Quick Link for your 2020 Dues – now online! https://www.victoriamedicalsociety.org/product/msa-member-dues/ Full letter from Dr. Don Milliken, President, South Island MSA: Dear Colleague, During the first half of 2020, all of the MSA’s focus was on what we could do to keep physicians and patients safe. To this end, we pivoted […]
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The final few weeks of the first trimester of pregnancy can be a time filled with worry. Women can have symptoms such a bleeding or cramping that may suggest an early pregnancy loss, but cannot know for sure without an ultrasound. In the final few weeks of a pregnancy, questions […]
Read moreWhen Royal Jubilee Hospital (RJH) was designated the site for suspected and confirmed COVID patients in southern Vancouver Island in early March, teams of physicians and allied health personnel scrambled to decant the hospital, going from a census of 115% to 70% within weeks. The effort involved in this process […]
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Each member of our medical community has pulled together at this challenging time. This is the final story in our series of leadership, professionalism, and collegiality. Thank you for joining us in this celebration of excellence. Our compilation of All-Star stories is available here. It seems fitting that our final […]
Read morePlease find below key supports for re-opening your community-based practice: Island Health has announced their process for supporting specialist physicians with community-based practices with PPE access, available here: https://medicalstaff.islandhealth.ca/news-events/ppe-physicians-community-practices-vancouver-island. Doctors of BC has put together important guides for re-opening community practices, available here: https://www.doctorsofbc.ca/working-change/advocating-physicians/coronavirus-covid-19-updates
Read moreEach member of our medical community has pulled together at this challenging time. We’re delighted to share some inspiring stories of leadership, professionalism, and collegiality, as we introduce you to our peer-nominated COVID All-Stars. Dr. Eddie Moss has recognized Dr. Rusty Ritenour as a COVID-All Star. As he writes: “As […]
Read moreEach member of our medical community has pulled together at this challenging time. We’re delighted to share some inspiring stories of leadership, professionalism, and collegiality, as we introduce you to our peer-nominated COVID All-Stars. It can be easy to focus on our immediate, close-to-home needs during a stressful time. But […]
Read moreApproximately 800 cardiac surgery cases are done each year at Royal Jubilee Hospital and it is standard for the anesthesiologist to perform an intraoperative transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE). However, when the TEE shows an interesting finding which poses significant diagnostic challenges, there has been no formal mechanism to communicate this more […]
Read moreThank you, everyone, for everything you have done over the past two months to ready our facilities and teams for COVID. The collaboration and engagement has been inspiring. Now that we are out of COVID Crisis Mode, all requests for funding will happily be considered through the normal application and […]
Read moreEach member of our medical community has pulled together at this challenging time. We’re delighted to share some inspiring stories of leadership, professionalism, and collegiality, as we introduce you to our peer-nominated COVID All-Stars. Dr. Vanessa Young provided a warm nomination for Dr. Alicia Power, former Division Head for Family […]
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