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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 ...
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: 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 ...
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 ...
President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD July/August 2005
... recruit the doctors we so desperately need. The result of May’s election will ensure that the next 4 years will be ... this third year are set to begin no later than 1 October 2005 and will be subject to arbitration as early as 1 ... We hope that government will want to work with us on this issue. The BCMA and the CMA are looking very closely at this ...
Editorials / BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD May 2005
In his editorial, “Forced retirement”  (BCMJ 2005;47[4]:165),  Dr Anthony Salvian decries the fact that ... under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The case may be found on the Internet under Stoffmann v. VGH, 1990 ... for such decisions; the word is “curious.” The second issue was that as a university-affiliated teaching hospital ...
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 ...