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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: 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...