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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 ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bill Cavers, MD April 2013
... taken on the attachment challenge. A study conducted in 2007–2008 by Victoria-based Hollander Analytical Services ... Practice Services Committee (GPSC) began work on this issue in 2010 and initially provided funding to three ... With the launch of the attachment initiative, any division may now ac­cess funding for attachment initiatives. Given ...
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 ...
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&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: 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 ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2007
The article in the March issue of  BCMJ  ( “Self-report of use of traditional ... a cross-cultural psychiatry outpatient clinic,” 2007;49[2]:68-71 ) reported 20% of Chinese patients attending ... and not specifically for emotional symptoms. Panax ginseng may cause manic-like symptoms when combined with monoamine ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD March 2007
I read with concern the Vancouver Sun article of 4 January 2007, in which Dr Penny Ballem states that she has good data ... to aggressively “treat to target,” so a patient may not be started on oral agents early enough or, if a ... for glycemic control, but diabetes management is a complex issue and isn’t just a question of blood glucose levels. ...
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 ...