November

Here’s what WorkSafeBC has to offer patients suffering from work-related amputations.

Each year in BC approximately 50 people suffer work-related injuries that result in significant amputation above or below the elbow or the knee.* For those individuals, WorkSafeBC offers the following enhanced services:

Amputee specialist in the Richmond Visiting Specialist Clinic (VSC)

Physiatrist Dr Rhonda Willms has joined the VSC as an amputee specialist. The services she provides include:

Although most physicians are quite familiar with the compensation arrangements of the Working Agreement, we know much less about the equally important Master Agreement. The Master Agreement is the blueprint that governs the role of physicians in providing medical care in BC. It provides the foundation for the working relationship with government and is often referred to as the physicians’ Charter of Rights. Each re-negotiation of the Master Agreement is a significant undertaking.

Dr Carl Kline was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. During the Great Depression, he worked his way through Northwestern Medical School in Chicago. Subsequently, he served as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy Medical Corp for 5 years. His first-hand exposure to the psychological trauma war inflicted on soldiers (which he came to see as often being more crippling than the physical injuries) led him to become fascinated with psychiatry. He undertook his postgraduate training in psychiatry and neurology at St.

 Call for nominations

BCMA and CMA Special Awards
 

BCMA Silver Medal of Service Award

BCMA members are encouraged to nominate physicians or laypersons for the BCMA Silver Medal of Service award. The medal will be presented at the BCMA’s Annual General Meeting in June 2006.