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Beyond Medicine / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD December 2012
... 18th century, the society promoted the rescue of drowning people, and paid 4 guineas (about $160 today) to anyone who ... or smoldered as “bum cigars.” American First Nations people used tobacco as a medicine and pioneered the use of ...
Back Page April 2011
...     4   Skin opening     5   One of the people who discovered the structure of DNA     6 ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, June 2011
... tumorigenesis, and viral replication.[ 4 ] Since people with HIV/AIDS are known to have elevated levels of ... stimulated the growth of “buyers’ clubs,” groups of people with HIV/AIDS, particularly in New York and ...
Back Page / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD March 2010
... skull.  Trephination (trepanning) was known by the native people of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and was used extensively ... Burr holes have been found in the skulls of First Nations people.  Bob Hayes, a high school teacher, gave a talk ...
Back Page / BY: Maggie Watt, MD, CCFP, September 2009
... do. It’s easy to forget what a critical role we play in people’s lives and in their memories; it’s easy to forget ...
Back Page / BY: Graham C. Fraser, FRCS, FACS October 2009
... children, the smaller citizens of our society. Several people, upon hearing this, have said, “Oh dear, how awful. ... children are truthful, direct, and reliable historians and people, as well as seldom obese! They are trusting and ... incredible advances in diagnosis and treatment technology. People get better because of us and, on occasion, in spite of ...
Back Page / BY: Graham C. Fraser, FRCS, FACS December 2009
... fussy or irritable.” But that would be wrong. For these people are, or were, highly intelligent business and professional people who functioned at a very high level. The onset of ... Although only a friend or acquaintance to these people, I have found these experiences profoundly disturbing, ...
Back Page / BY: Conrad Moralis, MD, May 2008
... in Vancouver, at times approach­ing sleeping homeless people, leaving a cup by their side and walking away.  When ... husband wanted to call him Jesus, but the Vital Statistics people told us that Jesus was not a proper name for a child ...
Back Page / BY: Graham C. Fraser, FRCS, FACS July/August 2008
... The vast examination hall resembled a railway station with people scattered about, some in groups and others in twos and ...
Back Page / BY: William A. Falk, MD, FCFPC, FRCGP September 2008
... the money. The biggest untapped source of money? We, the people. We often see references to the need for people to take more responsibility for their own health care. ... in order to pay doctor and hospital bills. In fact, most people do not generate large medical bills in any one year, ...