December 2019

BC Centre for Disease Control

Shared decision making and breastfeeding: Supporting families’ informed choices

Clinical Articles

Drug-induced psychosis and neurological effects following nitrous oxide misuse: A case report

The influence of breast density on breast cancer diagnosis: A study of participants in the BC Cancer Breast Screening Program

Council on Health Promotion

Canada’s revolutionary new food guide

Editorials

My selfish Christmas wish

New research on hormones and breast cancer: The headlines don’t convey what women need to know

Family Practice Services Committee

PSP supports for quality improvement activities: Refreshed compensation policy, simplified certification process

MDs To Be

The role of genetics in medicine: A future of precision medicine

News

New DNA “clock” could help measure development in young children

BC’s top family physician of 2019

Book review: Essential Caregiving Guide: How to optimize the extended care your loved one needs

Celebrating a family medicine milestone and 1969 trailblazers

Hear from patients: New GPSC Patient Experience Tool

Mushroom poisonings on the rise in BC

New international exercise guidelines for cancer survivors

Patients with mood, anxiety disorders share abnormalities in brain’s control circuit

Obituaries

Dr Pascualito Aquino Seminiano, 1947–2019

Dr Donald Wilson Lang, 1931–2019

Mr James (Jim) Edward Gilmore, 1930–2019

Premise

The age of mushrooms is upon us in medicine

President's Comment

Strength in numbers: The power of cooperation

Specialist Services Committee

Physician engagement gains traction across BC

WorkSafeBC

Workplace exposure to rabies