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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 ...
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 ...
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: 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: 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 ...
Letters / BY: J.L. Cochlin, MD June 2001
... in the BCMA Journal [ Please fix walk-in problem.  BCMJ 2001;43(2): 71], I had a discussion with a patient during the ... also written the head of the section regarding this same issue. Regular readers may also recall a letter written by Dr Ian Cappon outlining a ...
Letters / BY: C.J. Sedergreen, MBBS September 2001
... member of the Board of Directors of the Laurel Foundation, may I express my appreciation of the June 2001 issue of the BCMA  Journal  dedicated to autism ...