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Letters / BY: Susan M. Lee, MD, FRCPC, MAS July/August 2018
I am a physician in BC and a longstanding infertility patient. First of all, I ... particularly with respect to funding for treatment in BC. I wrote a letter to the Ministry of Health a few months ... hesitant to reach out to reproductive endocrinologists in BC to ask them to get behind the cause because I do ...
News September 2018
... The J.H. MacDermot Writing Award, sponsored by Doctors of BC, honors Dr John Henry MacDermot, who served as editor for ...
Back Page / BY: Paul Mitenko, MD November 2018
... government in late 1991, and initially was welcomed by the BC medical profession because of the new approaches that they ... the united feeling we had about leading the physicians of BC, and I continue to thank my colleagues here for their ... Lawrence Winkler, and Herb Welch. For more Doctors of BC history, see The BCMA, Then and Now: A selected history ...
News January/February 2018
Are you a physician practising in BC? Are you or your physician spouse having or adopting a ... one of the negotiated benefits administered by Doctors of BC. In addition to pregnancy benefits for female physicians, ...
News May 2018
Doctors of BC members are invited to attend the 2018 annual general ... at 5:15 p.m. with a reception, followed by the Doctors of BC annual awards ceremony at 6:00 p.m., including ... go to www.doctorsofbc.ca/news-events/event/2018-doctors-bc-annual-general-meeting . News Doctors of BC 2018 annual ...
Obituaries / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD July/August 2018
... with the SS Beaver Medal by the Maritime Museum of BC. He was recognized for his internationally respected ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC October 2018
... safe disposal replaced the policy of needle exchange in BC. From 2007 to 2016, HIV diagnoses in people who inject ... ] To enable safe disposal of used injection supplies, the BC harm reduction program provides personal sharps containers ... Physician Epidemiologist and Harm Reduction Lead, BCCDC BC Centre for Disease Control The physician’s role in harm ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andy Jiang, BSc December 2018
... 5 ] The trend continued in 2017, with 1452 deaths in BC from illicit drug poisoning.[ 4 ] Though “overdose” is ... morbidity and mortality. Currently, the research focus in BC has been on poisoning deaths due to illicit drug and ... for all-cause poisoning hospitalizations and deaths in BC from 2008 to 2013. Methods Data were obtained from the BC ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC June 2018
... in the country. The average age of a first-time mother in BC is 30.8 years, according to Statistics Canada, compared ... significant move toward delayed childbearing. In 2015 the BC Vital Statistics Agency noted that the proportion of ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kara Solmundson, MD, CCFP (SEM), Sport Med Dip, MSc April 2018
... health and economic implications on our society. BC has an opportunity to challenge the status quo, create ...