News&Notes

The following physicians have died over the past year; please consider submitting a piece for our In Memoriam section if you knew the deceased well.

Nicotine feeds the primitive brain, so when smokers try to quit (using their frontal lobes), they are at war with themselves. New research gives us more ammunition to help smokers win the battle.

The following physicians have died over the past year; please consider submitting a piece for our “in memoriam” section to the BCMJ if you knew the deceased well.

13 May 2009
Wall Centre Hotel, Vancouver

The 2009 BCMA Annual General Meeting was back in Vancouver after a trip to Prince George last year. This year’s business session had 175 members registered to attend—one of the largest ever gatherings at a BCMA annual general meeting, and a far cry from the dismal attendance records at meetings past.

Today the pages of the 1962 bound volume of the British Columbia Medical Journal are yellow with age. The journal is in its heyday of 6" X 91/2" pages, with type set in a single column. The typography is muscular and clear; the ads, from today’s vantage point, are variously charming, naive, stylish, and sexist. The first Xerox machines are being acquired, and the medical scene in BC is still small enough that the Journal carries monthly notices of hospital rounds and clinics, of new practices, and new babies.