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Clinical Articles / BY: Patricia M. Massel, MD June 2023
... and additive fears . . . are pretty distressing for people.” Recommendations Health care providers need ... provided by the BC SUPPORT (British Columbia Support for People and Patient-Oriented Research and Trials) Unit. This ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nicola Y. Edwards, MHA January/February 2023
... the opioid crisis and provide effective intervention. Many people who die of opioid overdose have recently interacted ... an opportunity for intervention. In one analysis, 77% of people had contact with the health care system in the year ... ( P = .0006). Discussion Our results indicate that people who present with an opioid overdose have frequently ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elisabeth Baerg Hall, MD, CCFP, FRCPC November 2023
... referral is recommended. The prevalence of ADHD in people with bipolar disorder can be more than 20%.[ 21 ] ... uncomplicated ADHD in their adult patients.[ 29 ] Summary People with ADHD have unique strengths, such as increased ...
MDs To Be / BY: Samantha Gibbon, BSc April 2023
... with a supplement to the care they provide to Indigenous people in British Columbia. As I near the end of my training ... to address the specific health needs of Indigenous people affected by the MMIWG tragedies.[ 1 , 2 ] It is ... queer, trans, Two Spirit, and gender-nonconforming people are affected as well. The health outcomes of ...
MDs To Be / BY: Larissa Steidle, MD November 2023
... though less egregious, situations, where the care of people assigned female at birth is compromised. Experiences ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Amritpal Maniani, BSc April 2023
... fentanyl, we wanted carfentanil.” (Participant 6) “People are shocked when I say this. I’ve lost count of the ... risks of overdose. This qualitative study suggests that people who use illicit opioid drugs rely on their support ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Vivian W.L. Tsang, MD, MGC April 2023
... increase.[ 3 , 4 ] Between January and December 2021, 7560 people died from opioid-related toxicity in Canada.[ 5 ] Gaps ... care affect youth Mental health concerns affect young people disproportionally. In BC, one in four young people live with a mental health or substance use disorder ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2023
... settler on the territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking people in Victoria, where I’ve spent the last year, and ... if not a lifetime.” There are lots of predictors of why people do rural medicine; for me, it was a combination of ... generalism but also a ton to do with being connected to people, which I’ve always really enjoyed. Is there a story ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Aaron Ooi, MBChB, DipPaed, PGDipClinEd, FRACP October 2023
... advance, including environmental factors (e.g., specific people, activities, setting, time of day, specific ... following specific instructions/demands, with specific people, time of day)? Internal factors that might be related ...
Clinical 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 ...