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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD October 2018
... morbidity and mortality associated with activities that may cause harm. Harm reduction applied to substance use is a ... hepatitis C virus and HIV transmission.[ 5 ] Therefore, in 2003, consistent with best practice, needle distribution and ... harm-reduction services. Physicians can help address the issue of marginalization by examining their own assumptions ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, November 2007
... membership voted on the new Physician Master Agreement in May of this year, with 95% of those who voted voting in favor ... Working Agreement, the 2002 Memorandum of Agreement, the 2003 Memorandum of Understanding, the 2006 Letter of ... of services. Included in the polybag with this month’s issue of the  BC Medical Journal  is a Membership Guide to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bruce Gamage, RN, CIC May 2006
Recent outbreaks in Canada, including the 2003 SARS outbreak, and the emergence of a virulent strain ... health care-facility norovirus outbreaks have brought the issue closer to home. These events made it clear that ... horizontal, and non-hierarchical fashion. In May and December of 2005, PICNet held stakeholder summits, at ...
Letters / BY: Jack Burak, MD July/August 2005
... addressed was what I consider the single most important issue within our association: income disparity. I am informed ... seeing in the Okanagan and others be paid a pittance? One may respond that these groups are actually underpaid whilst ... was approved by a membership referendum in November 2003. —Jack Burak, MD BCMA President (Past) Letters Income ...
Letters / BY: Douglas C. Drummond, MD January/February 2005
In the September issue of this journal, several articles reviewed and endorsed ... have not proven their worth. To support their view, they may cite the AD2000 reported earlier this year. [2]  While ... this aggregate of all of published RCTs through January 2003. There was, however, no provision within TREAD for an ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: M. Fyfe, MD, MSc June 2004
... continued its westward spread across North America in 2003, but did not enter British Columbia. The risk that the ... illnesses were West Nile fever, a dengue-like illness that may present with fever, headache, fatigue, myalgia, ... to the related paper by Dr Bigham on page 220 of this issue of the BCMJ. Reportability in BC Physicians must report ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...