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Letters / BY: Richard Loomer, MD, July/August 2006
... training capacity, and ultimately the output of new doctors, will falter and both the government and the public ... and control” are not compatible. This is why the BC Medical Association has decided to enter the picture and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) July/August 2006
... and alternative medicine (CAM) is reported to be common in BC as it is in Canada in general. With the assistance of the ... response profile matched that of physicians in BC overall. Doctors were asked about how often they enquired about their ... been used for at least some patients by roughly 20% of the doctors surveyed. Others from the list were used rarely or ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Humer, MD, FRCSC, July/August 2006
... (oral communication, P. Blumel, cartographer, Province of BC, 22 September 2005). People living in the expanse of BC beyond the well-populated southwest region have ... with patients in real time in the offices of their family doctors. Acknowledgments The authors wish to thank the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2006
... Dr Coward, with letters of support from the BC Civil Liberties Association and the BC Persons with AIDS ... me into action. “The first was the dispute between rural doctors and the government in 2000. We were in jeopardy of ... in a designated rural community. Another is based on new doctors committing to a full service family practice located ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2006
... pretty diverse. It was my husband who wanted to move to BC; in Rossland, where we live now, there are 3500 people. So ... that prepared me for when they say, “Attention all doctors, code 99 ICU,” and what it actually means is, ... it’s so small. District 14 has only a couple of hundred doctors in it, and my own hospital has about 60 physicians. ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD September 2006
... the firmly stated political wishes of a majority of BC’s physicians and put forward their own preferred ... would even consider trampling all over the rights of BC’s physicians. Such action would reflect a paternalistic ... with very little thought to the democratic rights of the doctors in BC. I wonder what will be the next freedom deemed ...
President's Comment October 2006
... is something I care very deeply about. We are fortunate in BC to have an exceptional program that safely and ... The demands on the program are continually mounting as doctors struggle with a complex, rapidly changing work ... and well-being is that we prevent what is preventable. Doctors need to be educated, informed, and empowered starting ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD October 2006
... but never met. Medical politics is always a hot topic with doctors, and our list of faculty and medical dignitaries ... sure that will be generated by an opportunity to meet with BC’s energetic and often controversial provincial and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Basil Boulton, MD October 2006
The  BC Children and Youth Review  by Ted Hughes addresses many ... for millennia, but it is only in recent times that doctors have developed the scientific basis for the ... support. The medical system should not be complacent. Doctors should not opt out or be excluded from areas where ...
Back Page / BY: E.F. Vreede, MD, October 2006
... the Owl Call My Name, but the vastness and beauty of the BC coast, its inlets and islands, its mountains and sheer ... up in Holland was not much of a preparation to tackle the BC wilderness. Without a doubt, the UBC rural family practice ... of innovations since coming to Port McNeill, including doctors visits to small, isolated Aboriginal villages such as ...