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Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2014
... you--a career highlight? Being co-chair of the GPSC from 2005 until last year. It was a lot of work, but it was the ... entire system is never going to be fixed--as soon as one issue is addressed, major or minor, something else crops up. ... find that if you hear people out and you work together, it may take more time, but when you achieve a consensus decision ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD October 2010
... small. Without effective intervention, though, they may well become staggering in the future. Preventing ... in dietary and lifestyle habits. This is a very complex issue and intervention must take place at a number of ... obesity and promoting health. It was es­ta­blished in 2005 as a cross-government health promotion initiative and ...
MDs To Be / BY: Christian Wiens, BSc(Pharm), May 2009
... in its approach to lecturer conflicts of interest. In 2005, U of T instituted a policy stating “…before ... residency training.”[ 3 ] The CMA does not opine on the issue of lecturer conflicts of interest in medical school ... their relationship with the pharmaceutical industry may affect their judgment. Regrettably, the British Columbia ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Faulkner, MBChB July/August 2007
... and integrative medicine beliefs (see  Globe and Mail , May 1999). His involvement in the very unscientific “harm ... in reading some of the skeptical accounts of this issue ( e.g.,  http://dreamhealer.blogspot.com/ ). Dr ... interesting is that credits for this were given both in 2005 and then again this year. As much as I admire Dr ...
MDs To Be / BY: Lee MacKay, BSc, April 2007
... to the woes of the public health care system in BC, the issue of how best to fix the problems being faced by BC’s ... director, Saskatoon Community Clinic, 24 November 2005). Share prices are determined by the members of the ... British Columbia’s health cooperative movement may be able to transform our national health care system and ...
Letters / BY: Leon Bard, MD, June 2006
The winter 2005 issue of the College  Quarterly  (51), a publication ... College  Quarterly  article highlighted a syndrome that may complicate cataract surgery in patients who take ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP January/February 2006
... from WorkSafeBC When a worker develops a disease that may be work related, it is the role of Occupational Disease ... and risk infecting your staff and patients. In early 2005, when the Norwalk virus infected large numbers of health ... workplace. —Don Graham, MD Chief Medical Officer   Next issue: West Nile virus Next month, Dr Sami Youakim, one of ...
Letters / BY: Lloyd Westby, MD September 2005
... response to Dr Jack Burak’s excellent article from April 2005 entitled, “BC’s technologically challenged health ... 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 ...
Interviews / BY: Michael Golbey, MD September 2005
... of the public system by doing some of it privately. That may simply mean publicly funded procedures being done in ... Committee on revitalizing family practice will be a big issue. Increased funding going to general practice is a good ... with the president: Dr Michael Golbey, BCMA president 2005-2006 ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD April 2005
... of some DSM-IV diagnosis. The findings of the Ipsos-ASI 2005  BCMJ  Readership Survey were released at the end of ... myself. A detailed report on the survey will appear in the May issue, but if you want to see the full results now you can ...