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 ...

Forum topic - zessak - 2024-05-14 22:19 - 6 comments - 0 attachments - 1 group

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

Vancouver, BC – May 3, 2010 When it comes to the privacy of personal health information everyone in British Columbia needs to know how FIPPA (also known as FOIPPA) is different from PIPA, and the same may apply in other jurisdictions across ...

Story - zessak - 2010-05-03 09:53 - 0 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 ...

Forum topic - zessak - 2024-04-16 11:51 - 1 comment - 0 attachments - 1 group

Dr Eric Cadesky becomes new President-Elect Doctors Of BC

... term limits had an 8% turnout in the fall of 2014 The 2007 PMA had a turnout of 18% OTHER PROVINCES -Ontario has paper or ...

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

Has the BC Medical Association been stolen from the members?

... http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/marisa-adair/52/35b/307 Paul Straszak, LinkedIn ...

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

Dr. McDonnell on the History of Medicine in BC

This was included as part of another post on Doclounge.net but may be more useful as a separate post, especially for history buffs. In particular the article attached, [6] McDonnell - Early medical legislation The full series of 12 articles ...

Forum topic - zessak - 2018-09-10 09:16 - 0 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 ...

Forum topic - zessak - 2018-03-04 19:31 - 0 comments - 2 attachments - 1 group

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

... news about BC Ferries: https://globalnews.ca/news/9407748/bc-ferries-management-executives/ BC Ferries has more senior ... confirmed. It also employs 18 superintendents, 207 managers and eight executives. Eric McNeely, president of the B.C. ...

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

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

Dr. Zafar Essak, MD - Vancouver, BC - April 5, 2023 Having worked for 40 years as a family physician in BC, when I heard the media announcements recently: that on April 3 vaccine mandates will be lifted on BC public service government workers but ...

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

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