Update: The Judgment was released on May 10, 2024 and is available on the BCSC website: Hoogerbrug v. British Columbia, 2024 BCSC 794 – 2024/05/10 Dr. Z. Essak, MD - Vancouver, BC - November 19, 2023. Finally, an opportunity for ev ...

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Don’t FIPPA your PIPA without knowing this when it comes to personal health information.

... Databases http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/redeye/2009/04/healthcare-databases-and-... Or read “Database Nation and Health ...

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Dr Eric Cadesky becomes new President-Elect Doctors Of BC

Dr Z. Essak, MD - Vancouver BC - July 26, 2017. Congratulations to Dr Eric Cadesky on winning the election for President-Elect of the Doctors Of BC, the BC Medical Association. It has been an interesting campaign with opportunities to get to k ...

Forum topic - zessak - 2018-02-25 18:26 - 8 comments - 0 attachments - 1 group

More than 400 doctors attend Bill 36 HPOA Webinar by Doctors of BC

... twice a year, a timeline they focus on. After the 2018 inquiry into the College of Dental Surgery, the deficiencies found were ... Act is not simply addressing the concerns arising from the 2018 inquiry of the College of Dental Surgery. It is a total upheaval. Even as ...

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Last chance to save BC's crumbling health care system may rest with the silent majority of physicians defeating the PMA

Opinion Dr Z. Essak, MD - Vancouver, BC - November 27, 2022. The BC health care system continues to show larger cracks as it crumbles. Are patients and doctors to believe that the BC NDP Government and the Association of the Doctors of BC ...

Forum topic - zessak - 2022-12-26 15:03 - 3 comments - 1 attachment - 1 group

Is BC NDP new legislation poised to politically interfere with licensing of doctors and health professionals?

Vancouver, BC - November 24, 2022. Does the BC NDP's new legislation: Bill 36 - Health Professions and Occupations Act , introduced on October 19, 2022, set the stage for political interference in the licensing of physicians and other heal ...

Forum topic - Admin - 2022-11-25 11:22 - 8 comments - 0 attachments - 1 group

Has the BC Medical Association been stolen from the members?

Doctors and members of the BC Medical Association (Doctors Of BC) are asking what is happening at the helm of the BCMA? Some are saying they think the new CEO Allan Seckel is not good for the Association and a sign that bad things are happening to the ...

Forum topic - zessak - 2021-12-09 14:07 - 6 comments - 0 attachments - 1 group

Three Reasons for a Chat with Dr. Bonnie Henry, BC Health Minister Adrian Dix and BC Premier David Eby

... Hotel in the Guildford Ballroom ADDRESS: 15269 104 Ave, Surrey, BC V3R 1N5 For this one I am already registered to ...

Forum topic - zessak - 2023-08-05 08:27 - 6 comments - 1 attachment - 1 group

Will BC doctors do something before it's too late?

... up to negotiations with the provincial government in 2018. A unique and untested structure, the first of its kind under the new BC ... responsible for negotiations with government in 2018; determining doctors working conditions, requirements for paperwork, ... https://www.doctorsofbc.ca/sites/default/files/2017-2018_election_summar... Feel free to make your opinions known to the ...

Forum topic - zessak - 2018-02-25 18:26 - 5 comments - 0 attachments - 1 group

Requirements to be Deputy Registrar at College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPSBC) – Is something different?

Z. Essak, MD – Vancouver, BC – 2015 Apr 23 The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC is looking to hire a new Deputy Registrar with the deadline for applications of April 30, 2015 fast approaching. Is there something different a ...

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