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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: 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: Robert H. Brown, MD, CCFP January/February 2020
... long way behind those in Ontario. So, good luck to all the people who want to improve primary care. Babylon Health, pot ...
Letters / BY: Robert H. Brown, MD, CCFP June 2020
... largely because family physicians are neither business people nor endowed with the upfront financial resources to ... arises whether they will have a net benefit to the people of the province. After all, it is the people of BC who pay for them through taxation and fees paid ...
Letters / BY: Shelley Ross, MD January/February 2020
... and provincial levels. I believe we have the right people at the right tables to work through the challenging ...
Letters / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP November 2020
... that this article will have unintended consequences for people who should be receiving opioid-based therapy.  ... in the article do not apply to a significant number of people. The figure in the article is titled only “acute and ... family doctor. Pain is prevalent in 30% to 50% of people who receive cancer-directed treatments and over 70% of ...
Letters / BY: Helen Hays, MD, CCFP, FCFP January/February 2020
... are not useful for injured workers unless they help people get back to work. This article [ BCMJ 2019;61:176,179 ...
Letters / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC March 2020
... dozens of patents to his name, but with enough publicity people like him can easily become gurus, which is not good. I ...
Letters / BY: Jonathan M. Winner, MD March 2020
... in walk-in clinics, where they could see large numbers of people with relatively minor complaints and would not have to ... boom, and in a few years, there will be thousands more people living here. Who is going to look after all of us? ...
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 ...