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Clinical Articles / BY: Hiram Mok, MA, MB BCh, BAO, FRCPC March 2007
... through family supports and alternative modalities and may only seek help from a family physician once these efforts ... for patients with physical and psychiatric illnesses, the issue of safety has become especially important. Herbs can ... Data were collected between December 2005 and February 2006 using a standardized questionnaire ( Figure 1 ) to ...
Editorials April 2007
... have a much better system today. We have a current funding issue in BC that is just one symptom of a sickness that has ... the way we fund much of our health care. While this may involve increasing the role of the private sector in ... waiting over 6 months for hospital care in Britain. By 2006, there was none. In Britain, patients may choose from ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC June 2007
For this theme issue on pandemic influenza, we assembled a panel of experts ... random occurrences and no one knows when another pandemic may occur. Influenza viruses replicate at a rapid and ... of Canada ( www.influenza.gc.ca ), where the most recent 2006 version of the national plan can also be found ( ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mario McKenna, MSc, September 2007
... physicians make. Of particular importance is the growing issue of recruitment and retention of academic faculty in ... their degrees between 1976 and 1995 ( table 4 ). This may be one factor contributing to the number of senior ... psychiatrists, who were actively practising medicine in 2006.[ 7 ]  Even though the number of Canadian and IMG ...
Letters / BY: Zafar Essak, MD November 2007
... views such as this are at the crux of the Code of Conduct issue. The analogy of a government cabinet is probably not ... Board as a whole fails to do so, individual Board members may feel obliged to provide details to members. Policies ... effort to portray the view that motions presented at the 2006 and 2007 AGMs are just the concerns of a handful of ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, November 2007
... ratified by the membership a year and a half ago in spring 2006, laid out a new structure for the Physician Master ... membership voted on the new Physician Master Agreement in May of this year, with 95% of those who voted voting in favor ... of services. Included in the polybag with this month’s issue of the  BC Medical Journal  is a Membership Guide to ...