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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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mira Keyes, MD, FRCPC March 2010
... unable to effect a cure in most cases. A group of Seattle doctors started performing PB in 1987, introducing much ... health care system, radiation oncologists from the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) established the Prostate ... in 1997. To date, over 2750 patients have received PB in BC, making it the largest program in Canada and one of the ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Diana June King, March 2010
In November 2009, we lost a giant of BC medicine. Dr Don Rix has left behind a legacy of ... it. He started a courier system to pick up samples from doctors’ offices and clinics (which had been sent through ... in our more remote communities to help keep trained doctors in those communities. His long relationship with BCIT ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Robert Young, MD, June 2010
... representatives from Divisions of Family Practice across BC met with representatives from the BCMA, the Ministry of ... of attachment, which is to ensure that every person in BC who wants to have a family physician can, including those ... they are es­tablished as a society with over 85% of the doctors in the community and they have a collaborative ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD December 2010
... of outcomes for patients treated for rectal cancer in BC.[ 1 ] Pelvic recurrence at 4 years occurred in 16% of ... an in­formation campaign to raise awareness among family doctors, outcomes ana­lysis using data from pa­tient ... was to implement the treatment plan and to inform family doctors in BC of the new rectal cancer management strategy. ...
News&Notes / BY: Jeremy Smith, May 2010
... of two or three of the largest private practice clinics in BC.  In January 2010, Caledonian Clinic switched from an ... for transcriptionists to enter information dictated by the doctors.  By 2009, however, Ms Gross and the clinic saw that ... and technical details under Case Studies at  www.pito.bc.ca . News&Notes Special Feature: An EMR story that spans ...