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Premise / BY: W.D. Robertson, MB, BChir, FRCPC July/August 2014
... preventive care and therapeutic work is designed to enable people to live fulfilling lives for longer. This practice ... in Canadian hospitals, this one was about 50% occupied by people awaiting placement in long-term care facilities. The prospect of becoming one of those people horrified her. As she put it, “that is not living, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James G. Huang, MD, PGDipSurgAnat, FRACS, September 2014
... in  Table 2 . PSA increases with age and is higher in people of certain races, such as African Americans. ...
Back Page / BY: Janny Ke, September 2014
... to sneak in a kiss. Medicine has brought me into some of people’s most excruciating, profound, and beautiful ...
Letters / BY: James K. Mackenzie, MBBS, September 2014
... almost identical with mine. It seems to me that for those people who are truly disabled the disability pensions ... However, at the same time, there are clearly far too many people being awarded disability pensions on the basis of ...
Letters / BY: Jane Dyson, September 2014
... and are trying to help their clients by "lying to have people collect unjustified income supplements." While we ... view that it would be wrong for any organization to help people fraudulently obtain benefits, we are writing to ... you with a different perspective. The BC Coalition of People with Disabilities (BCCPD) has been assisting ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Shelley Ross, MD October 2014
... have such fun with her patients and her practice that people often asked whether there was a party going on in her ... development. Shirley quickly learned that the issues people bring into emergency are not always straightforward. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kasandra Harriman, MD, CCFP, November 2014
... morbidity and mortality,[ 1 ] especially among elderly people, who are more likely to have comorbid conditions and ... of medication effects in older patients. Elderly people living in residential care facilities are at ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2014
Practising physicians realize more than most that people’s lives can change in an instant. Accidents happen ... they know it. •    Surround yourself with positive people who uplift you and inspire you to be a better person. ...
Letters / BY: Sonya Kashyap, MD, November 2014
... and the mother. As physicians we know this, and we counsel people about this, but in general we don’t always do our ...
Premise / BY: Margaret Reveley, November 2014
... their patients? What are the hidden dangers in untrained people like me even knowing what a uvulopalatopharyngoplasty ... When we start to see doctors’ waiting rooms filled with people holding computer printouts in their hands then we may ...