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President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD March 2021
... there is another reason why listening is so important. People do not want to follow people who don’t listen. It’s a fundamental human need to ... minutes per day to scan through the viewpoints of credible people, then I could get on with my life. I did have a good ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD April 2021
... issues. So, what have I found? I am often one of the first people that an LGBTQ2S+ person comes out to. I am far too ... person who learns that a teenager has been date-raped. People break down and tell me about old traumas. People tell me their stories of the racism, sexism, ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD May 2021
... collective trauma (a traumatic event shared by a group of people) being used to describe the COVID-19 pandemic. I often ... But trauma carries different meanings for different people. For some, trauma means broken bones and ruptured ... necessarily true of the pandemic. That’s not to say people haven’t suffered; we have seen far too many deaths; ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD July/August 2021
... is learning that, in spite of these uncertain times, people want very similar things in life. It doesn’t matter ... in a similar way. I’ve come across a lot of different people in my life. Young people. Older people. Disadvantaged people. Privileged ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD September 2021
... What you want. We need to consider, ask, and learn how people want to be treated. In the same way that I cannot tell ... to describe as it can mean different things to different people, cultures, and generations. I describe it as a pattern of certain behaviors: honorable people keep their word, maintain confidences, tell the truth, ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD October 2021
... of BC doctors has actually grown during the pandemic. People have joined us from different provinces and different ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD November 2021
... It is an eclectic bunch: colleagues on the front lines, people working in public health, politicians, government ... But why am I doing this? The reasons are multiple. I see people doing good work and I want to encourage them to keep doing it. I see people making tough calls and I want to acknowledge their ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD December 2021
... of burnout in the medical community. It is hard to see the people I care about suffer and toil as you have. And yet, the ... putting others first: “Give our vaccine doses to people more vulnerable, we’ll wait our turn.” I remember ... leaders in our own right, and we are entrusted with people’s very lives. Take heart that even when we are ...