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Premise / BY: A.W. Battison, MD June 2016
... higher level of care. Cape Town is a city of 3.75 million people located near the southernmost point of South Africa ... area promptly. Tragic cases of untreated AIDS in young people are a daily occurrence. As well, we were in disbelief ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC December 2016
... and influenza experts continue to recommend that people get vaccinated against influenza if they are at higher ...
Premise / BY: Siavash Jafari, MD, MHSc, FRCPC March 2014
... death in Ontario in 2004 was estimated at 27.2 per million people, which is more than 3 times that of HIV (9 per ...
Premise / BY: W.D. Robertson, MB, BChir, FRCPC July/August 2014
... preventive care and therapeutic work is designed to enable people to live fulfilling lives for longer. This practice ... in Canadian hospitals, this one was about 50% occupied by people awaiting placement in long-term care facilities. The prospect of becoming one of those people horrified her. As she put it, “that is not living, ...
Premise / BY: Margaret Reveley, November 2014
... their patients? What are the hidden dangers in untrained people like me even knowing what a uvulopalatopharyngoplasty ... When we start to see doctors’ waiting rooms filled with people holding computer printouts in their hands then we may ...
Premise / BY: Martin Dawes, MBBS, MD, FRCGP, December 2014
... is equivalent to 30% of the available drugs on the market. People go to their family doctor with an average of four symptoms, and people with multiple diseases are now the norm.[ 12 ] Given ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) June 2012
... care” can all mean different things to different people.  All of the foregoing labels can be used to describe ... we live in a libertarian society where, within limits, people have the freedom to make choices other than the most ... who will note that the Samueli Institute is headed by people trained in “mind/body methods, spiritual healing, ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Hal D. Gunn, MD, June 2012
... reduce the risk of recurrence and improve survival of people with cancer (and thus, substantially reduce overall ... since high distress levels are common among people living with cancer. In a recent study of over 3000 ...
Premise / BY: Jamie Graham, January/February 2011
... This may seem obvious, but believe it or not there are people involved in this process who actually attempt to ... in terms of their overall personal responsibility to keep people safe. Another difficulty is when a blood warrant is ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Paul K.B. Dagg, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2010
... that we encounter on a regular basis in transporting people with psychiatric illness within the province of BC ... care in our PICU, adult, and geriatric programs for people from throughout the northern and southern interiors of ... of our providing tertiary services we provide care for people who cannot be cared for in general hospitals in their ...