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George Szasz, CM, MD
Happy 60th birthday to the writers, editors, designers, and all others who create the BC Medical Journal! This journal forms a common bond for the doctors of our province. In addition to presenting valued medical... Read More
By Anthony Kenyon, MD. Fort Nelson News, 2016. ISBN 978-177136-414-0. 519 pages. Dr Anthony Kenyon’s book, The Recorded History of the Liard Basin, 1790–1910, is a definitive history of the Liard Basin—where... Read More
A recent survey of BCMJ readers indicated that “only about 9% of readers use bcmj.org as their primary reading medium.” The research results presented do not specify what percentage of doctors read the ... Read More
By Douglas Hassan, MD. New York, NY: Page Publishing, 2015. ISBN 978-1-68139-655-2. Paperback. Dr Hassan was in several of my classes while working toward his medical degree at UBC in 1987, and then went on to... Read More
The archival project seeking literary works described in the September 2014 issue (BCMJ 2014;56:349) is meant to honor existing literary works of BC physicians and encourage other doctors and medical students to... Read More
Choosing Wisely Canada is the brand name of a campaign to ensure high quality medical care. One of their current publications lists 13 tests and treatments that family physicians and patients should question. The... Read More
My sweet wife, Bess, is languishing in her deep dementia. As it is, I say thanks each day of the year to our caregivers, friends, doctors, pharmacists, food and drugstore store clerks, gardeners, plumbers, post persons... Read More
“Vancouver’s first ‘sex doll brothel’ could be opening soon” announced the headline in the Wednesday, 26 September 2018 edition of the Vancouver Sun.[1] According to the article, sex doll brothels could offer a service... Read More
The Vancouver Sun recently reported that the foot-lift, sometimes referred to as “Cinderella surgery,” is becoming a fast-growing and somewhat controversial sector of the cosmetic surgery industry. Surgical procedures... Read More
A wide range of adaptive sports, sometimes referred to as disabled sports or parasports, are well known to all who watch the Paralympic Games or the more recent Invictus and Warrior Games. Apart from the rehabilitative... Read More