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Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD October 2006
... but never met. Medical politics is always a hot topic with doctors, and our list of faculty and medical dignitaries ... sure that will be generated by an opportunity to meet with BC’s energetic and often controversial provincial and ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS June 2006
... lays the foundation for a trilateral relationship between doctors, the government, and health authorities. The ... Agreement that supports a trilateral relationship between doctors, government, and health authorities. Existing joint ... mammography The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, BC/Yukon Chapter (CBCF), recently announced the second-year ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Nadine Caron, MD, April 2006
... to this cultural, social, and professional knowledge. Even doctors with the best intentions will struggle to acquire ... the Aboriginal Health Committee at  aboriginal@bcma.bc.ca . —Nadine Caron, MD Chair, Aboriginal Health ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Basil Boulton, MD October 2006
The  BC Children and Youth Review  by Ted Hughes addresses many ... for millennia, but it is only in recent times that doctors have developed the scientific basis for the ... support. The medical system should not be complacent. Doctors should not opt out or be excluded from areas where ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Humer, MD, FRCSC, July/August 2006
... (oral communication, P. Blumel, cartographer, Province of BC, 22 September 2005). People living in the expanse of BC beyond the well-populated southwest region have ... with patients in real time in the offices of their family doctors. Acknowledgments The authors wish to thank the ...
Premise / BY: Faith E. Hayman, LLB, BA, BEd April 2006
... most people purchase disability insurance. The courts in BC have characterized disability insurance as insurance which ... words, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Doctors who are requested to provide reports for patients ... any one of several courses of treatment recommended by his doctors, he or she will be considered to have acted ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2006
... Dr Coward, with letters of support from the BC Civil Liberties Association and the BC Persons with AIDS ... me into action. “The first was the dispute between rural doctors and the government in 2000. We were in jeopardy of ... in a designated rural community. Another is based on new doctors committing to a full service family practice located ...
News December 2006
... stories, populated by medical students and young doctors, that reflect on Dr Lam’s experience as an ... a limited number of health care workers. The government of BC has undertaken a major pandemic planning initiative by the ... plans that can be implemented when a pandemic hits BC. As important, the hope is to develop response models that ...
Letters / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) July/August 2006
... medicine (CAM), entitled “Snake oil revisited: For doctors’ eyes only”  (BCMJ 2006;48[1]:20-21) , he ... always subtle. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC chose Dr Angell as the keynote speaker at its Ethics ... Association of Complementary and Integrative Physicians of BC (ACIPBC) —Carol Douglas MD, FRCP Vice-President, ...
News / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2006
... accept that the human heart cannot be operated on, these doctors pioneer the medical revolution of cardiac surgery ... the reader in a compelling way. The McCreary Society of BC has been collecting data for over a decade on how BC youth view their own health. It is unique data, acquired ...