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Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2022
... grew up with. There was a great sense of community, great people. We have always had lovely neighbors. Where’s your ... Ladner Pioneer Library; I used to take out more books than people would think I could read, but medicine was my biggest ... life into the world, delivering babies, and then have people take their last breath with you in a palliative ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Jocelyn Y. Wong October 2022
... generating feelings of hesitancy among pregnant people and people who plan to conceive. Recently, vaccine clinical ... A Canada-wide study, CANCOVID-Preg, reported that pregnant people with COVID-19 infection have a stillbirth rate of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Omair Arshad, MD July/August 2022
... use is increasing at an alarming rate among young people. Hammond and colleagues found that in their ... that e-cigarettes may be a risk factor leading people toward combustible cigarette use. A meta-analysis ... meaning that there are common factors that drive people to use both combustible and e-cigarettes, but the two ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sahil Kumar, MSc January/February 2022
... health and well-being of transgender and gender-diverse people. Clinical Articles Gender-affirming surgical care in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Emily Ertel, MD November 2022
... has 196 beds and serves a catchment of more than 125 000 people. Patients require transfer to Kelowna General Hospital ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: O. Maheshwari, MD November 2022
... the age of 40 years.[ 2 ] In British Columbia one in four people experience a mental health condition each year.[ 3 ] ... of the pandemic,[ 6 ] which disproportionately affected people who were already experiencing health inequities prior to the pandemic: women, LGBTQIA2S+ people, individuals with likelihood of job loss or inadequate ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP November 2021
... through the bowel, but this makes them well tolerated in people on dialysis or with significant renal failure.[ 8 , 9 ... suited to Patient A’s pharmacogenomics. Up to 25% of people have polymorphisms in the genes that control opioid ... rate of ultrarapid metabolism at 21%, and Europeans and people of Jewish lineage have the highest rate of poor ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-kwe), JD, LLM, SJD March 2021
... governance structure to advance inclusion of First Nations people in health care design and decision making.[ * ] ... p. 8). The problem Racism is the belief that a group of people are inferior based on the color of their skin or their ... nonattachment was 88.5% higher than that of non-Indigenous people.[ 1 ] The review also examined avoidable ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Tonia Tauh, MD, FRCPC March 2021
... A rapid vaccine rollout has many roadblocks, from some people’s initial hesitancy to receive a novel vaccine to ... supply, our society must balance vaccinating as many people as possible in short order with the strict timing ... there was no difference in vaccine efficacy between the people who got their second dose at day 19 and the people who ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ray Markham, MB ChB, MRCGP, FCFP December 2021
... intersectional approach was also imperative. Historically, people who identify as men have dominated the health ... service sector workers.[ 11 ] Additionally, First Nations people experience disproportionally negative health outcomes ... action items. Partnership groups consisted of people from different organizations or groups coming together ...