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Letters / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD October 2018
... on Astrocite III , faithfully recorded in the June 1968 issue. Or just let yourself go with “The man who stopped ... Moralis, MD (pseudonym of the retired psychiatrist) in the May 2008 issue. Then you might as well switch back to the January/February 2007 issue and read Dr Leslie Andrew’s humor: “When I ...
Obituaries / BY: Susan Bond January/February 2017
... the medical staff at Cranbrook and District Hospital. In 2007 the Endoscopy Suite at East Kootenay Regional Hospital ... with the College and was a real firebrand on the issue of medical ethics. The ideals of the Hippocratic oath ... 2017 at the Kimberley Elks Club. Donations in his memory may be made to the Kootenay Wildlife Heritage Fund, PO Box ...
Letters / BY: H. Davis, MD, June 2008
... Anderson and Shao Hua Lu [ BCMJ 2008;50(1):11 ] have taken issue with some of the comments made in my article published in your journal in November 2007 [ BCMJ 2007;49(9):495 ], where I did express concern ... or confused. • Focal neurological deficits that may or may not be transient. As can be seen, and I emphasized ...
Letters / BY: Michael Dettman, MD, March 2008
... to do a history and physical [“ Back to basics ,” BCMJ 2007;49:530]. Her des­cription of a “young emergency ... such jobs on the ground floor of hospitals. This editorial may change the face of emergency medicine and the ... course, the requisite extensive and lengthy study of the issue. —Michael Dettman, MD Emergency physician, VGH ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2007
The article in the March issue of  BCMJ  ( “Self-report of use of traditional ... a cross-cultural psychiatry outpatient clinic,” 2007;49[2]:68-71 ) reported 20% of Chinese patients attending ... and not specifically for emotional symptoms. Panax ginseng may cause manic-like symptoms when combined with monoamine ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Faulkner, MBChB July/August 2007
... “Reality check needed for CME credits” ( BCMJ  2007;49[3]:109) , which included a partial, out-of-context ... 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 ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD March 2007
I read with concern the Vancouver Sun article of 4 January 2007, in which Dr Penny Ballem states that she has good data ... to aggressively “treat to target,” so a patient may not be started on oral agents early enough or, if a ... for glycemic control, but diabetes management is a complex issue and isn’t just a question of blood glucose levels. ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2007
... became involved with the BCMA, were you motivated by some issue or problem that you wanted to solve? I was probably ... with the job the BCMA is doing. In a poll on governance in 2007, 74% of members said the Board was doing a good job ... the BCMA. The societies are doing a good job, and in fact, may need more help to do things. They’re doing a huge ...
Letters / BY: Zafar Essak, MD November 2007
At the 2007 AGM I was impressed when Dr Robin Saunders concluded his ... 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 ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... explicit shaming of physicians. The so-called evaluations may be based on time spent in the doctor’s waiting room, ... appear to be particularly well attended. The bothersome issue is that neither the good nor the shaming comments are ... a recommended treatment regimen.  In a CMAJ article from 2007, “RateMD.com nets ire of Canadian physicians,”[ 2 ] ...