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Clinical Articles / BY: Marcos Gobrial, MD, CCFP December 2002
... Bella Coola serve an estimated clinic population of 2750 people. [2]  Each year these physicians see more than 8000 ... may also be due to the greater percentage of aboriginal people who live in these areas. [2,6]  Native people in British Columbia, across Canada, and across North ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert Ferrari, MD, FRCPC July/August 2002
... behave remarkably the same; and yet very differently from people in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. ... is a key to the whiplash phenomenon. In one study, 39 people with chronic neck pain were investigated. Five of the ... Physical sources of pain can and do exist, but it is how people interpret the significance of that pain in relation to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Bigham, MD May 2002
... in December in Abbotsford, with approximately 150 people immunized. As of March 2002, these public health ... transient inhabitant of the nose and throat of healthy people, where it will typically persist for periods ranging ... cases. At any one time, between 10% and 20% of healthy people (corresponding to between 400000 and 800000 people in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Chris Whittington, MB BS, MBA, FCFP, FACRRM December 2002
... is probably the most common inherited disorder of people of northern European ancestry. Once it was thought to ... cirrhosis, and pigmentation likely occurs in 1 in 20 000 people. However, the disorder, with its protean ... The prevalence is between 1 in 200 to 1 in 400 in people of northern European ancestry. [2,3]  An even higher ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Theresa Isomura, MD, FRCPC October 2002
... Psychiatry in BC 1995/1996 Report  identified that 60% of people with schizophrenia and 83% of people with any mental illnesses in the Simon Fraser Area ... unable to intervene. The program has empowered me to help people earlier because I recognize the psychiatric component ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP May 2002
... British Columbia’s rural communities of fewer than 7000 people are between 60% and 80%. [5]  If a community has 10 ... Typical retention rates for communities with 7000 or more people are higher, between 85% to 90%. A recent decrease in ... of physician services, and ultimately, better care for the people living in under-serviced rural Canada. [20-23] ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J. Ellen Anderson, MD October 2002
... situation is hopeless? Yes No 15. Do you think that most people are better off than you? Yes No Scoring “No” to ... TV.         h. Moving or speaking so slowly that other people could have noticed.  Or the opposite; being so ... work, take care of things at home, or get along with other people? Not difficult at all Somewhat difficult Very ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gunter P. Siegmund, PhD, PEng June 2002
... as a site of chronic pain in many whiplash-injured people. Clinical Articles The biomechanics of whiplash injury ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert Ferrari, MD, FRCPC June 2002
... and neither being part of a single disease process. People are exposed to injuries during many phases of their ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Erin E. Michalak, PhD October 2002
... a large proportion of their time diagnosing and treating people with emotional or psychiatric problems. [6]   Yet ... been increasingly recognized that a large proportion of people who become depressed will develop either a chronic or ...