2024

With heavy hearts, we announce that Dr Asoke Dutt, 95, passed away peacefully earlier this year.

Dr Thomas Paul Broome and I both sang in the Victoria Choral Society for years. He was a bass, while I’m a tenor. More than once, he shared, “The tenors sound good.”

On the 1-year anniversary of Dr Tracy Pickett’s passing, we would like to take a moment to remember our dear colleague, mentor, and friend.

When I started my practice of internal medicine in Comox back in 1979, patients had better access to health care than they do now.

In their recent article “Deteriorating wait times for breast cancer patients at a regional hospital in BC, 2013 versus 2023,” Hwang and colleagues nicely summarized the crisis in the breast cancer diagnosis and treatment system, not just in their regional centre, but also in all of British Columbia.