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Letters / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP November 2023
... the Longitudinal Family Physician Payment Model improve health care, including sustainability?” [ BCMJ ... physician payment levels. As the author correctly notes, “[t]he new model has no incentives to build primary ... the Longitudinal Family Physician Payment Model improve health care, including sustainability?”   Letters Re: Does ...
Letters / BY: Shelley Ross, MD January/February 2020
... the foundation for efficient, effective, and sustainable health care is well supported by evidence and is now being acknowledged broadly by government policymakers, health care administrators, and our medical associations as ... for change, however, goes beyond compensation. As Dr Brown notes, physicians need to be supported by a network that ...
News&Notes December 2017
... Bri­tish Columbia is on the cusp of great change. Rural health care has met the information technology age and things ... between the au­thor and a strongly supportive Northern Health Authority. It was a proposal that articulated the need ... this program.  This article has been peer reviewed. News&Notes Special report: Rural echocardiography in northern BC: ...
Letters / BY: Laurence W. Lee, MD, FRCPC October 2017
... the appropriate preformatted documents, be they admission notes, progress notes, consultations, or discharge summaries, ... without the need to repeat data entry. The history of past health would be repeated automatically on the admitting ... data would be added the next time in the history of past health section. A discharge summary could be primarily ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper December 2016
... that has conducted member and employee research in the health care sector for 20 years. We received hundreds of ... report: BCMJ 2016 Member/Reader Research report (PDF) News&Notes BCMJ member research results ...
News&Notes April 2015
... epigenome. The project, called the National Institutes of Health Roadmap Epigenomics Program, provides a core set of ... for studying the role of the epigenome in human health and disease. In particular, the paper “Integrative ... the program, visit  www.roadmapepigenomics.org . News&Notes BC researchers unravel health/disease map ...
News&Notes / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2014
... to strengthen the bursary program as well as the physician health program. Dr Corbett thanked the members and indicated ... and act locally.’ “We need to engage with government, health authorities, and our allied health providers in ... Thorn Photography and Karen Tregillas Photography.   News&Notes Special feature: Doctors of BC Annual Meeting 2014 ...
News&Notes / BY: Lila Yewchuk, MD, FRCPC, March 2014
... and following the recommendations of an independent Child Health BC report, the BC government announced a new, ... parents no longer have to choose between their child’s health and their family’s financial security. One father ... the Unsafe at School website as they are available. News&Notes Special feature: Safe at school at last ...
News&Notes / BY: Michal Smialowski, MD, January/February 2014
... the community had not had a physician since the Interior Health Authority took over jurisdiction of the area from the ... from the challenges and rewards that I have.  News&Notes Special feature: A remote opportunity: The joys and ...
News&Notes / BY: Chris Fraser, MD, January/February 2014
... illnesses. Surrounded daily by the overwhelming, horrific health consequences and human suffering imposed by the ... finds hope and inspiration in his accomplishments. News&Notes Special feature: My improbable encounter with Nelson ...