2001

Every once in a while life throws us a curve ball that forces us to pause and maybe even re-evaluate the way we carry out the business of living.

A few years ago two very close friends of mine flew to a small interior city to carry out an organ retrieval. There were delays, as there always are. The OR in the small hospital was slow and they were late getting clearance to take off to go back to Vancouver. They were several hours behind schedule, finally leaving in the middle of the night.

Last April, Dr George Szasz resigned from the College’s Library Committee after 40 years. He has served longer than any Library staff member. His guidance supported efficient access to medical knowledge for members across BC via their College Library. He saw the shift from the print to the electronic era and ensured the appropriate application of new technology in the Library.

Introduction

The ability of conventional external beam radiation therapy to control both malignant and benign lesions may be limited by the radiation dose that can be administered, which, in turn, is limited by the tolerance of the volume of normal tissue that is also irradiated. Stereotactic irradiation attempts to overcome these limitations through the accurate delivery of irradiation to targets precisely localized in three dimensions.[1]

Introduction

"In a world where half of all pregnancies are accidents, and accidents lead to unexpected children, or abortions, or two decades of support payments, it would arguably behoove men to wise up and shoulder more responsibility for the birth control burden.” —Esquire Magazine, October 1999.

Introduction

Farabloc was devised by Frieder Kempe in 1978 in an effort to relieve phantom limb pain experienced by a family member. Initial work by G.L. Bach reported beneficial effects on phantom limb pain and later suggested that Farabloc may also reduce rheumatic pain (unpublished report, 1990).