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Letters June 2014
... Of interest to you might be an article published in the May 2009 issue of the  Journal of the American College of Surgeons .[ ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2013
... noise   Dr John O’Brien-Bell requested an update on the issue of noise. He first raised the issue at last year’s ... this policy, noting that members were not consulted and may have objections. Dr Ross explained that the BCMA was not ... for a division of family practice back in October of 2009, and was one of the proto­types. It is a prime example ...
Letters / BY: Andrew Farquhar, MD June 2012
... issues in lifestyle counseling. In the BCMJ April issue I was glad to see the Council on Health Promotion ... makes them depressed, and adds to the negative image they may al­ready have of themselves. Despite occasional ... and exercise at the World Diabetes Congress in Montreal in 2009 I came across a paper by Ross and Janiszewsky raising ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC June 2012
Opioid overdose is a public health issue in British Columbia. In 2009, more than 200 deaths were identified as illicit drug ... were in persons prescribed opioid medication.[ 3 ]  In May 2011, the BC Coroners Service released a warning about a ...
News&Notes / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2011
... with the UBC Faculty of Medicine. He pointed out that the issue of “transparency” that had been mentioned on ... from broken families and families in distress. They may be in government care. Or they may have parents with ... According to a study completed by Statistics Canada in 2009, Canadian children as a whole are ‘taller, heavier, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: James Johnston, MD, FRCPC, October 2010
... both staff and other patients at risk. As of December 2009, there were 2720 patients enrolled in provincial ... recommendations The most recent guidelines addressing the issue were published by the British Thoracic Society. They ... early screening in high-risk CKD pa­tients, as anergy may be less of a confounder in those with less advanced ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2010
... Dr Erik Paterson from Creston mentioned the perennial issue of low attendance at these meetings, stating that he ... at AGMs is the norm for similar organizations. It may be that, given the many opportunities for input that ... of Dr Don Rix, chair of the committee until his death in 2009, were acknowledged by a moment of silence by those ...
Letters / BY: Bernie Littlejohn, September 2009
... I found Dr McMahen’s comments on EMR in the June issue particularly interesting (“Ready or not”  BCMJ 2009;51[5]:190 ). Implementation of an information system ... to see that a fully functional system is developed, you may get something that is more of a millstone than an asset. ...
Letters / BY: N.P. Blair, MD, June 2009
... see " Specialists and EMR adoption ” published in the May issue of the BCMJ. (2009;51[4]:154).—ED. Letters EMRs and specialists ...
Letters / BY: Jeremy Smith, September 2009
... will respond to Dr Blair’s original letter from the June issue (“EMRs and specialists” BCMJ 2009;51[5]: 190) and Dr Hwang’s response concurrently. ... address the challenges and opportunities outlined in the May BCMJ  article “Specialists and EMR Adoption” ( ...