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Douglas J. Courtemanche, MD, MS, CRCSC
At the bottom of the first table of contents page of the November 2023 issue of the BCMJ is a list. The list documents six things the journal is doing to minimize its environmental impact. On the back cover of that... Read More
I was saddened to read of the passing of Dr Ken Turnbull. He was one of my favorite teachers, colleagues, and mentors. In 1986, when I was a resident, he was one of the ICU attending staff. He had a great way of... Read More
Opioids are an essential component of multimodal therapy for acute and cancer pain management. Legitimate opioid prescription use in this setting is not considered to be a major contributor to chronic opioid misuse.[1,2... Read More
Duncan was easy to like, occasionally difficult to fathom, and annoyingly intelligent with numerous interests both within and outside his profession. We met as junior surgical residents at Vancouver General Hospital... Read More
Background In 1965 Dr Angelo DiGeorge first described the syndromic presentation of infants with thymic aplasia, hypoparathyroidism, and cardiac outflow tract anomalies.[1,2] DiGeorge syndrome was later grouped with... Read More
Dr Robert J. Cowan, a pioneer plastic surgeon in British Columbia, died peacefully at home on 21 April 2014. Born in Scarborough, Ontario, and raised in Toronto, Dr Cowan graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at... Read More