September

1916 - 2006

Turn into wind
Flaps 20°
Water rudders retracted
Full throttle
Onto the step
Airborne
Float spray dissipates into slipstream
Flaps up
Gentle climbing turn to port
Trim and set course

After a brief combat with malignancy, Reg set forth on his ultimate cross-country flight. Two months short of his 90th birthday, he had left no stones unturned. In the week before being admitted to Surrey Memorial Hospital he had carried out his role as an aviation medical examiner.  

1925 - 2006

Ron was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, where he attended high school. He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a BSc in biology. He attended the University of Manitoba where he obtained his MD following a 1-year internship at the Winnipeg General Hospital.

Well, after only a few weeks “on the job” I am already realizing that, though demanding, being president of the BCMA has many positive elements—the opportunity to meet many fascinating and stimulating people, to speak publicly on interesting topics, and to lend my knowledge and expertise in different areas.

On 1 January 2008, WorkSafeBC will implement new Occupational Health and Safety Regulation guidelines to minimize health care workers’ potential occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens and other biohazardous materials. If you are an employer and your workplace uses hollow-bore needles to collect blood or treat patients, you must establish the following engineering and work practice controls:

Modern medicine bears traces of the early influences of the healing traditions of classical Greece and Rome as found in the mystical traditions of the ancient cult of Asklepios and the scientific, observational practices of the Hippocratic school.

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