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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kate Smolina, DPhil, CHE Early online
... well-being and result in significant costs to the health care system.[ 1 ] In BC, the number of people living ... and are available by age group, sex, and geographic health region. Information on gender is not available. For ... BC Observatory for Population & Public Health, BCCDC Notes The BC Chronic Disease Registries are produced by the ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD March 2021
... little anger, a few tears, a departure from their speaking notes. Others demonstrate care through service, such as pinch ... We need to convince more people to follow public health directions, even as high-risk and vulnerable people ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD November 2021
... colleagues on the front lines, people working in public health, politicians, government employees, health care researchers, and teachers … the list goes on. ... to contribute to it. I’m going to keep sending thank-you notes to people. I’m going to keep encouraging people who ...
President's Comment / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD June 2019
... office day in my community family practice. Periodic health/preventive exams, and geriatric and counseling visits ... 8:30 a.m. patients arrive seeking advice from the trusted health care professional that has looked after them for 26 ... their care. I am “the best doctor ever.” Several chart notes, care planning reviews, diagnostic forms, referrals, a ...
MDs To Be / BY: Azzra Mangalji, MD October 2019
In 2014 the BC Ministry of Health’s report, “Setting Priorities for the BC Health System,” outlined information management and ... medical records (EMRs) to enter or retrieve patient notes, an increase from 26% in 2007.[ 4 ] More recently, the ...
MDs To Be / BY: Justin Burton, MSc, UBC Medicine, Class of 2018 January/February 2018
... boat from Iquitos in northeastern Peru. The CSSC provides health care and support services to approximately 15 000 ... the Angels from Quebec took on the tasks of education and health care in the region between 1951 and 1991 as ... fecal smear), nor did I understand the various shorthand notes and synonyms for Spanish descriptions. These would soon ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP October 2018
... and banks are rarely used for banking. And yet, there’s health care. While we celebrate innovative successes such as ... if they use the same platform. Handwritten emergency room notes arrive by mail. Requests for health care services must be faxed on specified forms. When ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP June 2018
... I’m at work so late. If I leave before dictating all my notes and returning all my calls, then I feel guilty about ... right. That practising medicine should be good for our health too. That we need to channel our frustrations. That ... and advanced access and 24-7 imaging and digital health, all begging to be scaled. We have a new governance ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Andrew Hurlburt, MD April 2016
... become pregnant should discuss all travel plans with their health care provider to assess their risk for Zika exposure ... and unclear duration of persistence in tissues, the Public Health Agency of Canada recommends that women returning from ... that her pregnancy might be affected. The patient notes that she and her husband did get a few mosquito bites ...
MDs To Be / BY: Greg Costello, June 2015
... hopefully have better answers for him then. I make some notes as I walk to the intensive care unit to see a patient I ... Many thanks to all the physicians, nurses, and allied health care and medical program support staff involved in the ...