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Obituaries / BY: Michele Matthews (née Marinker), June 2007
... of surgery at the Jubilee Hospital, and president of the BC Surgical Society. In his spare time, he mastered chess ... different challenge in 1963: to be one of the 13 original doctors of the Algoma Group Health Centre in Sault Ste. ... this “union clinic,” but also saw many of the downtown doctors eventually move to the clinic. During this time, he ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2007
... medical degree from Edinburgh Medical School, coming to BC for additional training in pediatrics. He spent one year ... vote, so if they’ve got issues to bring forward as young doctors, we need to show them that they can make a ... in the hospital with specialists. You don’t sit in the doctors’ lounge anymore because you don’t have time. So I ...
Editorials / BY: Patricia M. Rebbeck, MB, ChB, FRCSC December 2007
... clinical practice some time ago and I withdrew from the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons recently. I am now a ... practice, such as deterioration in access for patients to doctors and hospitals. There also seems to have become ...
Letters / BY: Barbara J. Kane, MD, June 2007
We are writing this as an open letter to the physicians of BC, primarily family physicians, pediatricians, and psychiatrists. We are asking the doctors to help us determine the need for acute psychiatric ... up our beliefs and hopefully develop more services. If doctors have similar psychiatric emergency situations with ...
President's Comment / BY: Margaret MacDiarmid, MD, January/February 2007
... step toward training sufficient numbers of physicians in BC. The increased number of medical students and residents ... around the province for part of their education. Doctors who were already teaching are being asked to do more, ... Ethics addresses teaching in two areas. In a section about doctors’ fundamental responsibilities, it states that we ...
News / BY: Tara Lyon April 2007
... Heritage Society, 1011 456 Moberly Road, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4L7, tel/fax: 604 224-3607, or e-mail  ... of 4 years of research focusing on procedures that new doctors working in remote areas will not have learned in any ... my point of view, was the lack of integration of family doctors in the community and of hospital-based physicians ...
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 ...