Emergency Medicine

An existing short-duration certificate—which is good for 30 days and requires supervision—will stay in place.

An ophthalmologist pulled out, layer by layer, a 'huge, dark-purple blob of contact lenses' stuck to the eye of a 70-year-old female patient. 'She said she felt much better already,' recalled the doctor.

The new-to-practice contract is an hours-based two-year contract.

So much of long COVID continues to confound clinicians.

Extra cash, more fun, something different—all reasons doctors do work outside of their provincial payer.

Dr. Mary Fernando says medicine and mystery novels have much in common and this pandemic has highlighted one commonality in a very tragic way.

Dr. Silvy Mathew knows our ERs are staffed by excellent people busting their butts but the system is shaky. She has a list of solutions.

Pharmacists in B.C. are now allowed to renew medications and administer more vaccines, and minor ailment prescribing is not far behind. "It's exciting," says Geraldine Vance, Chief Executive Officer of the BC Pharmacy Association.