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Letters / BY: Rod Densmore, MD December 2023
... need to identify, diagnose, and appropriately support people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and their ... families. We need to become FASD aware. When we diagnose people with FASD we can also learn about their family and ... (FASD), and to develop, in collaboration with Aboriginal people, FASD preventive programs that can be delivered in a ...
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 ...
Letters / BY: Michelle Hawkins, BSc (Hons) September 2023
... Letters “Health” requires more than health care for people in supportive housing ...
Letters / BY: Darren Jakubec, MD June 2023
... the existing system. I truly believe it would benefit more people, regardless of income. —Darren Jakubec, MD Smithers ...
Letters / 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 ...
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: 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 ...
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 ...
Letters / 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 ] ...