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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 ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD July/August 2021
... in the matter. He was renamed without his approval. Many people have names that could be considered difficult to ... despite us living in a multicultural world, there are many people of different races and ethnicities who shorten or ... name to fit in. However, by transforming their name, these people essentially lose their identity. I recently listened ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD July/August 2021
... is learning that, in spite of these uncertain times, people want very similar things in life. It doesn’t matter ... in a similar way. I’ve come across a lot of different people in my life. Young people. Older people. Disadvantaged people. Privileged ...
Letters / BY: Mandana Kaviani, MD September 2021
... the last week of June claimed the lives of more than 300 people. Based on a report from the Asthma and Allergy ...
Letters / BY: Roger Purnell, MBChB, FRCSC September 2021
... time. These patients will join the ever-ballooning pool of people waiting for unnecessary musculoskeletal MRIs. It also ...
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, ...
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 ...