November

WorkSafeBC’s provision of health care benefits focuses on supporting attending physicians in following evidence-based medical best practices. The goal is to achieve optimum outcomes and safe return to work for injured workers.

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We live in a time of exciting innovation in technology—innovation that has the potential to allow us to provide higher-quality care, and to provide it more easily. I say potential because we have all experienced a new way of doing business, or using a new gizmo, that has actually made things worse. Part of the problem is that, often, technology is developed and then a use for it needs to be found. I passionately believe that clinical needs must shape the use of technology and not the other way around.

I have been feeling a bit tired lately, more so than I think may be normal for someone my age. Over the course of a few months it had gotten to the point where it was starting to concern me. I wondered if I was just being lazy or working too much. Perhaps it was just a symptom of aging that I would have to learn to deal with. Then I started to wonder if there was an underlying issue as to why I was feeling this way. So I turned to the first place I go whenever I have a mysterious symptom or medical concern, and it’s not my family doctor. It’s the Internet.

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With great sadness we announce that Professor Emeritus Roger A.L. Sutton, DM, FRCPC, died on 10 September after a courageous 2-year battle with bladder cancer. Dr Sutton led an extraordinary life of accomplishment, adventure, and family. He will be deeply missed by his loving and devoted wife, Wendy, to whom he was happily married for 52 years, and his two proud daughters, Fiona and Nicola.