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Letters / BY: Rick Potter-Cogan, MB BCh BAO April 2023
... good evidence for adding vitamins or supplements to most people’s diet [ BCMJ 2023;65:4 ]. People are misled to believe there is a benefit and fall ... scam that wastes the precious income of too many people. People would be healthier with a better ...
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 ...
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 ...
Shared Care Committee / BY: Jiwei Li, MD March 2022
Good news: people are healthier and living longer. However, if a ... As our elderly population increases, so does the number of people living with frailty. It is projected that well over 2 ...
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 ...