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Editorials / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) July/August 2023
... patients, RCMP, injured workers, and certain others. At a media scrum, BC’s health minister celebrated the ... pathway to specialist referral is through the emergency room. Specialists are stressed and demoralized by the need to ... with primary care issues but no FP flock to the emergency room, where long waits, unfamiliar faces, excessive labs, and ...
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 ...
Premise / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd November 2017
... Hindi. While Mr Kumar’s story had been covered by news media ( Newsweek ,  Time , and a documentary on Discovery ... financial burden, with six people living in a small two-room house all supported by the father’s income of 600 ... hyperconnected world. No smart phones, no TV, no social media. Dr Mathew was stunned there were no computers. One ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD October 2017
... decided it’s time we educate ourselves about social media. I think pretty much all of you are familiar with ... list is by no means exhaustive. There are many more social media platforms out there, and by the time this is published ... Imagine the look on their faces when you enter the room and state, “Oh snap, when you tumble those tweets, ...
Premise / BY: Paul Winston, MD, FRCPC September 2017
... concept of medical pain management. For many years, the media, pharmaceutical industry, special interest groups, ... for many of these patients with visits to the emergency room or walk-in clinics, and continues with endless ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD May 2012
... control measures. In early March this letter reached the media and it garnered significant interest.  In response the ... issues? Do they know that men and women sharing a room separated by a curtain is now the norm? Are they aware ... workload. But would you want to be a patient in a four-bed room on a general medical ward at your local hospital?  I ...
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, ...
Letters / BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC July/August 2009
... to Victoria! Since arriving here in “God’s waiting room” they have increased their demands by asking to be ... antifungal medications. It received much attention in the media and health magazines in the past. A position paper of ...
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 ...