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Clinical Articles / BY: Jon Slater, MD, FRCPC, MBA, January/February 2014
... their activities appropriately, and some physicians may be pressured by colleagues to practise outside their area ... for diagnostic imaging that would be in place by April 2013. (required) •    The medical community would ... the profession, many of which we have discussed here. The issue of currency has been an especially hot topic for ...
News&Notes / BY: Lila Yewchuk, MD, FRCPC, March 2014
... with Type 1 Diabetes” was published in the June 2012 issue of the  BC Medical Journal  ( BCMJ  2012;54:232-237 ... an advocacy movement has been afoot in BC. On 22 October 2013, in response to increasing pressure from families and ... examples of independent plans and other documents that may be of assistance to parents. Further details regarding ...
Letters / BY: William Gardner, MBChB, April 2014
... I was heartened to see that the January/February 2014 issue of the  BC Medical Journal  had four items on the ... issues. The core problem is a moral one. Though we may disagree with our patients’ moral values, in most cases ... of the one versus the group. Dr Allan Donkin ( BCMJ  2013;56:6 ) identified the inherent difficulties in resolving ...
News&Notes / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2014
Annual Business Meeting and General Assembly  Saturday, 31 May 2014 • Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver This year’s ... report Following approval of the agenda and the 2013 AGM minutes, outgoing president Dr William Cunningham ... clarified that the increase came largely from a severance issue that occurred, not primarily from hiring new staff. Dr ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kasandra Harriman, MD, CCFP, November 2014
... by e-mail with C. Voggenreiter, Ministry of Health, March 2013). Several explanations for this high number have been ... damaging relationships with specialists, this reluctance may be due to lack of confidence in their own deprescribing ... or the challenge of family unavailability. Thus the issue goes far deeper than this financial aspect. A ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS November 2014
... bulge comes face to face with advancing age. In this issue of the  BCMJ , Dr Bob Vroom also addresses the topic ... College registrants who subscribe to library services may receive an unlimited number of expert literature ... “We need to get another life after retirement” ( BMJ  2013;347:f7173), and “Prolonging a sustainable working life ...