PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS (PAs)
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Privatization in Health Care
Private for Profit Surgeries In September 2020, BC Supreme Court Justice John Steeves ruled against Dr. Brian Day and the Cambie Surgery Centre, culminating a nearly ten year challenge to Canada’s Public Health Care system. Day argued patients have a constitutional right to pay for private care when wait times in the public system are too long. […]
BCRHN Position Papers
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Dying for love: Disconnection in the time of COVID-19
https://bcmj.org/cohp-covid-19/dying-love-disconnection-time-covid-19 Issue: BCMJ, vol. 63 , No. 1 , January February 2021 , By: Johanna Trimble [Excerpt] On 11 July 2020, Andre Picard, Globe and Mail health journalist, tweeted: Jérôme (Jerry) Lalonde: Dec 25, 1931–July 10, 2020. My father-in-law. Another victim of #COVID19. . . But isolation and loneliness were a large contributing factor. Before the pandemic, my 89-year-old father-in-law […]
Fernie – Elk Valley Hospice Society
Welcome to Elk Valley Hospice Posted on February 1, 2017 by admin Hospice care encourages living fully to the end of life, with dignity and comfort, surrounded by a caring circle of support. We believe that death is a natural part of the cycle of life, and that everyone has the right to die with dignity, in as pain-free […]
The Social Bubble Blog
The Social Bubble Blog Why did I start the Social Bubble Project? Years ago, I sat as a hospice volunteer with my partner, a rabbi, and an elderly Romanian man. The man didn’t speak English and no one there at the facility spoke Romanian.Yet, when we sat down with him he did not hold back […]
Kaslo – Hospice Society of North Kootenay Lake
What We Do The Hospice Society of North Kootenay Lake is a community based, independent non-profit group whose mission is to offer compassionate care to the terminally ill, the dying, and the bereaved. Hospice provides free of charge support to those in the last phase of life, helping them live as comfortably as possible. Care […]
March 2021
A sample of what is in this issue: Community Health Centres needed to improve primary care in B.C. Report: Indigenous people lack access to health care because of systemic racism. The Second COVID-19 Shot Is a Rude Reawakening for Immune Cells. Our new category: ‘Life after COVID-19’. To access, click on the download button or […]
People More Likely to Keep Their Distance If You’re Wearing a Mask
[Excerpt] – Wearing a mask can help prevent the spread of COVID-19 by catching the tiny droplets that are released when we speak, cough, or sneeze. Wearing a mask can help prevent the spread of COVID-19 by catching the tiny droplets that are released when we speak, cough, or sneeze. New research indicates that wearing a mask […]
ICU deaths fall at St. Paul’s
Bold text are ‘hot links’. Double click to access. ICU DEATHS FALL AT ST. PAUL’S AS KNOWLEDGE ABOUT CORONAVIRUS LEADS TO NEW TREATMENTS October 30, 2020 [Excerpts] While the number of patients in St. Paul’s Hospital’s intensive care unit has roughly doubled since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring, the death rate […]