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Back Page / BY: Graham C. Fraser, FRCS, FACS October 2009
... children, the smaller citizens of our society. Several people, upon hearing this, have said, “Oh dear, how awful. ... children are truthful, direct, and reliable historians and people, as well as seldom obese! They are trusting and ... incredible advances in diagnosis and treatment technology. People get better because of us and, on occasion, in spite of ...
Back Page / BY: Graham C. Fraser, FRCS, FACS December 2009
... fussy or irritable.” But that would be wrong. For these people are, or were, highly intelligent business and professional people who functioned at a very high level. The onset of ... Although only a friend or acquaintance to these people, I have found these experiences profoundly disturbing, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James K. Lai, MD, CCFP, FCFP, April 2009
... to acknowledge the leadership and support of the following people, who all ensured the successful completion of this ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, May 2009
... the number of cases was already declining as a result of people leaving the area, Snow managed to reduce the number ... had numerous such organisms in their stools and healthy people did not. He described a “comma-shaped bacillus” ... But these factors are a gigantic challenge for millions of people living in pov­erty around the world. Thousands of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Farsheed Hedayati-Vala, MD, July/August 2008
... central Bri­tish Columbia serves a population of 12 000 people. From September 2002 to December 2004 (2.5 years), 677 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Helen Novak Lauscher, PhD May 2008
For most people in British Columbia, the family physician provides an ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nupura Krishnadev, MD, October 2008
... an elevated cardiovascular risk.  Studies suggest that people with schizophrenia are two to three times more likely ... frequency of diabetes has been found in the relatives of people with schizophrenia, suggesting a genetic association ... Competing interests None declared. Studies suggest that people with schizophrenia are two to three times more likely ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Catherine L. Weber, MD, FRCPC, July/August 2008
... kidney disease (CKD). In BC, there are at least 145 000 people with an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of less than 60 mL/min, and about 35 000 people whose physicians have actually identified CKD as a ... if you also include those at highest risk for CKD (people with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or both), this ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Borys Flak, MD, FRCPC, May 2008
... in­creases significantly after age 50.  More than 700 people die of CRC annually in BC alone, each losing an ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Susan Albersheim, MD, FRCPC, PhD, November 2008
... with as such, we must recognize that equally competent people can make totally different decisions based on personal ... of viability. Moreover, the manner in which reasonable people make decisions varies. Therefore, since the ...