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News / BY: Sam Bugis, MD July/August 2011
... around BC. Despite the complexity of running an operating room (OR), most patients are provided with the highest ... on the BCMA’s website:  www.bcma.org/publications-media/policy-statements-papers .  —S. Bugis, MD Chair, ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD October 2009
... the severity of this year’s flu season might be, the media has perpetuated the H1N1 hype to such a degree that we ... should be made available at the entrance to the waiting room with a sign explaining that patients who arrive with ... patients with flu symptoms. Perhaps segregate your waiting room, if possible, or have patients with flu symptoms ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD January/February 2008
... to one. Initial presentation Upon entering the examining room I was stopped in my tracks. The patient, a 43-year-old ... 114/78, heart rate 116, and oxygen saturation 98% on room air. Diagnosis was bilateral pneumonia, which was ... interests None declared. Acknowledgment Mike Noon, media services technologist, Fraser Health. An extremely ill ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, October 2007
... paper A Prescription for Quality. Each garnered a lot of media and member response. Following this was the CMA’s ... maneuver between the chickens in the open-walled emergency room. The suture used looked like 00 green nylon in large ...
News / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2006
... with traditional dialysis, as well as fewer emergency room visits and less frequent need for hospitalization. For ... it quite clear that the darling of the North American media in the early years of this decade was a long way from ... drug company, the university, the hospital hierarchy, the media, some of her colleagues, and Dr Olivieri herself should ...
President's Comment / BY: Jack Burak, MD June 2005
... profession. I have had many interesting and stimulating media interviews concerning the sustainability of our ... experienced by our patients. Waiting times, emergency room chaos, lack of sufficient acute care hospital beds, ... I attempted to improve our image with the public and the media as well as converse with government in an attempt to ...
President's Comment / BY: Jack Burak, MD March 2005
... by politicians and health care providers on the news media. I’ve talked publicly about the need to ensure the ... up more operating rooms and give surgeons more operating room time. There are many other constant and perennial health ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce B. Forster, MD, MSc, FRCPC May 2005
... a number of clinical scenarios. Studies in the emergency room setting have shown a zero score to be highly accurate in ... indeed, other noninvasive tests such as carotid intima-media thickness testing, will be forthcoming at the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn Thorpe, MD, FRCPC
... so that all youth with diabetes are kept together in a room separate from their parents as they rotate through their ... visits with health professionals. If youth are in the same room with their peers during breaks, they may form ... diabetes, which could then be maintained easily via social media networking.  Another suggestion based on student ...
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