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Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2013
... emergency department physician to be president of the BC Medical Association. After graduating from UBC and then ... Can you tell us a bit about him? My dad was one of those doctors whose story makes you say, “Wow, what a ... also did many dozens of medical evacuations to Alberta and BC, and some to the USA and Europe. When I moved to Duncan in ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Vera Frinton, MD October 2013
... Hematology. Shelly was the first clinical hematologist in BC and sat on the first Canadian examining board for clinical ... up the proposal for the bone marrow transplant program of BC, and the first transplant was done in 1980.  Shelly ... have taught innumerable learners who, no doubt, are better doctors and health care workers because of them.  Physician ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bill Cavers, MD January/February 2013
... to work toward closing gaps in care and providing BC physicians with the support they need to deliver effective ... In spring 2013 the PSP will launch How’s Your Health BC? (HYHBC), an initiative aimed at getting patients more ... in Care, and Polypharmacy. Local division family doctors and regional specialists are working together on ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD November 2013
... to increase with every provincial budget. If we in BC manage patients in an empathetic, elegant, and slightly ... the legislature feels compelled to limit the action of doctors in arbitrary and unhelpful ways. —Robert Shepherd, ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2013
... happiness? Sharing a bottle of ridiculously expensive BC Bordeaux blend with my wife of 46 years while devouring ... have four times as many health bureaucrats as practising doctors. What technological medical advance do you most ...
News January/February 2013
Four BC physicians were named in December as recipients of the ... and for their commitment to improving health care in BC. Dr Avery was recognized for his dedication to rural ... and Schonfeld on this well-deserved honor. News BC doctors awarded Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal ...
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 ...