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Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... to understand human health by investigating not what made people sick, but what made them thrive. Starting with 724 ...
Blog / BY: Jennie McCaffrey
A BC Parks Foundation Initiative With people increasingly glued to phones and computers, a walk in ... promoting the health and stewardship benefits of getting people outside and unplugged.   The Canadian Association of ...
Blog / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC
... stories with my young children, a favorite was the book People to Know . One evening the chapter we read was “Buildings that Serve People,” about I.M. Pei. The next day my youngest daughter ...
Blog / BY: Sharadh Sampath, MD, FRCSC
... we’re still accepting of discrimination against people who suffer from obesity.   If we’re honest with ... gluttony, or weakness. We can make jokes about fat people and rarely get called on it. We talk about how ... an excellent way to undermine the struggles that these people are going through. The truth is, obesity is a medical ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... Dr Large was the only observer to document the Heiltsuk people and their principal village, which has been a cultural ... and that aging is not a disease. He worked to keep elderly people in the community with the assistance of supporting ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... as well as cardiopulmonary resuscitation has enabled people who had passed the traditional “there is no pulse, ... of his near-death experience is consistent with other people’s reports of the existence of a wonderful, warm, ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... educational and health care programs for LGBTQIA2S+ people was sparked after reading The New Life by Tom Crewe, a ... passports, and passing legislation to protect transgender people from discrimination. Yet public school education and ... exposing students to the lives of a diverse range of people, and normalizing diverse human experiences.  A 2021 ...
Blog / BY: Vidhi Thakkar, PhD
... platforms develop, the ability to connect the right people and put the patient first along their journey from ... is the need to embed shared decision making between key people in our health care system, which includes patients, ... BC. Technology is only a tool to help connect to the right people on the care team. Professionals on the front line are ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... and offer solutions to negative subjective experiences for people experiencing social isolation. Then we could discard ...
Blog / BY: Sandy Zhang, MPH
... of cancer death in Canada and worldwide. In BC, seven people die of lung cancer every day. With 70% of all cases ... and who are not experiencing any symptoms. This includes people who: Are 55 to 74 years of age.  Currently smoke or ...