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WorkSafeBC / BY: Curtis May, MD, MPH, CCFP June 2024
... not work alone during hot conditions. Working with other people can allow for mutual monitoring for signs of heat ...
Review Articles / BY: Natasha Benson, MD, FRCPC September 2024
... with Health System Redesign funding, care of pregnant people with possible cytomegalovirus during pregnancy and ... sudden hearing loss at 3 months old.” “Pregnant people should be advised of [cytomegalovirus], even something ... in-person and telephone consultations for pregnant people, caregivers, and children. The clinic includes ...
Premise / BY: Lauren Whitehead, MD, FRCSC June 2024
... potential impacts on the economy due to this trend—fewer people entering the workforce than leaving it—are ... the aims of funding, including providing treatment for people experiencing infertility, same-sex and gender-diverse ...
Premise / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) January/February 2024
... there is a crisis in primary care. Almost one-third of people who want a family doctor can’t find one, and even people who have a family physician generally find them quite ... and emotionally. We believe greater availability to the people who count on us for care is the critical, needed ...
Premise / BY: A. Hoverman, DO, MPH, CCFP September 2024
... social connections, the  relationships we have with people around us that ground us in our functional well-being. ... Island a retirement destination. In our practices, we see people who are sometimes sick and sometimes not. They come to ... or all of the time, with the problem worst among single people and those who live alone. In “A kingdom of one: The ...
Premise / BY: Ali Zentner, MD, FRCPC, Diplomate ABOM June 2024
... The weight of the matter Worldwide, more than 240 million people have symptomatic and activity-limiting osteoarthritis ... 1 ] In Canada, arthritis affects more than 6 million people. More than 23% of women and 17% of men in Canada live ... to 56% of patients were women.[ 3 ] More than 650 million people worldwide have obesity,[ 1 ] currently defined as a ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD March 2024
... This month, we address you as workers yourselves: people who face unique physical and psychological risks at ...
Back Page / BY: Li (Danny) Liang, MD, BEng, CCFP-EM September 2024
When I tell people that I am an emergency physician, they often think I ... cases in the ER entail and the perception that many people have is perpetuated partly by us, ER physicians. We ... about the resuscitation or trauma cases than about the people who come in for a prescription refill because they ...
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 ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Stephen Lam, MD, FRCPC April 2023
... worldwide.[ 1 ] In British Columbia, an average of seven people die of lung cancer every day; in Canada, more people die from lung cancer than from breast, colon, and ... annual low-dose computed tomography screening in people 55 to 74 years of age who currently smoked or had quit ...