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Letters / January/February 2020

Chaos in primary care

BY: Robert H. Brown, MD, CCFP

As all family physicians in BC can attest, we are living in a swamp of chaos in primary care. My patients can go to any clinic, real or virtual, for care. I am expected to receive third-hand... Read More

Letters / January/February 2020

Breath of fresh air

BY: G. Frank O. Tyers, MD, FRCSC, FACS, FACC, ABS, ABTS

Some major medical journals are now presenting obvious social and humanities concepts in stupefying detail, so the October 2019 issue of the BCMJ was a breath of fresh air. An osteopath friend once... Read More

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Premise / December 2019

The age of mushrooms is upon us in medicine

BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC

Some of us will remember turn-on-tune-in-drop-out Timothy Leary, the psychologist whose work on then-legal psychedelics in the 1960s got him fired from Harvard University. His subsequent arrest and... Read More

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President's Comment / December 2019

Strength in numbers: The power of cooperation

BY: Kathleen Ross, MD

Dr Kathleen Ross “We must use collegiality not to level people down, but to bring together their strength and creativity.”     —Andy Hargreaves As my year as... Read More

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Editorials / December 2019

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

BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC, Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG

Researchers in the UK recently published the results of a worldwide analysis on menopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer risk in the Lancet.[1] The analysis included 58 studies, published between... 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