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Premise / BY: Martin C. Wale, BM BS, FRCPath, MBA March 2017
... by the Physician Specialist Services Advisory Committee in 2014. Following this, further work on the Cochrane ... supports (training, simulation experience, etc.) may be required to maintain currency in the context of service requirements. Where collection of data is an issue, this should be raised in that conversation.  ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2016
... all the generalist pieces of being a family doctor my dad may not have had an opportunity that day to receive the best ... the health care needs of our populations. What health care issue do you think is not getting enough attention right now? ... First, the Commonwealth Fund released a report in late 2014 showing that Canada scores 10th out of 11 in First World ...
Editorials / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC September 2015
Dr Margaret Colbourne Following the 2014 release of “Lost in the Shadows” from the ... physicians of their legal obligation to report a child who may be in need of protection, as well as guiding them through ... of these children. This is the first of a two-part theme issue on child maltreatment. The first article is a brief ...
Letters / BY: C. Eve Rotem, MD, July/August 2014
... all too often. I am glad to see discussions on this thorny issue are finally beginning. Without an accepted policy being ... this difficult problem (to the best of our abilities in 2014). And I believe the problem should be discussed with a ... years. This discussion has been started in the April and May issues of the  BC Medical Journal  and that is an ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2014
... 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 ... Q&A with Dr Bill Cavers: Doctors of BC President 2014-15 ...
Premise / BY: Jon Slater, MD, FRCPC, MBA, September 2014
... Iglesias, Johnston, Klein, Ruddiman, and Woollard [ BCMJ  2014;56:326-327 ] with some concern. We accept that change ... for this to occur and for discussions on how comfort may be maintained or restored. Second, we must not confuse ... for the practising physician. We are interested in this issue, but it is beyond the scope of our project. Other ...
Letters / BY: William Gardner, MBChB, April 2014
On 10 February 2014, André Picard’s column in the  Globe and Mail ... 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 ...
Letters / BY: Kobus de Jager, MBBS September 2014
... average citizen, and perhaps even the average physician, may view death with dignity, a good death, aid in dying, ... physician-assisted suicide as of the same species ( BCMJ  2014;56:6 ). But criminal law draws sharp distinctions ... terminate their life on request? Anyone debating this issue, be it for or against physician-assisted suicide, needs ...
Letters June 2014
... happy to read [Dr Richardson’s] March editorial ( BCMJ  2014;56:73 ) last week—I am seriously behind on my reading. ... Of interest to you might be an article published in the May 2009 issue of the  Journal of the American College of Surgeons .[ ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD June 2013
... this editorial is about you, the physician, who on 1 April 2014 will be handed the spoils of the failed Health Canada ... only for medical marijuana! Some physicians may see a Seagram-like business opportunity[ 5 ] in the ... authorization and dispensing of medical marijuana. The issue of how physicians will be audited for authorizing a ...