We know our patients intimately, their complaints and maladies. But do we know how they act when they get behind the wheel? We’re called upon to reach that conclusion for all our patients, but mostly for those over the age of 80, who require a medical exam every 2 years in order to maintain their driver’s licence.
I’ve found the mnemonic SAFE DRIVE, from the Canadian Medical Association Driver’s Guide, 7th edition, Determining Medical Fitness to Operate Motor Vehicles, a great help:
In February the Canadian Thoracic Society published a comprehensive report called The Human and Economic Burden of COPD. The report points out that COPD is the most underdiagnosed chronic disease in our society yet is the leading consumer of hospital beds and health care dollars.
I had just returned from a run, completed my triple-S (ask a guy) and was getting dressed when a large truck drove by, vibrating the condo. Being from BC, as the sound and violent shaking built I quickly recognized this as an earthquake.
As objects began to launch themselves from the walls my dilemma became clear. Run for safety in my birthday suit or tempt possible death by taking time to put on underwear and shorts—I chose death. I later discovered that my boxer briefs had been on backwards all day.
Growth monitoring and promotion of optimal growth can improve the nutritional status and health outcomes of Canadian infants, children, and adolescents. Interpretation of measurements of weight and length or height for all children and head circumference for infants in relation to a standard growth chart is essential to confirm a child’s healthy growth and development.
In April 2009, a novel H1N1 influenza virus (pH1N1) was detected in southern USA and Mexico. It was first identified by the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Public Health Microbiology Reference Laboratory (BCPHL), Provincial Health Services Authority Laboratories, in British Columbia at the end of April.
