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Premise / BY: James E. Miles, MD, FRCPC October 2005
... about very interesting research developments by Canadian doctors. The pride we can take in medical research ... Times Colonist, dated 1 April 2005 and entitled, “BC Removes 11,000 names from elective surgical wait list.” ... with meningococcemia, which was undiagnosed because the doctors couldn’t see her “for 8 hours or more.” This ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Duncan Robertson, MD, FRCP, FRCPC June 2005
... quality-of-life, and health care costs. What can the doctors of British Columbia do to prevent falls? First, some ... Office of the Provincial Health Officer, [2]  and on the BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit web site. [3] An older ... however, this is not the case in many other parts of BC. Over the next year the BCMA Geriatric and Palliative Care ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Galt Wilson, MD, CCFP September 2005
... practice and become hospitalists, walk-in clinic doctors, or emergency care physicians. And increasing numbers ... physicians in British Columbia dropped from 576 (12.9% of BC physicians) in January 1994 to 490 (11.1%) in January ... rural Canada was 1:1201. The annual turnover of medical doctors in rural communities is increasing and is currently ...
President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD July/August 2005
... working environment of physicians is improved to make sure BC can successfully retain and recruit the doctors we so desperately need. The result of May’s ... best possible relationship between this government and the doctors of BC. A good working relationship will be necessary ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD March 2005
... a startling revelation, as I’m sure most TV viewers in BC’s Lower Mainland had no idea that their ERs were crowded ... people in cardiology, respirology, traumatology, or family doctors, and I wonder, why not? We are the ones that have to ...
News June 2005
... Award Dr George Magee, a rural doctor from Burns Lake, BC, was recently awarded a 2005 British Columbia Community ... about his profession—especially the recruitment of doctors for rural service—and remains active with the ... to state “there would not only be a shortage of family doctors in the future but those who did chose that field ...
News November 2005
... membership in good standing in the BCMA, the CMA, and the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia. ... Committee, 115–1665 West. Broadway, Vancouver, BC V6J 5A4 by  30 November 2005. CMA Honorary Membership The ... Quesnel has been highly dependent on a succession of doctors recruited from other countries. Andrew has regularly ...
News / BY: John McCracken, MD April 2005
... funding from various community organizations and the BC government. The Asante Centre is one of only 11 facilities ... we want to honor the longstanding tradition of inviting doctors to review and comment on the proposed changes, or ... —Sandie Braid, CEBS BCMA Benefits Department Doctors' health program moves The Physicians' Health Program ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB July/August 2005
... the Supreme Court decision mean and how will it affect doctors and their patients in British Columbia? I will ... will have to change to make insurance available locally. BC and Alberta will not sit passively by and watch money ... Patients will receive timely care when they and their doctors (not governments) feel it is appropriate. As we look ...
President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD October 2005
... today. I enjoy the challenges of being president of the BC Medical Association. What crosses my desk in the ... office are issues that have strategic implications for the doctors of BC and for the association, and ultimately for our ... had endorsed and recommended the proposal to the family doctors of British Columbia. However, our members told us ...