surgical patient optimization

Doctors of Innovation

Doctors of Innovation: “Preparing for surgery is like preparing for a race”

May 16, 2019

Over 100 participants from multidisciplinary teams were welcomed by Doctors of BC’s president-elect Dr Kathleen Ross at the launch of the new Surgical Patient Optimization Collaborative (SPOC) on May 6, 2019.

SPOC aims to optimize 13 clinical components (shown below) of a patient’...
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Dr Kelly Mayson

Dr Kelly Mayson: helping make patients stronger for surgery

May 2, 2019

On a rural placement between her second and third year as a medical student in the 1980s, Dr Kelly Mayson got paired with a rural GP who had just completed training in anesthesiology. “It opened my eyes to what it was all about,” she said, and soon after decided to make it her career.  

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