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Billing Tips / BY: Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP December 2022
... article on this topic originally appeared in the November 2014 issue of the BCMJ . As this subject continues to pose a ... Committee decided to revisit the topic. While physicians may view documentation of services as time-consuming, it is ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Thomas S. Watson, MD, DPhil March 2021
... and Wylie of Laval University conducted a short review in 2014 and identified what they viewed as the most significant issue with existing studies supporting ultrasound: the ... physicians at initial presentation of minor blunt trauma may in fact speed up rib fracture diagnosis by helping triage ...
MDs To Be / BY: Azzra Mangalji, MD October 2019
In 2014 the BC Ministry of Health’s report, “Setting ... online retailers to identify additional products a shopper may be interested in based on their previous purchases.[ 6 ] ... representation of populations has been a long-standing issue in the academic community. For example, the Framingham ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
... you’re looking at this scientifically, you might have an issue with the correlation of use to health risks, because one “daily user” may smoke all day, every day, and another “daily user” ... urine drug screen, more than quadrupled between 2005 and 2014 (from 146 to 639).[ 25 ] That trend will continue ...
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.  ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2016
... in health care today. We need not look further than the 2014 comparative scorecard from the Commonwealth Fund ... like to bring to the Board this year is temperance. This may help us be more efficient with our work.” . . . “To ... is not a productive use of our time and energy. The issue is that our two work models simply clash. Doctors are ...
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 ...
MDs To Be / BY: Ben Chan, BSc, January/February 2016
... numerous avenues to introduce great change. Some changes may be for the better (such as Dr Semmelweis’s pioneering ... support your work, even if they are passionate about the issue. The goal should also be specific enough for you to be ... numerous businesses and prominent individuals. In 2014 Dr Rai received the Governor General’s Caring Canadian ...
Letters June 2014
... happy to read [Dr Richardson’s] March editorial ( BCMJ  2014;56:73 ) last week—I am seriously behind on my reading. ... Of interest to you might be an article published in the May 2009 issue of the  Journal of the American College of Surgeons .[ ...
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 ...