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Letters /
BY: Ruth Habte, MD
September 2022
... my own opinion today—an opinion informed by caring for people who found themselves in the working poor and in need ... are taking. My opinion is also informed by taking care of people in abusive relationships, who may be in ... seeing the impact on reproductive health care. All these people, and more, would benefit from universal free ...
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 ...
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BY: Gail Knudson, MD, MEd, FRCPC
September 2022
... the provision of medical care to trans and gender-diverse people is controversial in some quarters, but it is the ... competent health care to transgender and gender-diverse people. Dr Leising[ 1 ] has written a detailed response[ 7 ] ...
Letters /
BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC
January/February 2022
... are now being collected on the hundreds of millions of people who are vaccinated, saying it is safe. When one ... clinical trials as there is no self-serving demand for people to publish in order to get tenure. A nice way to think ...
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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 ...
Letters /
BY: Rob Lehman, MD, CCFP, MClSc, FCFP(LM)
June 2022
... write prescriptions, look at sore throats, and refer people to specialists. Who would choose this as a career? ...
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BY: Vaclav Hyrman, MD, FRCPC
December 2022
... have become more prevalent in the industrial age when more people got jobs and developed a “job mentality.” “Job ... be a way around it. Having seen (in psychiatric practice) people suffering from symptoms of burnout regardless of their ...
Letters /
BY: Roger Purnell, MBChB, FRCSC
March 2022
... put the number of MRIs done in BC annually at 1 per 21 people, and 1 per 18.5 nationally. Within the central NHA ...
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BY: Hilary Spicer
March 2022
... for guitars began at age 16, when he, like many young people, strummed a guitar to Eric Clapton and the Beatles. He ...
Letters /
BY: Susan M. Lee, MD, FRCPC, MAS
January/February 2021
... 3 ] with depression and anxiety rates similar to those in people with cancer; and feelings of regret, sadness, and ...