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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 ...
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 ...
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 .[ ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD June 2013
... this editorial is about you, the physician, who on 1 April 2014 will be handed the spoils of the failed Health Canada ... only for medical marijuana! Some physicians may see a Seagram-like business opportunity[ 5 ] in the ... authorization and dispensing of medical marijuana. The issue of how physicians will be audited for authorizing a ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) November 2013
... to 80%, and will likely reach 85% or more by 31 March 2014. With PITO (Physician Information Technology Office) ... physicians set to retire in the next couple of years, it may make sense to forgo the expense and time-consuming ... typed emergency record the very next morning? In this issue of the BCMJ you can read more about this topic and ...
Blog / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC
... distribution.[ 2 ] Inequality has become a hot button issue in the politics of Western liberal democracies. It has ... amplify results. Farnum Street [blog]. Accessed 15 May 2019. https://fs.blog/2017/11/power-laws .  2.   ... century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 2014. 4.    Koppl R, Devereaux A, Herriot J, Kauffman S. A ...
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