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President's Comment / BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD December 2022
... does now. It is in times of uncertainty and scarcity that people look to us for guidance and reassurance, and I do ...
President's Comment / BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD March 2022
... We spend our working lives taking care of other people’s health and well-being. But have we ever really ...
President's Comment / BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD July/August 2022
... a harmonious way. While there will always be conflict and people who disagree, imagine a world with more awareness, ...
President's Comment / BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD September 2022
... sacred assets we have—our health—yet most Indigenous people and those from many other cultures likely find the ... in an environment free of racism and discrimination, where people feel safe when receiving services. Cultural humility ...
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, 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 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 ...
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, ...