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Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD June 2017
... drips on a tin roof at night, interrupting sleep. The 30-page provincial application for persons with disabilities is ... are pursuing the adoption of the Patient Medical Home. Ambitious doctors or civil servants will not advance ...
Premise / BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP May 2017
... senior who was still living independently in her own home. She met death in the way that most of us would choose ... to introduce themselves to colleagues in the  BCMJ  Back Page feature. Even if we are not familiar with the Proust ... before, and until his own death to prostate cancer at home in 2014 he continued to advocate for a more ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2016
... of my colleagues who had the weekend off. There was a page over the hospital intercom—“Dr Ruddiman to the ... considering the empathy that was generated in our home I’m disappointed in myself when I think back. Having ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS December 2016
... an estimated 70% to 75% of care to people receiving home care. That translates to roughly 8 million Canadians ... friends, or neighbors. You are well positioned to share a page from the resource pad included with this issue of the BC ...
Back Page / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC November 2015
... with his comrades in the Fox and Hounds, he brought them home to supper, beer bubbles clinging to his magnificent ... the froth that once adorned it at the Fox and Hounds. Back Page The magnificent moustache ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd January/February 2015
... emerged and medical practice began to shift from home to office and hospital. Internal medicine and general ... of BC Guide to Fees  to a 1950s version with a one-page wee index,[ 2 ] the differences are glaring. It’s like ...
Back Page / BY: J.C.A. Morrant, MBBS, DObst, RCOG, DPM, FRCPC, October 2014
... a minor procedure like pushing a trochar trembling home or wrestling with a drip. I asked him how he maintained ... tolerate themselves enough to want to live and give. Back Page The enemy within ...
Letters / BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC January/February 2014
... [Dr Terwiel died 4 January 2014; see the article on  page 36 . —ED] It is in this context that I reviewed the ... Shot by a jealous husband. •    In my bed at home. •    Quickly. •    Instantly, no pain or ...
Back Page / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC November 2014
... avoid the London Blitz, which had already shattered their home, fortunately without casualties. They knew this was the ... boy was affected. Those affected were forbidden to travel home by train when the term ended, lest they infect the ... minor, would have affected his life and career. Back Page Lest we forget ...
Back Page / BY: Ralph Jones, MD December 2013
... me. We didn’t let her down; she died as she wished, at home. I lightened my load by finding one “not dead yet ... and chatting to aerial spirits in a comfortable nursing home.  Then back to melancholy. Removing their names and ... are extinguished in microseconds?  Will we?  Back Page Bring out your dead ...