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President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) November 2013
... Canadian EMR adoption rates have risen from 23% in 2006 to 56% in 2012, countries such as Australia, New ... physicians set to retire in the next couple of years, it may make sense to forgo the expense and time-consuming ... typed emergency record the very next morning? In this issue of the BCMJ you can read more about this topic and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Letters / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC May 2006
The  January/February 2006 issue of the BCMJ [48(1):14-15]  contains a report by ... expensive hospital dialysis units. This is good news, but may I re mind you that, as reported in the CMAJ, [1]  the ...
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 ... and will be subject to arbitration as early as 1 February 2006. We all remember what happened to our last “binding” ... We hope that government will want to work with us on this issue. The BCMA and the CMA are looking very closely at this ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... brought my attention to an article in the 2 December 2017 issue: “Gay twin may offer an answer to mystery of our sexuality.” The ... were referred to psychologist John Money, PhD, (1921–2006) at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Dr Money was a ...