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Letters / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD October 2018
... on Astrocite III , faithfully recorded in the June 1968 issue. Or just let yourself go with “The man who stopped ... Moralis, MD (pseudonym of the retired psychiatrist) in the May 2008 issue. Then you might as well switch back to the January/February 2007 issue and read Dr Leslie Andrew’s humor: “When I ...
News&Notes / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, December 2010
... decided that something had to be done to resolve this issue. In April 1791 Captain George Vancouver ( Figure 1 ) ... 9 ] also suggests the possibility of renal disease, which may have been secondary to a streptococcal or viral infection ... Vancouver Arm in Dusky Sound, New Zealand.  On 22 June 2007 a ceremony at the Vancouver Maritime Museum ...
News July/August 2010
... regions in BC over a 4-year period. Published in the June issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology, the UBC study examined all deliveries in BC between 2004 and 2007 and found an average of 21.2 per 100 deliveries were ... system. The researchers suggest potential reasons may include the differences in practitioners’ responses to ...
Letters / BY: Michael Dettman, MD, March 2008
... to do a history and physical [“ Back to basics ,” BCMJ 2007;49:530]. Her des­cription of a “young emergency ... such jobs on the ground floor of hospitals. This editorial may change the face of emergency medicine and the ... course, the requisite extensive and lengthy study of the issue. —Michael Dettman, MD Emergency physician, VGH ...
News&Notes / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2008
... Association and referred them to his written report in the 2007/08 annual reports. Following reports by Drs Mark ... of General Practitioners of BC for their patience on this issue. Dr Bryan Norton, president of the Society of General ... membership. We also need to reach out to physicians who may feel disenfranchised.   I firmly believe the BCMA is ...
Letters / BY: H. Davis, MD, June 2008
... Anderson and Shao Hua Lu [ BCMJ 2008;50(1):11 ] have taken issue with some of the comments made in my article published in your journal in November 2007 [ BCMJ 2007;49(9):495 ], where I did express concern ... or confused. • Focal neurological deficits that may or may not be transient. As can be seen, and I emphasized ...
News / BY: Tara Lyon April 2007
... a little book about the flu (reviewed in the December 2006 issue) and thinks he is an author. The “Laminator” has ... influenza was conducted in Cranbrook on 20 February 2007. As a member of the Psychosocial Issues Committee of the ... in a responsible manner is often a challenge. Patients may bring in their unused meds to doctors’ offices, and ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2007
... became involved with the BCMA, were you motivated by some issue or problem that you wanted to solve? I was probably ... with the job the BCMA is doing. In a poll on governance in 2007, 74% of members said the Board was doing a good job ... the BCMA. The societies are doing a good job, and in fact, may need more help to do things. They’re doing a huge ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Faulkner, MBChB July/August 2007
... “Reality check needed for CME credits” ( BCMJ  2007;49[3]:109) , which included a partial, out-of-context ... and integrative medicine beliefs (see  Globe and Mail , May 1999). His involvement in the very unscientific “harm ... in reading some of the skeptical accounts of this issue ( e.g.,  http://dreamhealer.blogspot.com/ ). Dr ...
News July/August 2007
... be read on its own. Those not facing a terminal illness may wish to focus on the introduction as well as the sections ... Open Enrollment will be coming your way in the September issue of the  BCMJ. —Sandie Braid, CEBS Assistant ... mental health resources printed in the May issue ( BCMJ  2007;49:181 ), Richmond now has an early childhood mental ...