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Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS March 2024
... 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 ... consultations for malignancy (a specific fee created in 2013), according to MSP billing data [ Figure 3 ]. There was ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Keith G. Dawson, MD, PhD, FRCPC November 2018
... less able to provide culturally appropriate assistance. In 2013 the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) assumed the ... of medications and services than non-Indigenous people. In October 2017 FNHA joined BC Pharmacare and the new plan Plan ... for their part in supporting the publication of this theme issue. Competing interests This and the other articles in the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Maureen Clement, MD, CCFP November 2018
... with predicted prevalence rates rising from 8.3% in 2013 to 10.3% in 2020.[ 1 ] The complications of diabetes ... these concerns, the Therapeutics Letter of September/October 2017 names canagliflozin and dapagliflozin as ... for their part in supporting the publication of this theme issue. Competing interests This and the other articles in the ...
Letters / BY: R.A. Rockerbie, PhD January/February 2017
... motor vehicle fatalities.[ 1,2 ] An increase from 8.3% in 2013 to 17.0% in 2014 occurred following marijuana ... cause for sobering thought, as termed in an article in the October 2016 issue of the  BCMJ .[ 3 ] A meta-analysis, however, based on ...
Letters / BY: Barry Munn, MD, December 2014
... An emerging medical and public health concern” in the October issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:386-390 ) raises many interesting ... on the road between the ages of 45 and 74 had doubled, the 2013 motorcycle-related injuries mentioned in the article ...
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 ... few years an advocacy movement has been afoot in BC. On 22 October 2013, in response to increasing pressure from families and ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD December 2013
... regard to the Council on Health Promotion article in the October issue of the  BCMJ  [The senior driver in BC: Reaching the 80-year milestone  BCMJ  2013;55:380 ]. A driver’s licence is issued by the Office ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2013
... Business Meeting and General Assembly Saturday, 1 June 2013 Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver Like last year, the Annual ... noise   Dr John O’Brien-Bell requested an update on the issue of noise. He first raised the issue at last year’s ... at the chance for a division of family practice back in October of 2009, and was one of the proto­types. It is a ...