July 25, 2018

Doctors of BC advocates for our members in a number of ways: by influencing health system policy, by navigating professional issues that impact their ability to provide a high standard of care, and through negotiations. To do our best advocacy, it is important that we understand their needs by...

Elders
July 17, 2018

Maintaining good health when taking multiple medications. This was the theme of an Indigenous storytelling project - ‘Coyote’s Food Medicines’ -  that launched July 11th in front of more than 3,000 First Nations Elders in Duncan, BC.  

In describing the challenges around medication use in...

July 10, 2018

When Maryam Garabedian found out she received a bursary from Doctors of BC, she was excited by the prospect of being able to pursue one of the projects on her wish list to benefit communities in need. 

“This support broadens the opportunities I get to engage in,” says Maryam, a third-year...

Residential Care
July 3, 2018

The Vancouver Sun recently published an opinion piece by Doctors of BC President, Dr Eric Cadesky, that shows how physicians in our province are improving the quality of care for seniors living in residential care.
 
The Residential Care Initiative, funded by Doctors of BC and the BC...

Dr Du Plesiss
June 29, 2018

A chance search through Google helped propel Dr Marili Du Plessis from her home in South Africa to Port Alberni, where she has set up a family practice. But it was a joint program of Doctors of BC and the BC government that made the move a reality.

Dr Du Plessis’s husband was doing some...