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News June 2005
... on your nursing staff were equally well trained? This may seem like an impossible notion, but not when you hardwire ... as decisions about electroconvulsive therapy. In November 2003, the BCMA’s Council on Health Promotion issued a press ... Psoriasis Education Program (PEP) has released the first issue of PEP Talk, a publication for people affected by ...
Letters / BY: H. Martin Gough, MD March 2004
Dr A. Krisman’s letter in the November issue of the  BCMJ [2003;45(9):431]  criticizing the cesarean section rate of ... interference were indolence, ignorance, and avarice. This may still be part of the problem, but I suspect that today ...
Letters / BY: Eric Smith, MD January/February 2004
... by Dr McGowan and Ms Nightingale on hospitalists ( BCMJ 2003;45[8]:391-394 ), which examined differences in patient ... dated July 2003. That the conclusions in this study may influence health care planning is worrisome and we feel ... Dr McGowan and Ms Nightingale for raising this important issue that needs to be debated fully within the medical ...
Editorials / BY: Howard Feldman, MD, FRCPC September 2004
... very apprehensive about the costs of treatment. This theme issue provides an up-to-date clinical perspective on AD care ... (TREAD) consensus conference, which was held in January 2003 to address state-of-the-art symptomatic treatment for ... the use of ChEIs in BC is equal to other provinces. This may be the most telling cost-effectiveness study of all. ...
Letters / BY: Erik T. Paterson, MD December 2003
... interview with you, published in the  BCMJ  of October 2003, (45[8]:376-381), you make some mention of rural and ... 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 ...
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