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James A. Wilson, MD
At a 2004 meeting of the Canadian Bar Association, the attendees voted against official censure of any member who participated in a sexual relationship with a client. The thinking apparently is that there is a far... Read More
In the 21st century the majority of medical/scientific journals require their authors to provide conflict of interest statements with their manuscripts. The reasons for this are obvious, particularly for outcome studies... Read More
The BCMJ publishes 10 issues per year and three or four of those are so-called theme issues. We know from readership surveys that a substantial majority of readers appreciate them. We have always tried to... Read More
Editorial writing in this province is generally a piece of cake. There is so much stuff happening most of the time that editorialists like me have the luxury of picking a topic from a potpourri of very sexy, very... Read More
Fate often has a nasty habit of biting you in the nether regions when you least expect it. Recently, on a rainy weekend day with a clear head and heavily encumbered with an air of ass-bite indifference, I picked up a... Read More
A few years ago we started the Good Guys section in the BCMJ and wrote a couple of articles about individuals who had made a difference, and we invited you to follow suit. However, the entreaty never tapped... Read More
Medical staff bylaws have been a bit of a sticky problem for BC’s hospitals for many years. There has never been a province-wide design requirement that all hospital medical staff bylaws were supposed to follow, despite... Read More
In this month’s issue there is a letter from a colleague complaining that by publishing a recent article on the treatment of fibromyalgia with acupuncture (2004;46(1):21-23) the BCMJ may have done a... Read More
For two days in February, Canada’s first ministers met in Vancouver to discuss common concerns and develop strategies to deal with the bad news indicators that kept leaking out of Ottawa’s back rooms. This was... Read More
Sometime in the next few months the members of the Supreme Court of Canada will convene to hear an application by two Canadian citizens. The application challenges the ability of the Canada Health Act to prevent... Read More