment / BY: Bill Cavers, MD September 2014
... facility-based groups are the most disengaged members of Doctors of BC. This needs to change. While we have been successful in ... of this plan is to create highly engaged members; doctors who can work with partners in the health care system ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) November 2013
... 90%—especially among family physicians.  However, the BC story is quite different from the national one. BC physicians have adoption rates close to 80%, and will ... it be great if all emergency departments provided family doctors with the patient’s typed emergency record the very ...
Letters / BY: Ebrahim Rafi-Zadeh, MD, January/February 2013
... can be ordered or viewed on the web at www.health.gov.bc.ca . The numbers are fascinating and, at times, mind ... Disparity in physician income has been a problem in BC for as long as I have been practising (42 years) and the ... through the pages of the book one can see that a lot of doctors have been billing the MSP over $1 or $2 million, and ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Morgan Price, MD, PhD, CCFP, December 2013
... announced A GP for Me to improve primary care in BC. Its goals are to confirm and strengthen the relationship ... participated in each debate. Attendees included family doctors, specialists, nurses, patients, and representatives ... connecting about 2000 Cowichan residents with family doctors. However, the issue of patient attachment is complex. ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Elizabeth Bryce, MD, FRCPC, September 2013
... those cared for by midwives.[ 1 ] He also recognized that doctors often went directly to the delivery suite from the ... attended deliveries.  Infection rates plummeted, but the doctors were skeptical, and Semmelweis was eventually forced ... infections in health care was recognized.  Prior to 2010, BC health authorities had developed a wide variety of hand ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Ian Courtice, MD, January/February 2013
... does the Cleveland Clinic have to do with health care in BC? Well, the two of us traveled to Ohio with a group of BC specialists and health care executives in November to find ... patients know who’s who—greeters wear red jackets, and doctors wear the traditional white lab coat. The goal of the ...
News&Notes / BY: Graham White, MD, October 2013
... system requires a large element of trust that doctors will bill appropriately for their services. Audits by ... indicate that this trust is usually well founded. Very few doctors bill inappropriately; fewer yet, fraudulently.  The ... to make an order for recovery. Orders are filed with the BC Supreme Court. Physicians have access to support from the ...
President's Comment / BY: Shelley Ross, MD May 2013
... share so many of the same concerns and objectives. Doctors tell me they just want to be able to do the best they ... negative questions. Ensuring that the public hears doctors’ opinions on major policy issues is a very ... initiatives to support our rural docs. As well, with BC’s physician shortage problem, we need to continue ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bill Cavers, MD April 2013
... usage data from more than 98000 high-needs patients in BC. It focused on two common chronic diseases, diabetes and ... study was the most detailed look at the impact family doctors have on health care costs.  The Ministry of Health ... a family doctor. It was also following its mandate to give doctors more of a role in determining which steps need to be ...
Obituaries / BY: Archie D. Young, MD, October 2013
... was financed largely by Captain J.C. Dun-waters of Fintry, BC, himself a lover of the Ayrshire cow. Learning about hard ... and eventually expanding to a group practice of five doctors.  The benefits of a group practice allowed Drew the ... contribution to health care by a family physician in BC. •    2000: Senior membership in the CMA. •    ...