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News / BY: Deirdre Maultsaid, July/August 2009
... house for women and their children. We can assist doctors, police, and social workers on how to best respond. ... 604 872-8302; 604 872-8212 (24/7) www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca —Louisa C. Russell Vancouver Rape Relief and ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, October 2009
... efforts to support full-service family practice in BC. Since its inception in 2002, the joint BCMA-MOHS ... $452 million on programs for physicians. “Family doctors are the backbone of our health system,” Health ... Chronic disease management   Hundreds of thousands more BC patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure, and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC December 2009
... 1 ] At least once every 3 days a physician in BC has to tell family members that their mother, father, son, ... done to prevent anyone else being killed in this manner. Doctors don’t generally tell the family that the main ... testing above 0.08 blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) in BC was above the rate for Canada as a whole.[ 4 ]  While ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tarek Khalil, MPH, MD, MCFP, July/August 2009
... are evaluated. In British Columbia, the need for more doctors[ 4 ] means that international medical graduates ... pas­sed. Subsequently, 5 of the 6 IMGs who took the BC CaRMS as­sessment were offered residencies and the 2 ... Enhancing the interviewing skills of foreign-trained doctors upgrades their skills to the levels taught by ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD March 2009
... children’s future—and this holds for most everyone in BC, across the country, and indeed around the world. The ... cheered loudly in agreement. I’d like to think that the doctors of BC can overcome past differences and unite so that we too can ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, September 2008
... and quality of life. The benefits are also there for doctors and medical office assistants, says Dr Shafonsky, who ... year I’ve seen a deterioration in primary care, with doctors feeling unrecognized, overworked, and overwhelmed,” ... For more information, visit  www.practicesupport.bc.ca . —Liza Kallstrom, Lead, Change Management & Practice ...
Index December 2008
... to the editor (c), Editorials (ed), Back Page (bp), BC Centre for Disease Control (cdc), College Library (lib), ... Principles of Internal Medicine (Richardson DR) 6:332 How Doctors Think (pu) (Richardson DR) 2:71 Jack McCreary: ... 6:298  Physicians, public health, and immunizations—are doctors missing the point? (Oppel L) 4:189 -D- DIABETES ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, April 2008
... the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) to support BC’s family physicians. “In modern family practice, the ... the CDM toolkit. Using the secure, web-based toolkit, doctors and MOAs fill out patient flowsheets based on ... CDM toolkit is a clinical information system that helps doctors manage their patients who have chronic conditions. ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2008
... a journalist who just happened to be doing an article on doctors and needed a photograph of a doctor carrying a ...  on several occasions, as well as, at one point, in the  BC Medical Journal  be­cause the photo was used in an ad ... and demands about and for this test in many unprepared doctors’ offices around the province. Most docs hadn’t ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, May 2008
Trail BC family physician Dr Blair Stanley is training to do ... last fall,” says Dr Stanley. “So few of our local doctors were doing primary care obstetrics that we almost ... physicians in the program, and we’re hoping to get more doctors involved,” he says. “The goal is to build a large ...