“Cyberchondriac” is a term pertaining to a person who seeks health-related information on the Internet.[1] These people tend to focus on the worst-case scenario and often search for the vaguest... Read More
Letters
Health of the incarcerated is an important, complex problem [BCMJ 2012;54:485-548]. I was very surprised that this special issue didn’t address the health of all jailed in BC, both men and women... Read More
We may be laughing at the lack of scientific credibility of tobacco smoke enemas as a cure-all in the 18th century [BCMJ 2012;54:496-497], but it is more than likely that our current-day... Read More
Health Canada intermittently issues advisories with a warning or stop-sale order on harmful complementary and alternative medicines. Homeopathic medicine is supposed to be safe to use because of its... Read More
Memberships must sometimes, in our personal view, look beyond what their Board has done, to what it hasn’t. Our BCMA Board has not examined what is achieved by annually spending $18 million in... Read More