July

I enjoy traveling, but there is always part of me that looks forward to returning home. Often the attraction is not much more than sleeping in my own bed and using my own shower! However, sometimes there are extra things to be grateful for: drinking water out of the tap, a sense of security walking along the street, and breathing cleaner air.

I love boobies, I really do. As I am writing this I have recently re­turned from the BCMJ’s Galapagos CME cruise and I have to say that the blue-footed boobie is one of my favorite birds. During mating season the male even lifts one foot after the other as if to say, “See, they really are blue.”

BC has used the new Public Health Act to restrict industrially produced trans fat in food service establishments. Here’s what you should know.

On 7 March 2009, the Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport announced that BC will be the first province in Canada to restrict industrially produced trans fat in all food prepared, served, or offered for sale in BC food service establishments.

In April 2009, clusters of severe respiratory illness in Mexico and sporadic cases of more typical in­fluenza illness were identified in California and Texas due to a novel influ­enza A H1N1 (human swine) strain. This virus is composed of a complex reassortment of genes from human, avian, and swine influenza.[1] In the weeks after swine-origin influenza vi­rus (S-OIV) was first recognized, an increasing number of cases were reported throughout North America and subsequently elsewhere around the globe.

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience,” stated Alice James (1848–1892), sister of novelist Henry James and philosopher William James.[1] Several decades later, in 1927, Dr Francis Peabody wrote, “The treatment of a disease may be entirely impersonal; the care of a pa­tient must be completely personal.”[2]