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Editorials / BY: Terri Aldred, MD January/February 2023
The In Plain Sight report recognized that Indigenous people experience racism in our health care system. The ... biased behavior without shaming the other person. Shaming people is not an effective social justice or educational ... But when I read a couple comments about how “stupid” people are, I didn’t end up posting the comment or reaching ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH December 2023
Drug poisoning is the leading cause of death among people aged 10 to 59 in BC and takes six lives per day in the ... harms in BC. Due to stigma and risk of legal punishment, people using drugs often avoid contact with the health care ... relative to the need. While approximately 100 000 people in BC have diagnosed opioid use disorder, and as many ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC October 2022
... by stopping abortion could also reduce fertility for many people. Furthermore, abortion laws that directly or ... treatments in America may also disproportionately impact people of color, who experience infertility at higher rates, and people of lower socioeconomic status, who may not be able to ...
Editorials / BY: Yazdan Mirzanejad, MD, DTM&H, FRCPC, FACP June 2022
... a global health emergency that kills at least 700 000 people per year. If no action is taken, this rate is ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2022
... generation, an egg’s fundamental biology has not. People with ovaries have their maximum number of eggs by 20 ...
Editorials / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) December 2022
... Navy captain James Cook was greeted by the Nuu-chah-nulth people in the place currently known as Nootka Sound, setting ... justice. The notion that past harms against Indigenous people should be atoned for reflects an intrinsically ...
Editorials / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD October 2022
... formula supply as well, given our close proximity and many people crossing the border to look for formula. The lack of ...
Letters / BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP April 2022
... dutifully arrived at 7:15 a.m. and lined up with 20 other people to wait for the 8 a.m. opening, only to be told at 8 ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2022
A loose definition of a family is a group of people going through the world together. Family isn’t always blood. It can simply be the people in your life who support and care for you. I wrote an ...
Letters / BY: Joanne Sinai, MD, MEd, FRCPC April 2022
... charged under this bill and may be dissuaded from treating people with gender dysphoria at all. We are in a unique ... “Endocrine treatment of transgender and gender-diverse people,” and “Gender-affirming surgical care in British ...