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Point Counterpoint / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2017
... prolonged dying with poor symptom control has made people even more fearful of the dying process. And society ... which the MAID is provided, because it is well known that people’s desire for hastened death can change over time[ 1 ... a study at a Seattle Cancer Centre[ 2 ] showed that of 114 people who inquired into the Death with Dignity program, ...
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 ...
Back Page / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD March 2014
... to make me a customized new stent for my aorta. These good people in Ontario made it fast and shipped it west to my doc ...
Back Page / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD June 2014
... Memorial Hospital, I used open drop diethyl ether to put people to sleep. The older docs sometimes used 1, 2, 3—a ... of raw ether and a dozen amyls.”[ 3 ] Thompson urged people to “buy the ticket, take the ride,”[ 3 ] as he ...
Back Page / BY: Janny Ke, September 2014
... to sneak in a kiss. Medicine has brought me into some of people’s most excruciating, profound, and beautiful ...
Back Page / BY: Ralph Jones, MD October 2013
... work (especially hos-pital work) and our affinity for the people and the country kept us here. Now, at age 60, ...
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 ...
Back Page April 2011
...     4   Skin opening     5   One of the people who discovered the structure of DNA     6 ...
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 ...