Staff blog: Medicine Matters
Sinus surgery wait times: A tale of two patients
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B.C.'s three main parties agree more needs to be spent on home care
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MEDICINE MATTERS: The cosmetic roots of private surgery clinics in BC
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MEDICINE MATTERS: The 25 doctors owed money in the Delbrook Surgical Centre bankruptcy
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MEDICINE MATTERS: Vancouver radiologists complete re-read of Terrace images; 10% discrepancy
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MEDICINE MATTERS: Convicted surgeon reprimanded by College of Physicians and Surgeons
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MEDICINE MATTERS: Long-awaited study debunks vein dilation procedure for multiple sclerosis
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MEDICINE MATTERS: 30 million health services provided per year; 9,000 formal complaints
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MEDICINE MATTERS: Eyeball turf wars between surgeons and optometrists
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MEDICINE MATTERS: Shocking, disturbing new book by a former St. Paul's Hospital surgeon
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MEDICINE MATTERS: 1st court appearance by physician charged with fraud
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MEDICINE MATTERS: Top 25 read posts of 2016
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MEDICINE MATTERS: What your doctor earns - the latest Blue Book on fees
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MEDICINE MATTERS: Patients and doctors describe interminably long waits for MRIs in BC
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MEDICINE MATTERS: Crown prosecutors now reviewing potential cases of fraud by overbilling doctors in BC
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Drug dealers killing buyers aren't sophisticated chemists like Breaking Bad's Walter White
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MEDICINE MATTERS: CEO apologizes to family for breach of privacy by care aide in Margot ...
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MEDICINE MATTERS: A family's anguish as nursing home continues feeding vegetative patient
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MEDICINE MATTERS: Government's opening statements in the Brian Day case, in their entirety
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MEDICINE MATTERS: Brian Day's challenge to Canada's medicare: the trial's opening statements are here, in ...
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MEDICINE MATTERS: 17-year old Ben Obadia beat leukemia. But then brain cancer struck.
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Staff Blogs TRAGICALLY WORSE: Does Ontario offer better survival odds than BC for brain cancer patients like ...
Note to readers: This post has been updated to include the comments of Dr. Brian Thiessen, a BC Cancer Agency oncologist who chairs the brain tumour group. -
Staff Blogs Patients and doctors claim bias and discrimination by surgeons against obese patients
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN My story about a new survey of BC surgeons showing that the vast majority have postponed, cancelled or even refused to do operations on obese patients drew ... -
Staff Blogs MEDICINE MATTERS: B.C. Women's Hospital earns revenue on private pay births but limits foreigner births, ...
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN I had some input in this story about birth tourism in Richmond. As you'll read, there's at least one home in Richmond which seems to be operating akin ... -
Staff Blogs MEDICINE MATTERS: Angus, Canada's first superbug-sniffing canine goes to work at Vancouver hospital
July 6/16 update: After my story was published yesterday, some health professionals at Toronto East Hospital took to Twitter to dispute whether Angus is the first C-diff canine detective in ... -
Local Health MEDICINE MATTERS: hospital chiefs acting on health minister's orders to lock down narcotics
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN After my series about a care aide at Vancouver General Hospital who overdosed on drugs she stole from the emergency department, health minister Terry Lake sent a ... -
Staff Blogs MEDICINE MATTERS: The top 20 medicines to avoid after age 65
Doctors across Canada are prescribing over $400 million a year in potentially risky medicines, whose harms, including death, often outweigh benefits in patients over the age of 65, a B. -
Staff Blogs MEDICINE MATTERS: Doctor shortages - things that don't seem to change
June 28 story update: The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC says in its new annual report that there are 11,841 professionally active doctors in 2015/16, up from 11,574 ... -
Staff Blogs MEDICINE MATTERS: Skills surgeons need include athletic ability, hand-eye coordination, compassion and .... origami?
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN Spots in medical school or post-graduate specialty training programs are really hard to get. -
Staff Blogs MEDICINE MATTERS: BC study shows child booster seats prevent injuries, just as legislation intended
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN A 2008 BC law that made booster seats mandatory helped reduce injuries in child car passengers by about 12 per cent per month, according to a first-of-its-kind study ... -
Staff Blogs MEDICINE MATTERS: Musings on winners, losers and suspects among BC physicians
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN The month-long online balloting for a new president-elect of Doctors of BC was a ho-hum affair, in terms of voter turnout, as only 3,570 doctors (or about a third of ...
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