Thank you for your letter and very appropriate comments regarding the use of resins. In our paper we report the results of a CQI project whereby we attempted to educate residents regarding a sequential and logical approach to treating hyperkalemia. While we completely agree with your comments, and the lack of evidence regarding the use of resins, we were faced with the pragmatic difficulty of “standard of care” in the context of a large medical service with multiple attending physicians.
In the January/February 2012 issue we made two errors in the Pulsimeter item “BC first: Hemodialysis” (BCMJ 2012;54:44). First, we wrote that “Russell Palmer’s hemodialysis in September 1947 was the first clinically successful treatment in North America,” when it should have read “the first clinically successful treatment in North America using Dr Willem Kolff’s original equipment…”
The Mental Health module from the GPSC’s Practice Support Program (PSP) offers training for family physicians to help them screen patients for a wide range of mental health conditions. The treatment approaches presented through the module enhance family physicians’ skills and confidence in providing effective primary care for patients with mild to moderate depression and anxiety.
Recently media focus has been on high-profile criminal cases being thrown out of court due to time delays. I am sure most law-abiding citizens of this province are dismayed when a presumed innocent but obviously guilty scumbag goes free, not due to inadequate evidence but court delays. We aren’t talking about good people here. I started to get curious about why these trials get delayed, so I did some research.
