October

Platelet-rich plasma offers mixed success in treating tendinopathies
The concept of using growth factors contained in activated platelets to help wound healing dates back to the early 1980s. More recently, the use of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) to treat various musculo­skeletal disorders, including tendin­o­pathies, has increas­ed tremendously.

Though Hammy Boucher and his partner Hector Gillespie were both superb orthopaedic surgeons, they were the antithesis of each other. 

Hammy was a hard man, stern and sometimes distant. He ate up interns and residents at Vancouver General Hospital and Shaughnessy Veteran Hospital every morning for breakfast, at rounds, and later in the day as a nightly snack. Hec was an affable, chunky man with a great bedside manner, a good teacher, and the football doc for the BC Lions professional football club. 

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What profession might you have pursued, if not medicine?
Engineer, sculptor, or astronaut.

Which talent would you most like to have?
Photographic memory, or being a “supertaster.”

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So, are you enjoying being BCMA president? What is it like?”