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Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS March 2024
... Canadian average [ Figure 1 ].[ 1 ] A study conducted in 2012 showed that 158 general surgeons were in full-time ... survey to all 240 members of General Surgeons of BC in October 2022 and aimed for a 50% response rate. We asked ... brevity and clarity): “We don’t have too much of an issue with surgeons, but we do have trouble with shortages of ...
Obituaries / BY: Doug Blackman, MD, September 2015
... Dr Morris VanAndel was born in Arnhem, Netherlands, on 12 October 1943, the fifth of seven children. The family ... table, making the way clear to a fair resolution of the issue at hand. Dr VanAndel epitomized what one expected of a ... Morris was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma in February 2012. During the extensive surgery and multiple cycles of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Murray Trusler, MD, MBA, FCFP, FRRMS, October 2014
... communication by e-mail with T. Gomes, 17 December 2012). Similar discrepancies can be seen in  Table 2 , where ... stated clearly in a 2011  Therapeutics Letter , and the issue now needs to be addressed by Health Canada, the ... This is a revised version of the article published in the October 2014 issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:391-394). The author ...
News&Notes / BY: Lila Yewchuk, MD, FRCPC, March 2014
... Children with Type 1 Diabetes” was published in the June 2012 issue of the  BC Medical Journal  ( BCMJ  2012;54:232-237 ... few years an advocacy movement has been afoot in BC. On 22 October 2013, in response to increasing pressure from ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2013
... noise   Dr John O’Brien-Bell requested an update on the issue of noise. He first raised the issue at last year’s ... always plans for a balanced budget, at the end of 2012 the BCMA had a $2.9 million surplus. He explained that ... at the chance for a division of family practice back in October of 2009, and was one of the proto­types. It is a ...