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Premise / BY: John A. Cairns, MD, FRCPC May 2025
Reflecting on my bird’s-eye view from 2000 of what the next 25 years of ... [ BCMJ 2000;42:241-242 ], I have observed that several of my predictions have been fulfilled to varying extents, some ... data (e.g., medications, vaccinations, medical visits, hospital stays), along with selected personal nonhealth data ...
News / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) July/August 2025
My Fight for Canadian Healthcare: A thirty-year battle to put ... embodied in the Canada Health Act will be eroded.     My Fight for Canadian Healthcare recounts how frustration ... with budget-driven operating room cutbacks at UBC Hospital in the 1980s created lengthy wait lists and ...
Letters / BY: Marie Claire Bourque, MD, MSc, FRCPC, DABPN November 2025
... when they will pay those claims? Next time I go to file my income tax, I’m going to write “BH” on the ... in all situations. I get paid for 100% of the work I do in my outpatient clinic. And I get paid on time. It’s the emergency work, the hospital work, the work I do with marginalized folks that ...
Letters / BY: Vanessa Kong, BA April 2025
... implementation of two projects, one spearheaded by Burnaby Hospital and the other by the Burnaby Division of Family ... about substance use care and resources among Burnaby Hospital staff, community providers, and the public Burnaby ... of substance use supports and resources that I can refer my patients/clients [to] within Burnaby.” Lesson 2: It’s ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Rebecca Z. Xu, MD March 2025
... This research was funded by the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute’s Evidence to Innovation. This ... may have been a renewal of a prescription prescribed in a hospital setting (e.g., emergency department, hospital prescriptions). Within BC’s health care system, ...
Interviews / BY: Tara Lyon October 2025
... which he had no idea he’d end up working in medicine. “My parents still live in Kamloops. My dad was a dentist, and my mom ran his office. Really, my ... to working as a general pediatrician at BC Children’s Hospital, Dr Kang works with the Social Pediatrics Program in ...
Obituaries / BY: Kevin Elwood, MD September 2025
... on 9 January 2025 in the confines of Vancouver General Hospital, where he spent the majority of his career working ... In 1961, he became a resident physician at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, moving to the University of ... respiratory medicine, with every intention of returning to my home country. I still have the telegram, and I am listed ...
Letters / BY: Tahmeena Ali, MD, CCFP, FCFP December 2025
... over 2 decades of longitudinal family practice, including hospital care, maternity care, and rural experience, is meaningless to many of my patients because I’m not a “specialist” is eroding my love of family medicine. I imagine many general ...
MDs To Be / BY: Taewoong Chae, MD September 2025
... for assessing patient satisfaction, such as the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and ... this quality improvement project at the BC Children’s Hospital Spinal Cord Clinic, a multidisciplinary clinic that ... subject of each statement was changed from “I” to “my child,” because parents typically completed the survey. ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC March 2025
... library. In response, I wrote an editorial expressing my disappointment.[ 1 ] As you may recall, this closure was ... the closure of the Library has significantly impacted my research mentorship for medical students and residents. I ... we may still have access to resources through hospital librarians or UBC. But many of us relied entirely on ...