Dr Rowe is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada, and a former BCMJ Editorial Board member. He is a recognized expert in menopause and hormone therapy.
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Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG
Researchers in the UK recently published the results of a worldwide analysis on menopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer risk in the Lancet.[1] The analysis included 58 studies, published between 1992 and 2018, of... Read More
This will be my last BCMJ editorial. The editor has politely refrained from asking if I’m thinking of leaving the Editorial Board . . . but now it’s time. To everything there is a season. As well as bringing freedom... Read More
By Daniel M. Davis. Doubleday Canada, 2018. ISBN-10: 0385686765. Hardcover, 272 pages. During medical school, and forever after, I found immunology to be the medical subject that was hardest to understand. Apart... Read More
1971 was a heckuva year, as George W. Bush might have said. Justin Trudeau was born in 1971; so too were Elon Musk, Amy Poehler, and Pavel Bure. So, too, was Greenpeace. As if that wasn’t enough, 1971 was the year in... Read More
It may be the current bizarre state of the world, or just that I’m getting older, but I’m growing concerned about our ability to communicate with each other. Political partisanship, to begin with, and regional and other... Read More
We have survived (perhaps the wrong word) the fall season of CME. It can be exhausting trying to amass the number of CME credits required to stay registered before the end of the calendar year, but I trust that most of... Read More
Of course it had to happen when I was least prepared for it—that is, my need to seek urgent care. As a card-carrying member of the system that provides that care, I confess that I had a degree of wariness about how I... Read More
My goodness, talking to patients can be instructive. I’m not referring to the old Osler adage “listen to the patient” (or “go to the bedside,” or whatever it was). No, I’m talking about hearing words of wisdom from them... Read More
I had been in practice for a few years, and had been involved in the management of quite a number of women with ovarian cancer, when "It's Over, Debbie" appeared in JAMA in early 1988. In that anonymous essay... Read More
My first serious surgical experience was on my second day as an intern (or “junior resident,” as we were called then). I was on call for the surgical unit in a regional referral hospital, and my surgical consultant had... Read More