September

I am writing in response to Dr Jack Burak’s excellent article from April 2005 entitled, “BC’s technologically challenged health care system” (BCMJ 2005;47[3]:128). His points are well taken and I could not be more in agreement.

It is with interest and some disappointment that I read your study by Thommasen and colleagues, “The relationship between physician visits and some quality of life indicators” (BCMJ 2005;47(4):188-192).

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Predeceased by his wife Audrey, and following a lengthy illness, Don leaves behind to mourn his loving wife Anita, son Paul (Jackie), daughter Ann (David), son Brent (Hicks), daughter Wendy (Hicks), sister, Betty (Harry), and grandchildren, nieces, and nephews.

Don was born in Vancouver and took high school in Duncan. He apprenticed as a pharmacist at McGill and Orme in Victoria, was registered with the BC College of Pharmacy, and worked as a pharmacist in Prince Rupert. He joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1942, serving as a gunnery officer on corvettes and minesweepers.

Many BC physicians have lost confidence in the province’s drug review process through the Therapeutics Initiative. Here are some solutions.

There is a growing concern in Canada and particularly in British Columbia that the public is not being well served by government policies for coverage of licensed medicines. This concern in British Columbia has led to the formation of a Pharmacare Coalition, made up of a large number of non-profit organizations to pressure government to supply, under the Pharmacare plan, medications for patients with chronic diseases.

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