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Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC December 2023
Dr Arthur Brooks teaches people to be happy. He is a Harvard professor and author ... Dr Raymond Cattell ( https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/raymond-cattell ). Fluid intelligence peaks in early ... work wherein you earn your success and you serve other people.” I pushed him on this in our discussion, thinking ...
MDs To Be / BY: Samantha Gibbon, BSc April 2023
... with a supplement to the care they provide to Indigenous people in British Columbia. As I near the end of my training ... to address the specific health needs of Indigenous people affected by the MMIWG tragedies.[ 1 , 2 ] It is ... queer, trans, Two Spirit, and gender-nonconforming people are affected as well. The health outcomes of ...
Clinical Articles, Clinical Case Reports / BY: Eugene Y.H. Yeung, MD, MSc, BSc(Pharm), FCCM, FRCPC November 2023
Between 2009 and 2020, 20 546 people in Canada were reported to have tuberculosis.[ 1 ] ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Kevin E. Liang, MD, CCFP May 2023
... when clinically advantageous. Children, older adults, and people with disabilities may not have the inspiratory flows ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Michelle Ng, MD, CCFP June 2023
... Service Pilot Project and compares this with the number of people in BC who described each language as their only mother ... 3.6% (n = 838). For all of BC, the number of calls per 100 people with limited English proficiency was 15.1. Vancouver had 46.9 calls per 100 people with limited English proficiency, followed by Nanaimo ...
Letters / BY: Rod Densmore, MD December 2023
... need to identify, diagnose, and appropriately support people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and their ... families. We need to become FASD aware. When we diagnose people with FASD we can also learn about their family and ... (FASD), and to develop, in collaboration with Aboriginal people, FASD preventive programs that can be delivered in a ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Brendan Tao, BHSc March 2023
... lifetime.[ 1 ] However, psychosis is far more common among people who use drugs, including 10% of cannabinoid users, ... services in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many people who use drugs returned to or escalated their substance ... increasing rates of substance use, especially stimulants, people who use drugs are increasingly at risk for ...
Premise / BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC September 2023
... Even though the actual costs may be much less because some people make little use of medical services, those costs may ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Elisabeth Baerg Hall, MD, CCFP, FRCPC November 2023
... referral is recommended. The prevalence of ADHD in people with bipolar disorder can be more than 20%.[ 21 ] ... uncomplicated ADHD in their adult patients.[ 29 ] Summary People with ADHD have unique strengths, such as increased ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Nicola Y. Edwards, MHA January/February 2023
... the opioid crisis and provide effective intervention. Many people who die of opioid overdose have recently interacted ... an opportunity for intervention. In one analysis, 77% of people had contact with the health care system in the year ... ( P = .0006). Discussion Our results indicate that people who present with an opioid overdose have frequently ...