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News June 2022
... medical system here in British Columbia. Apps and social media The survey revealed that BC physicians are increasingly ... who responded to the survey have little use for social media for professional reasons (12%), though personal use is ... using social media at all (29%) than using Twitter (21%). Room for improvement Overall we found that survey respondents ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP October 2018
... if they use the same platform. Handwritten emergency room notes arrive by mail. Requests for health care services ... give up some of this right daily to interact on social media. I take a chance that my banking or personal data will ...
News / BY: Sam Bugis, MD July/August 2011
... around BC. Despite the complexity of running an operating room (OR), most patients are provided with the highest ... on the BCMA’s website:  www.bcma.org/publications-media/policy-statements-papers .  —S. Bugis, MD Chair, ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD October 2009
... the severity of this year’s flu season might be, the media has perpetuated the H1N1 hype to such a degree that we ... should be made available at the entrance to the waiting room with a sign explaining that patients who arrive with ... patients with flu symptoms. Perhaps segregate your waiting room, if possible, or have patients with flu symptoms ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, October 2007
... paper A Prescription for Quality. Each garnered a lot of media and member response. Following this was the CMA’s ... maneuver between the chickens in the open-walled emergency room. The suture used looked like 00 green nylon in large ...
News / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2006
... with traditional dialysis, as well as fewer emergency room visits and less frequent need for hospitalization. For ... it quite clear that the darling of the North American media in the early years of this decade was a long way from ... drug company, the university, the hospital hierarchy, the media, some of her colleagues, and Dr Olivieri herself should ...
President's Comment / BY: Jack Burak, MD March 2005
... by politicians and health care providers on the news media. I’ve talked publicly about the need to ensure the ... up more operating rooms and give surgeons more operating room time. There are many other constant and perennial health ...
President's Comment / BY: Jack Burak, MD June 2005
... profession. I have had many interesting and stimulating media interviews concerning the sustainability of our ... experienced by our patients. Waiting times, emergency room chaos, lack of sufficient acute care hospital beds, ... I attempted to improve our image with the public and the media as well as converse with government in an attempt to ...