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Clinical Articles / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC December 2005
... chief examiner in GI for the Royal College. Quite a few BC gastroenterologists had Joe as their examiner. There were ... rally of Prince George citizens in support of northern doctors and greater availability of medical care, the idea of ... a project to renew our ranks of rural and northern doctors, will have been done more than 10 years after most ...
Premise / BY: Robert H. Brown, MD, CCFP May 2005
... This would allocate about $20 per person per year for all BC residents. A busy full-service doctor with 2500 patients ... docs would either belly up to the bar and become real doctors or they would go hungry. If patients used an average ... an onus of responsibility on all three players, namely doctors, patients, and government. It also generates an ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS September 2005
... of insurance choices Members of the BCMA and the CMA in BC and their families now have broader insurance choices than ... office for more information. BCMA:  Toll free in BC 1 800 665-2262 ext. 2882 or 2836/604 638-2882 or 604 ... historians make good patients, but they make even better doctors,” encourages one author. This book is recommended ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Richard Eddy, MD May 2005
... have relevance to the circumstances of physicians in BC today: • Healthy adults typically require 6 to 10 hours ... of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute in Edmonton. Doctors in Europe follow the European Working Time Directive ... in Spain clarified that “work” includes all the time doctors are available on call and not just the time they are ...
MDs To Be / BY: Paul Dhillon, MBBChBAO, LRCP&SI, EMDM, CCFP, DRCOG, DTM&H(Lon), FRGS March 2005
... must work toward finding a solution to the lack of family doctors today, and the impending shortage in the future. ... of Canadians believe that accessing publicly funded family doctors is of primary importance. It is thus imperative that ... Recent changes in the medical school structure in BC also seem to be steps in the right direction. The ...
Letters / BY: Rick Potter-Cogan, CCFP June 2005
Kudos to the BCMA and BC government for attracting 650 FPs to Vancouver for the ... not apply here and never will without capitation. Most BC doctors do not want capitation. However, the British doctors clearly relayed that pay parity with specialists is ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2005
The BC Medical Association’s 2005 Annual Convention came just 2 ... the legitimate concerns of salary and service contract doctors. If we don’t find a way to reach an agreement, we ... of health care available when they need it, and we, as doctors want to protect patient care. “While we are talking ...
President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD November 2005
... the role of physicians in providing medical care in BC. It provides the foundation for the working relationship ... battles, and have a direct influence over how BC doctors practise medicine. There are at least eight important ... In turn, this prevents government from coercing doctors into practising in areas of the province at its whim. ...
Editorials / BY: Alan Brookstone, MD July/August 2005
... does a train have to the current state of health care in BC? Information technology (IT), and believe me, it’s big ... we have lost an important physical setting—the doctors’ lounge. When the majority of physicians in the ... privileges, an important part of the day was visiting the doctors’ lounge, picking up one’s mail, and spending a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jerilynn C. Prior, MD, FRCPC December 2005
... Anyone interested can send an e-mail message to pep@jbcp.bc.ca or phone 250 388-7844 (extension 335) or 250 477-7284. ...   FPs and perimenopausal women needed for study Family doctors and primary care practitioners from the Greater ...