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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM December 2021
... in the BC childhood immunization programs during the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic. In March and April 2020, BC ... 6 girls and boys completing the HPV two-dose series by 30 June 2020, a decline from 67% in recent prior years. Why is ... infants and young children for your patient population, issue reminders to those who are delayed to get them caught ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-kwe), JD, LLM, SJD March 2021
In June 2020, the BC Minister of Health commissioned an ... routine measurement of health system performance on this issue, serving to mask a problem that this review has ... care practice. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, Inc.; 2009. Beyond Medicine In Plain Sight: Elaboration on the ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2017
3 June 2017, Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver, BC To kick off the ... Doctors of BC will ensure adequate communication on this issue. There being no further questions, the motion to accept ... community volunteer, and businessman until his death in 2009. The Dr Don Rix Award for Physician Leadership was ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2016
4 June 2016, Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver, BC   Doctors of BC ... is not a productive use of our time and energy. The issue is that our two work models simply clash. Doctors are ... community volunteer, and businessman until his death in 2009. The Dr Don Rix Award for Physician Leadership was ...
MDs To Be / BY: Ahmad Al-Sarraf, MD, FRCPC, September 2014
Maintaining healthy vision is an important health issue. For many, loss of vision is associated with loss of ... According to the National Coalition for Vision Health's 2009 report on the state of vision health in Canada, visual ... rigid variety of monofocal intraocular lenses (IOL) until June 2012.[ 8 ] The current standard of care for IOLs is ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2013
Annual Business Meeting and General Assembly Saturday, 1 June 2013 Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver Like last year, the ... noise   Dr John O’Brien-Bell requested an update on the issue of noise. He first raised the issue at last year’s ... for a division of family practice back in October of 2009, and was one of the proto­types. It is a prime example ...
News&Notes / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2011
... Annual Business Meeting and General Assembly Saturday, 11 June 2011 Vancouver Convention Centre 2011/2012 BCMA elected ... with the UBC Faculty of Medicine. He pointed out that the issue of “transparency” that had been mentioned on ... According to a study completed by Statistics Canada in 2009, Canadian children as a whole are ‘taller, heavier, ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Bill Mackie, MD November 2011
... in which prevalent antibiotic use is of concern. In the June 2011 issue of Microbe, the report “Restricting anti­microbial ... of antibiotics used in food animal production. By 2009, Swedish sales of antibiotics for use in agriculture ...
Letters / BY: Jeremy Smith, September 2009
I will respond to Dr Blair’s original letter from the June issue (“EMRs and specialists” BCMJ 2009;51[5]: 190) and Dr Hwang’s response concurrently. ...
News&Notes / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2009
13 May 2009 Wall Centre Hotel, Vancouver The 2009 BCMA Annual ... something in the Board report regarding the litigation issue involving former Board member Dr Caroline Wang. This ... BCMA support the  Medical Post’s  MD Pension Day of June 15 and re­quests that the Board consider endorsing the ...