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Letters / BY: Lloyd Westby, MD September 2005
... working in the far north of New Zealand in the winter of 2001. I rotated about small rural Maori communities doing ... be scanned into his permanent records. Members may be interested to know that duplicate prescriptions date ... attach these into an EMR system is a significant resource issue as it takes up both the time of the physician and staff ...
Editorials / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC April 2004
... type of emotional reaction. For physicians, the response may include feelings of confusion and trepidation; for ... past 10 to 15 years. From the 1983 Badgley Report to the 2001 Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and ... recent developments can be overwhelming. In this second issue dedicated to child maltreatment, we focus on a few of ...
Letters / BY: Erik T. Paterson, MD December 2003
... by far their most important concerns—and the issues that may ultimately drive physicians away. Financial incentives to ... physician input into system reform was the most important issue to rural physicians and indeed to all physicians. The ... negotiation of the Rural Subsidiary Agreement of 2001, and in conjunction with UBC, financial support has been ...
Editorials / BY: Perry Kendall, OBC, MBBS, MSc, FRCPC April 2003
... comprised 22% of newly reported cases between 1996 and 2001. Estimates vary, but as many as 13000 British Columbians ... to Health Canada, up to one-third of infected persons may be unaware of their status. An emerging priority in ... effectiveness of partner notification  is found in this issue of the  BCMJ . Active partner notification has been ...
Letters / BY: Philip M. Alderman, MD March 2002
... “Male contraception and no-scalpel vasectomy” ( BCMJ 2001;43(10):560 ). Dr Rich is concerned about truancy rates, ... who do not return for semen analysis, and whose failures may therefore remain unreported. He affirms that such rates ... and rates. [1]   But this is largely a non-issue as, in my experience, truants whose vasectomies fail ...
Letters / BY: Robert Grist, MD January/February 2002
... hormone support for women with symptoms of menopause [ 2001;43(8):446]. Prevention of heart attack is a serious ... HERS study, ably reviewed by Dr Hammell in your October issue [2001;43(8):447], led to questions about the earlier ... Women’s Health Initiative randomized prospective study may afford us even better data on this by 2005. For our ...
Letters / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) October 2002
... Dixon-Warren’s request, which appeared in the June 2002 issue [ BCMJ  2002;44(5):234], asking for feedback on the ... manner. Unfortunately I feel now, as I felt in October 2001 when it was published, that the brochure from Dr ... conventional practice. Phraseology in the brochure like “may not be effective or safe,” “have not been ...
Letters / BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD June 2001
... medical direction in the regional hospital boards ( BCMJ 2001;43(2):60  and 65). From a doctrinaire political ... fields closest to the farm receive the most manure.” May I be permitted to mention a personal experience whilst ... full hospital rate for use of the operating room. When the issue came before the board, the matter was resolved when I ...
Editorials / BY: Donald B. Calne, OC, DM May 2001
In the April 2001 issue of the BC Medical Journal, five papers were ... of management. Taken together, the two series of articles may be seen as a "state of the art" summary of where we stand ...
College Library / BY: Jim Henderson October 2001
... As time becomes more precious, reading and staying current may suffer. For GPs and family physicians reduced to reading ... research paper they review. Titles from the July/August 2001 issue include “Rate and rhythm control showed similar ...