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Help identify post-mastectomy research priorities
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Help identify post-mastectomy research priorities

BY: Muna Hassan

The Canadian Research Consortium on Post Mastectomy Breast Reconstruction is looking for physicians and members of the public to participate in a 5-minute online questionnaire to help identify... Read More

Canada Day
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On Canada Day, a salute to a founding father and physician, Sir Charles Tupper, MD

BY: George Szasz, CM, MD

Sir Charles Tupper, MD. By Jacques Reich, public domain via Wikimedia Commons This year we are celebrating Canada’s 151st birthday. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the newly delineated provinces... Read More

Evolutionary medicine: Does our microbiome hold the answers?
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Evolutionary medicine: Does our microbiome hold the answers?

BY: George Szasz, CM, MD

If we can get to the moon, how come we cannot lick cancer? I have heard exasperated friends and patients cry out in frustration. Unfortunately, the answer is simple: more or less 500 years ago Newton... Read More

Families with two dads
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Families with two dads: Happy Fathers’ Day

BY: George Szasz, CM, MD

While celebrating Mother’s Day 108 years ago, Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane wanted to designate a special day for her father. Mr Dod raised Sonora from newborn to adulthood after Mrs Dod died soon... Read More

The behavioral, not physiological, immune system
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The behavioral, not physiological, immune system

BY: George Szasz, CM, MD

Who knew that we have a behavioral immune system? Or that when it’s activated it may put the brakes on our drive to connect with our peers socially? Before reading a recent research paper out of... Read More

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BCMJ

The BCMJ is a general medical journal that shares knowledge while building connections among BC physicians.

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ISSN 0007‍-‍0556 (Print)
ISSN 2293‍-‍6106 (Online)
Established 1959