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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bill Cavers, MD April 2013
... as “A GP for Me.”  Funding will be available as of 1 April on two levels: to divisions of family practice to begin ... on the attachment challenge. A study conducted in 2007–2008 by Victoria-based Hollander Analytical Services Ltd. ... Practice Services Committee (GPSC) began work on this issue in 2010 and initially provided funding to three ...
Obituaries / BY: James E Parker, MB June 2011
... of Dr Leslie Glass noted in the obituary column of the April issue of the BCMJ has relevance to our spanking new hospital ... a supplement of the Abbotsford News published on 6 March 2008. Dr Glass’s relocation there in the early 1970s played ...
Letters / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS January/February 2010
Dr Frimer has raised an issue relating to the extension of coverage under the ... Insurance (PDI) Plan to age 70 that took effect on 1 April 2008.  Prior to this change, coverage under the PDI Plan ...
Letters / BY: Richard Beever, MD June 2008
... for your recent and excellent series on COPD in the March issue of BCMJ [ 2008;50:78-102 ]. Many excellent points were raised. I am looking forward to the April issue. Recent studies seem to “hyper-inflate” the ...
Letters / BY: David J. Brant, MD, July/August 2008
... Ian MacDonald’s comments in the letter published in the April issue of the BCMJ resonate with my own [ 2008;50:123-124 ], and more particularly with my own ...
News&Notes / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2008
7 June 2008, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George ... of General Practitioners of BC for their patience on this issue. Dr Bryan Norton, president of the Society of General ... raised the subject of BCMA governance referendum. Though April’s referendum did not achieve the 75% approval rate ...
Letters / BY: Jack Burak, MD November 2008
We refer to the ICBC article in the April 2008 issue of the BC Medical Journal, 2008;50:127, titled ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB December 2008
... policy, planning, administration, and politics. A May 2008 Angus-Reid poll placed doctors—with a 94% ... on health care. The timing is right to win on this very issue. With 68% support, no political party need fear the ... ceiling above which none shall rise. It was introduced on April Fool’s day, 1984, and was based on the Sas­katchewan ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Basil Boulton, MD October 2007
... and Youth Health introduced at the Child Health Summit in April by the Canadian Medical Association, the Canadian ... or lessen many of these problems. In the July/August 2005 issue of the BCMJ, the Child and Youth Health Committee ... to be ready for presentation to the BCMA Board by April, 2008, in preparation for the BCMA AGM, followed closely by ...
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 ... of February. Interested vendors had until the beginning of April to submit their proposals, and up to a maximum of six ... this summer, with further implementation starting in early 2008. For more information, please refer to the February PITO ...