Much of our preventive care and therapeutic work is designed to enable people to live fulfilling lives for longer. This practice fails to acknowledge that the quality of death should be given due... Read More
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Abuse of prescription painkillers is a public health problem that needs urgent attention. Opioid-related death in Ontario in 2004 was estimated at 27.2 per million people, which is more than 3 times... Read More
We appreciate Dr Laycock’s letter about our Clinic. We have just a few comments: • The risk assessment tools and modifiable risk factors we focus on are based on the most widely... Read More
The enthusiasm, earnestness, and aims of the professionals behind the Breast Cancer Prevention and Risk Assessment Clinic project (British Columbia Medical Journal[1]) have to be recognized, and none... Read More
There is a growing suspicion among the citizens of BC that the current system of health care delivery is largely unsustainable under current conditions. This suspicion is well founded, as evidenced... Read More