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Clinical Articles / BY: C. Mackie, MD, MHSc, CCFP June 2007
... the public have the information they need to prepare. The BC Ministry of Health web site offers a wealth of pandemic ... moderately severe influenza pandemic suggests that family doctors can expect to see an increase in visits of up to 38% ... pandemic influenza to help take the burden off family doctors and emergency rooms. • Working with municipalities ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Geraldine Vance, APR, December 2007
... physicians, medical office assistants, and patients in BC are benefiting from a new and innovative approach to an ... or daily 5-minute “huddles.” “Relationships between doctors and staff become stronger,” says Ms Rivard. ... how well things can work for patients, staff, and doctors,” he says. “Advanced access is just one of the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP July/August 2007
... documentation. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC has written standards outlining facility and physician ... operate hyperbaric chambers are not necessarily medical doctors. Late last year, the BC Ministry of Health established a working group to review ...
News October 2007
... by Dr Susan O’Reilly, director of clinical services, BC Cancer Agency, and Dr Teresa Clarke, director of clinical ... access. Although women do not need a doctor’s referral, doctors who promote the idea of regular screening mammograms ... goal. The redesigned materials will be found in family doctors’ offices, walk-in clinics, community centres, and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) July/August 2007
... the office setting. Also seen as a pressing need is that doctors should have a voice in reducing the stigma associated ... In the coming months the committee will seek the input of BC health authorities to identify gaps in the provision of services for addicted patients. At the same time, BC doctors will be surveyed to determine what educational ...
MDs To Be / BY: Lee MacKay, BSc, April 2007
... the answer to the woes of the public health care system in BC, the issue of how best to fix the problems being faced by ... health care professional for their needs, thereby allowing doctors to spend their time treating the patients most in need of their specialized care. This allows doctors to meet two fundamental patient concerns: first, ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2007
... made my classmates and me wonder which small, northern BC community we would be forced to practise in. I remember ... of my fledging general practice. There were two types of doctors—specialists and family doctors. You were either in one club or the other. Then ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, September 2007
... largesse. It was a great pleasure to meet these young doctors. I was impressed by their enthusiasm, their love of ... in six areas of importance to physicians in BC: prescription drug expenditures, Pharmacare program, drug ... Strategy. Included in the recommendations on BC’s Pharmacare program is the Reference Drug Program ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, July/August 2007
... your Association is planning to make its submission to BC’s Conversation on Health. The physicians of BC are on ... and initiatives developed to attract and retain doctors to this province. It also provided the opportunity ... $70 million for the retention and recruitment of rural doctors; the General Practice Services Committee, whose job ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Bill Mackie, MD June 2007
... in this province. Recent successes For many years BC was the only province that didn’t have a coordinated ... as a family. COHP attracted the participation of about 50 doctors from around the province to deliver an informative ... climate change will have on health and disease patterns in BC.  In the immediate future, the Council will be ...