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Letters / BY: Roger Purnell, MBChB, FRCSC March 2022
... put the number of MRIs done in BC annually at 1 per 21 people, and 1 per 18.5 nationally. Within the central NHA ...
Letters / BY: Nickie Mathew, MD, MSc, ABPN, FRCPC, ABPM July/August 2021
... Some of the information may have not been new to people who work extensively in the field of addictions. ... Further, there are many examples of the experience of people who use drugs in the medical literature but very few examples of people who sell drugs. The goal of the article was to ...
Letters / BY: Mandana Kaviani, MD September 2021
... the last week of June claimed the lives of more than 300 people. Based on a report from the Asthma and Allergy ...
Letters / BY: Roger Purnell, MBChB, FRCSC September 2021
... time. These patients will join the ever-ballooning pool of people waiting for unnecessary musculoskeletal MRIs. It also ...
Letters / BY: Anne Pousette, MD, MPH December 2021
... of BC’s comprehensive physical activity strategy, Active People, Active Places,[ 1 ] and the 2020 update[ 2 ] ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Walter, MD January/February 2021
... ] notes the steady decline in the proportion of people over 65 being started on opioids and the harm that ...
Letters / BY: Susan M. Lee, MD, FRCPC, MAS January/February 2021
... 3 ] with depression and anxiety rates similar to those in people with cancer; and feelings of regret, sadness, and ...
Letters / BY: Michelle Danda July/August 2021
... of Drug Users (VANDU) and the Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs (CAPUD) are instrumental in changing stereotypes of PWUD and engaging people with lived experience in the process of research and ... power imbalance. We must question the ethics of asking people who are accessing health care services for more ...
Letters / BY: Marisa Ponzo, MD-PhD, FRCPC April 2020
... (SCARs) in specific at-risk populations, primarily people of East Asian descent. SCARs include Stevens-Johnson ...
Letters, COVID-19 / BY: Nilanga Aki Bandara, BSc June 2020
... we need to bring sensible policies to protect our young people from devastating effects of COVID-19. The American ... clinical guidance to highlight the well-known risk. People who smoke or use e-cigarettes have a significantly ... respiratory infections like the coronavirus, and people with decreased lung function caused by smoking or ...