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Clinical Articles / BY: Leila Srour, MD January/February 2000
... vaccine and only 1% with pneumococcal vaccine.[ 4 ] In BC, influenza vaccine is provided free of charge to people ... activity in health-care facilities and schools across BC.[ 5 ] All parties report to the BC Centre for Disease ... The 44 sentinel physicians (less than 1% of practising doctors in BC) documented over 3000 patient visits due to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Colin Hansen, MLA June 2000
... in our province. We have a situation in which the only way BC hospitals can meet their budgets is to turn away patients ... must be expanded to allow our students to train to become doctors rather than relying on doctors trained in other jurisdictions. Likewise, the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: BCMJ Editorial Board June 2000
... 100th birthday. To celebrate this milestone, the  BC Medical Journal  has published, since the July/August ... ahead. We asked spokespeople in the various sectors of BC medicine to look into the future and write a short article ... participation in that change, the need to train more doctors in BC, the upcoming use of technology at the point of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leo Wong, MD June 2000
In its relatively short history, PAR-BC has had significant links with the BCMA. Our two ... great pride that many BCMA leaders were once active in PAR-BC. Physicians such as Dr Arun Garg, Dr Derryck Smith, Dr Ian ... bottom line is that there are not enough “home grown” doctors in British Columbia. For the 1997–98 period, ...
Editorials / BY: Mike Farnworth, MLA June 2000
... future, we’ll need to rely on the advice of the experts: BC’s doctors. I believe we share a common goal with doctors—protecting and improving access to care for all ...
Editorials / BY: David Doty, MD June 2000
When the  BC Medical Journal  approached me for my thoughts on where ... way to control health-care costs was to cut the number of doctors and nurses entering university. This was manna from ... the ORs or the ICUs. In the next 5 years, we will have no doctors either. The average age of a general surgeon in ...
Editorials / BY: Bill Cavers, MD June 2000
... producing enough medical graduates to replace losses, and BC has the fewest medical students per capita of any Canadian ... Already, this shortage is being felt across the province. Doctors in both rural and urban areas are unable even to find ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP July/August 2000
... suggest things are only going to get worse. Training more doctors likely will not correct the problem, since it is believed Canada already has enough trained doctors. The problem is primarily one of poor ... evidence has pointed to a crisis in rural medicine in BC for years, but quantitative data have been scant—until ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C.J. Sedergreen, MBBS September 2000
... to massage therapy. Discussions with physicians across BC indicate that many doctors are perplexed by these requests. They are unclear as ... 1 ] relating to alternative and complementary therapies, doctors may have cause to take another look at these ...