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A recent CTV news story revealed that the UBC Faculty of Medicine is running low on a precious resource—cadavers.

The research team for a hearing-health project from the UBC School of Audiology and Speech Sciences is seeking feedback from primary care providers through an online survey to determine how to best support them in ensuring their patients with hearing concerns access hearing health care.

As medical students—and as human beings—we were horrified when the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade.

During my fourth year of medicine (68 years ago) my small clinical group was led to the bedside of a man recently admitted with the diagnosis of syphilis. “Remember this visit!” said our clinical instructor, “you will probably never see another patient with syphilis in your future practice.” Indeed, I have not. 

June 2022 is ALS Awareness Month in British Columbia. This post is part 4 of a 4-part series about ALS.