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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 ...
News / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD March 2015
... project seeking literary works described in the September 2014 issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:349 ) is meant to honor existing ... meantime, an information seeker visiting abcbookworld.com may search for the key words “physician author” to find ...
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 ...
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: C. Eve Rotem, MD, July/August 2014
... all too often. I am glad to see discussions on this thorny issue are finally beginning. Without an accepted policy being ... this difficult problem (to the best of our abilities in 2014). And I believe the problem should be discussed with a ... years. This discussion has been started in the April and May issues of the  BC Medical Journal  and that is an ...
News July/August 2014
... in Antiviral Immunity,” is published in the May 2014 issue of  Nature Medicine  and is available online ...
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 ...
News October 2014
The quality of health care that people receive may be as important as controlling the risk factors--smoking, ... and High-Income Countries," is published in the 28 August 2014 issue of the  New England Journal of Medicine  and is ...