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Obituaries /
BY: Paul Wright, MD
September 2021
... Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver. Legacies are about people, and Pat created legacies. He was a leader and an ...
President's Comment /
BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD
September 2021
... What you want. We need to consider, ask, and learn how people want to be treated. In the same way that I cannot tell ... to describe as it can mean different things to different people, cultures, and generations. I describe it as a pattern of certain behaviors: honorable people keep their word, maintain confidences, tell the truth, ...
Proust for Physicians
September 2021
... me satisfied. What is your greatest fear? Heights, and people who have nothing to lose. What is the trait you most ...
Editorials /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
October 2021
... times and have a hard time hiding this fact. So, do I help people, or do they stay with me because they don’t really ... However, my patients and family members will tell me what people have posted: one guy gave me terrible scores in all ...
Editorials, COVID-19 /
BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB
October 2021
... from worry). It isn’t only thanks to having some special people in my life. I believe that many of us are starting to ... nevertheless frustrated, like the rest of you, that some people are choosing to remain unvaccinated. We have all heard ... working at a vaccine clinic recently, I reassured some people, tongue in cheek, that the vaccine they were receiving ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 /
BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD
October 2021
... of BC doctors has actually grown during the pandemic. People have joined us from different provinces and different ...
Editorials /
BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP
November 2021
... that of failure to provide relief from suffering for people living with severe pain or shortness of breath. Access ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Philippa Hawley, FRCPC
November 2021
... but the principles of cancer pain management apply to people living with many other serious chronic illnesses.[ 2 ] ... to loss of autonomy and the ability do the things that people used to enjoy, and because of fear of a painful ...
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 ...
Editorials /
BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD
November 2021
... review and were presented to everyone equally, imagine how people would act, and how compassion and community and ...