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Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn Thorpe, MD, FRCPC July/August 2018
... has been highlighted in the media.[ 10 , 11 , 12 ] Young people age 20 to 29 years have higher rates of mental illness ... 15 ] Mental illness is highly detrimental to these young people, delaying or preventing their education, increasing ...
Proust for Physicians July/August 2018
... What is your greatest fear? Seeing pain and suffering in people I love. What is the trait you most deplore in ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP September 2018
... antivaccine movement counters with tales of profits-over-people, conspiracies to control individual freedoms, and ... misses the point: to achieve the goals of healthier people and societies, stories are exactly what we need.  ... and stories in our style to build bridges and appeal to people’s hearts as well as their heads.  And if using our ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Fahra Rajabali, MSc September 2018
... affects the practice of physicians who must care for these people. In the past decade, efforts have been made to ... estimate because costs were assigned only for injured people age 15 to 64 and not for those who leave the workforce ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patricia Caddy, MD October 2018
... included primary care physicians, trainees, and people with opioid use disorder throughout BC. Based on the ... The needs of primary care physicians, trainees, and people with opioid use disorder were considered during ... included primary care physicians, trainees, and people with opioid use disorder throughout BC. Feedback was ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP October 2018
... do? 1.    Recognize that the health care system and the people it cares for are complex. Complex systems evolve over ... person but not another, or it may cause side effects. How people react to the same infection, treatment, or trauma is ... While we argue about the highest standard of privacy, people willingly give up some of this right daily to interact ...
Proust for Physicians October 2018
... is your most marked characteristic? I am not very tall! People most often tell me I am always calm (even in a crisis) ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD October 2018
... the Order of Canada for “her tireless work on behalf of people with kidney disease, both nationally and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Maureen Clement, MD, CCFP November 2018
... 2 , 3 ] Primary care physicians manage the majority of people living with diabetes, and more than 20% of a typical ... physician’s caseload will likely involve caring for people with either diabetes or prediabetes.[ 4 ] Not only is ... preferences and values are considered by consulting people with diabetes and reviewing the literature. Each ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Keith G. Dawson, MD, PhD, FRCPC November 2018
... rate of type 2 diabetes is 8.8%,[ 1 ] with Indigenous people being disproportionally affected.[ 2 ] In Canada, the ... in women.[ 3 ] It is predicted that one in two Indigenous people in their 20s will develop diabetes at some point in ... communities. This is of consequence, since many Indigenous people have had adverse experiences with authorities who are ...