DocTalks: A Doctors of BC Podcast

In this episode, we talk with Phillip Cunningham, VP of Business Development at Westland MyGroup Insurance, and Jeffrey Gopal, Insurance Advisor from Doctors of BC, about insurance best practices that doctors can revisit as part of a yearly business checkup. Brought to you by Business Pathways (https://www.doctorsofbc.ca/managing-your-practice/business-pathways) , a Doctors of BC initiative. ...

In this episode, we talk with Shaun Howe, Partner in Assurance & Accounting from MNP LLP about financial best practices that doctors can revisit as part of a yearly business checkup. Brought to you by Business Pathways (https://www.doctorsofbc.ca/managing-your-practice/business-pathways) , a Doctors of BC initiative. Additional resources: The Finance Checkup (https://www.doctorsofbc.ca/busin...

In this episode, we talk with Leanne Walsh, Employment Lawyer from West Coast Workplace Law, and Jackie Connelly, People & Strategy Manager from Doctors of BC, about key aspects of HR best practices that doctors can revisit as part of a yearly business checkup. Brought to you by Business Pathways (https://www.doctorsofbc.ca/managing-your-practice/business-pathways) , a Doctors of BC initiative...

In this episode of DocTalks, we speak to Dr Aseem Grover, rural family physician and the Site Medical Director of the Fraser Canyon Hospital in Hope, BC, who recalls his harrowing experiences and lessons learned in providing emergency care through wide-ranging wildfires and unprecedented flooding last year. With continued heatwaves and record temperatures, it’s anticipated BC will continue to ...

In this first episode of our new DocTalks vodcast, Doctors of BC President Dr Ramneek Dosanjh hosts a roundtable discussion that gives viewers insight into Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and high-conflict separation and divorce and what doctors and lawyers need to know to best support families experiencing it. It also speaks to the cross-sectoral allyship between doctors and lawyers to ra...

On the first podcast episode of DocTalks Season Two, we speak to experts Julie Jones and Carl Prophet about how doctors can optimize their physical and online safety. We’re hearing more and more reports of violent threats—either physical, verbal, or digital—directed towards physicians, triggered specifically by tension created by the COVID-19 pandemic.    These events have incited many indivi...

Introducing a new season of DocTalks: A Doctors of BC podcast. This season on DocTalks, we are changing it up.    Our president, Dr Ramneek Dosanjh, be hosting video podcasts with fellow colleagues from across the province about health care topics that matter most to BC doctors, like the opioid crisis, diversity and inclusion, adverse childhood experiences, and tech and innovation.    And ...

In this episode of DocTalks, we talk to Dr Linda Uyeda who, after the birth of her first child 18 years ago, expanded her medical education to explore neuroscience, parenting, trauma, and attachment. We learn about the physiological impact of trauma and ACEs on our minds and bodies, and how understanding the science can shift thinking to make a difference to the way doctors’ practice and the su...

As the COVID-19 vaccines roll out across BC and the rest of Canada, there are significant concerns about vaccine hesitancy. If too many people are unwilling to get the vaccine because of those concerns, everyone’s safety is compromised.    In this episode of DocTalks, we speak to vaccine safety scientist, Dr Julie Bettinger, and family doctors, Dr Birinder Narang and Dr Baldev Sanghera, about...

As doctors across BC try to meet the unprecedented demands that the COVID-19 pandemic has placed on them, reports of physician burnout are increasing. But what does burnout actually look like? How do you recognize the early warning signs so you can take steps to prevent it? And where do doctors go for help?   In this episode of DocTalks, psychiatrist Dr Jennifer Russel and family doctor Dr La...

In the first DocTalks podcast of 2021, we invite Dr Terri Aldred and Len Pierre to discuss how to define and understand cultural safety and the intricacies of addressing this systemic problem.

In the first episode of DocTalks, a new direction for BC’s primary health care system is explored. We’ve heard the names, but what really are patient medical homes and primary care networks? Host Dr Matthew Chow, with guests Drs Brenda Hefford and Shelley Ross, take a deep dive into the current primary care landscape to unpack ideas about: how patient medical homes and primary care networks rel...