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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Clay Barber, January/February 2011
... Agreement between the Ministry of Health Services and the BC Medical Association.  While the GPSC and the SSC are ... Pro­vidence Health Care in Vancouver. With RACE, family doctors gain ac­cess to specialists by phoning a single ... relationship that existed between specialists and family doctors, where there was time for hallway conversations and ...
News September 2011
... and Providence Health Care.  Through RACE, family doctors gain access to specialists by phoning a single ... 682-2344, ext. 66522, e-mail  mwilson@providencehealth.bc.ca , or visit  www.bcma.org/partners-patients . News RACE wins Excellence in BC Health Care Award ...
President's Comment / BY: Nasir Jetha, MD, October 2011
... few years have seen the effect in their portfolios.  In BC we have had a change in political leadership with one ... better if we remain united and cohesive. To­day when we doctors feel under siege, cohesion is even more important.   There is a perception that doctors can have difficulty working with each other—that we ...
News January/February 2011
... or end-of-life facilities. The team includes two BC physicians, Dr Aleco Alexiadis of Vancouver and Dr Ilona ... . News Canadian doctors in the developing world ...
Council on Health Promotion April 2011
I’m hoping the news headline on 10 May 2011 will read “BC doctors step out for Walk with your Doc initiative!”  May ... event began last year with a small, dedicated group of doctors in BC who invited their inactive patients to go for a ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB October 2011
... In the wake of the 1991 Barer-Stoddart re­port, BC (like many other provinces) acted to reduce enrollment in ... their error, and have recently increased the number of doctors in training.  Medical schools continue to reject the ... average and it has been estimated that we need 26 000 more doctors. By ex­trapolation, it is clear that even the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) December 2011
... by their doctor, a diagnosis of cancer ranks near the top. Doctors have long recognized that patients with cancer, as ... of treatment or cure of dreaded diseases.[ 1 ]  Good doctors have always taken care to deliver the best scientific ... Board. Council on Health Promotion Cash-strapped BC government has money to burn ...
MDs To Be / BY: Pamela Verma, BSc, November 2011
... and affable. Nowadays, with the shortage of family doctors, being available is the biggest challenge. Do you ... of the Federation. I continued to participate as the BC Chapter president and the national president in 1984. That ...
Obituaries / BY: John O’Brien-Bell, MB June 2011
... with government. The government’s attitude drove family doctors to emigrate by the hundreds. In March 1966 he left ... Practice Committee. Eight years later he moved to Surrey, BC, to join Dr Terry Fidgeon and his partners in practice; ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC June 2011
... of an infected tick.[ 1 ] The principal tick vector in BC is the Pacific black-legged tick,  Ixodes pacificus ,[ 2 ... is found throughout the highly populated areas of southern BC. This situation is in contrast to eastern Canada and the ... 0.5 per 100 000. A recent survey of clinicians confirms doctors have good knowledge of Lyme disease, are comfortable ...