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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Jennifer Balfour, MD, FRCPC September 2022
... not have optimal vaccine health. Additionally, Indigenous people, including First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, are at an ... medical care and restore the trust of Indigenous people in the medical system using culturally safe resources ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: A. Maria Chung, MDCM January/February 2022
... Europe and elsewhere, Canada has seen continuous waves of people from different lands and cultures. As of 2011, Canada had a foreign-born population of about 6 775 800 people, representing 20.6% of the population, the highest ... groups surpassing the 1 million mark. Seven out of 10 people lived in Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver.[ 1 ] In BC, ...
Obituaries / BY: Lorne David Porayko, MD, FRCPC, CIM December 2022
... and this, along with his stocky build, often intimidated people. His gruff facade belied a gentle, generous heart and ...
Obituaries / BY: Dan Kalla October 2022
... sets: Frank was trained as a surgeon, while Judy was a people person whose patients adored her, and vice versa. She ...
Physician Spotlight / 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 ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ilona Hale, MD, FCFPC June 2021
... helps us shift the deeply held societal belief that people with obesity simply lack willpower and just need to ... with the intent to improve overall quality of life for people living with obesity. —Ilona Hale, MD —Priya ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) November 2021
... Addressing vaping and other types of nicotine use in young people. Applying an equity lens of environmental health and ...
Proust for Physicians June 2021
... at my home in Nicaragua. Surrounded by animals and the people I love. Staring out over the ocean, trees, birds, and ...
Obituaries / BY: Vera Frinton, MD December 2021
... Marjorie and Bruce; sons, Elliot and Colin; Joan; the people of Hornby Island; as well as his many friends, will ... was described as a missionary without a religion, and the people of many BC and Northern communities benefited from his ...
Obituaries July/August 2021
... a profound effect on me and my family, as she had on many people’s lives. I met Paddy in the early 1990s when we ... for working with the addicted population applied to people in all circumstances. She truly believed in her work ... of procuring plants for her garden. Everywhere we went people knew who she was and of her magnificent gardens. It ...