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Premise /
BY: Martin C. Wale, BM BS, FRCPath, MBA
March 2017
... by the Physician Specialist Services Advisory Committee in 2014. Following this, further work on the Cochrane ... supports (training, simulation experience, etc.) may be required to maintain currency in the context of service requirements. Where collection of data is an issue, this should be raised in that conversation. ...
Point Counterpoint /
BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC
December 2016
... to those they care for, and they do work while sick and may transmit influenza while asymptomatically shedding ... the arbitrator in Ontario that Mr Offley quotes) is on the issue of whether there is any additional benefit to an ... of protection from year to year (from the low of 13% in 2014–15 to over 80% in 2010–11 in Canada with an accepted ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews /
BY: Joanne Jablkowski
September 2016
... all the generalist pieces of being a family doctor my dad may not have had an opportunity that day to receive the best ... the health care needs of our populations. What health care issue do you think is not getting enough attention right now? ... First, the Commonwealth Fund released a report in late 2014 showing that Canada scores 10th out of 11 in First World ...
Point Counterpoint /
BY: Will Offley, RN
December 2016
... are not the same thing. There are many ways an individual may be infected with influenza despite having had the annual ... As an example, many infections occurred in the 2014–15 flu season when there was a mismatch between the ... and in the absence of an outbreak.”[ 12 ] Also at issue is the practical matter of wearing masks. It appears ...
Editorials /
BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC
September 2015
Dr Margaret Colbourne Following the 2014 release of “Lost in the Shadows” from the ... physicians of their legal obligation to report a child who may be in need of protection, as well as guiding them through ... of these children. This is the first of a two-part theme issue on child maltreatment. The first article is a brief ...
Interviews /
BY: Joanne Jablkowski
September 2014
... entire system is never going to be fixed--as soon as one issue is addressed, major or minor, something else crops up. ... find that if you hear people out and you work together, it may take more time, but when you achieve a consensus decision ... Q&A with Dr Bill Cavers: Doctors of BC President 2014-15 ...
Letters /
BY: William Gardner, MBChB,
April 2014
On 10 February 2014, André Picard’s column in the Globe and Mail ... I was heartened to see that the January/February 2014 issue of the BC Medical Journal had four items on the ... issues. The core problem is a moral one. Though we may disagree with our patients’ moral values, in most cases ...
Premise /
BY: Jon Slater, MD, FRCPC, MBA,
September 2014
... Iglesias, Johnston, Klein, Ruddiman, and Woollard [ BCMJ 2014;56:326-327 ] with some concern. We accept that change ... for this to occur and for discussions on how comfort may be maintained or restored. Second, we must not confuse ... for the practising physician. We are interested in this issue, but it is beyond the scope of our project. Other ...
Letters /
BY: Kobus de Jager, MBBS
September 2014
... average citizen, and perhaps even the average physician, may view death with dignity, a good death, aid in dying, ... physician-assisted suicide as of the same species ( BCMJ 2014;56:6 ). But criminal law draws sharp distinctions ... terminate their life on request? Anyone debating this issue, be it for or against physician-assisted suicide, needs ...