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Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2008
... a journalist who just happened to be doing an article on doctors and needed a photograph of a doctor carrying a ...  on several occasions, as well as, at one point, in the  BC Medical Journal  be­cause the photo was used in an ad ... and demands about and for this test in many unprepared doctors’ offices around the province. Most docs hadn’t ...
Letters / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP March 2008
... this was having a step goal such as 10000 steps per day.  Doctors in BC will have opportunity in 2008 to promote pedo­meter use ...
News / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla March 2008
... wise. …” • Dr Frank Turnbull, in 1925—“When the doctors of BC were debating whether they should secede from the CMA and ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, April 2008
... the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) to support BC’s family physicians. “In modern family practice, the ... the CDM toolkit. Using the secure, web-based toolkit, doctors and MOAs fill out patient flowsheets based on ... CDM toolkit is a clinical information system that helps doctors manage their patients who have chronic conditions. ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG April 2008
... to do. And since the BCMJ is a journal produced by the doctors of BC for the doctors of BC, the lighter side of practice is reflected in ...
Obituaries / BY: Eileen Cambon, MD, May 2008
... small hospital with 25 beds. The hospital was staffed with doctors and nurses who were also interned in the camp. With ... in New York on 12 December 1951, and reached Victoria, BC, on Boxing Day.  As foreign graduates they were required ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, May 2008
Trail BC family physician Dr Blair Stanley is training to do ... last fall,” says Dr Stanley. “So few of our local doctors were doing primary care obstetrics that we almost ... physicians in the program, and we’re hoping to get more doctors involved,” he says. “The goal is to build a large ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD May 2008
... become a politically important item—at least here in BC where the current government has increased the size of the ... medical school will eventually graduate two-thirds of the doctors this province requires yearly just to keep up with ... world also finds itself doctor-deficient, and Irish doctors, British doctors, and South African doctors are no ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) May 2008
... those nations are enviably high. Public health programs in BC do a creditable job of ensuring that infants and ... as patients without access to a GP, re­mote areas without doctors, or situations where physicians do not offer ... (given the regularity with which patients go to their doctors with a list of problems).  It would be difficult to ...
News&Notes June 2008
... province.  When medical care insurance was established in BC (initially on an entirely private insurer basis), the ... been adopted.  A deliberate decision was made to have doctors submit claims and, other than undertaking a few basic ... by both parties that, apart from a small minority, doctors were honest and it would be unfair to penalize the ...