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Clinical Articles / BY: Robert W. Armstrong, MD, PhD, FRCPC, September 2008
The BC government has fund­ed a provincial medical school linked ... system during the last 30 years.  They are not unique to BC, as demonstrated by recent calls for broad educational ... complex organizations. Little training is given to equip doctors for this, and the difficulty that many consequently ...
Letters / BY: Barbara J. Kane, MD, November 2008
... of the patients, but be­cause the Community Living BC system is so unfriendly, unwieldy, and difficult to work ... but also for the patients, their families, other doctors, and other caregivers. The recommendations in the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD September 2008
... active shareholders. Is either doctor an employer? No, the doctors are not employers, but the incorporated practice in ... care organization. She shares an office with five other doctors who jointly fund operating expenses, including the ... apply: • You must register with WorkSafe­BC. • Once registered, you’re required to report your ...
ICBC / BY: Doug Harrington, July/August 2008
... with the idea of writing about MRIs for an audience of doctors. However, I believe this discomfort arises from an ... the lawyer’s request that an MRI be obtained. The BC College of Physicians and Surgeons may have considered ... with some level of medical input. The College requires doctors to “consider the medical necessity” in requesting ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG April 2008
... to do. And since the BCMJ is a journal produced by the doctors of BC for the doctors of BC, the lighter side of practice is reflected in ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2008
... with gymnastics associations. I became president of the BC Gymnastics Association and was on the board of Sport BC. I ... Because that’s really the case. I recently read How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, and he says what you really ... its capacity to resolve issues and disputes between the doctors and the Province. I’d like to see medicine be a ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) May 2008
... those nations are enviably high. Public health programs in BC do a creditable job of ensuring that infants and ... as patients without access to a GP, re­mote areas without doctors, or situations where physicians do not offer ... (given the regularity with which patients go to their doctors with a list of problems).  It would be difficult to ...
Letters / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP March 2008
... this was having a step goal such as 10000 steps per day.  Doctors in BC will have opportunity in 2008 to promote pedo­meter use ...
Obituaries / BY: Eileen Cambon, MD, May 2008
... small hospital with 25 beds. The hospital was staffed with doctors and nurses who were also interned in the camp. With ... in New York on 12 December 1951, and reached Victoria, BC, on Boxing Day.  As foreign graduates they were required ...
Letters / BY: Caroline Wang, MD, September 2008
... for an organization that represents and speaks for the doctors of BC, transparency and accountability to its members are ... values, I am confident that collectively the physicians of BC will set the right course for their future.   ...