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College Library / BY: Niki Baumann April 2021
... care for patients who have experienced a traumatic event. People who have experienced traumatic events may find the ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Vivian W.L. Tsang, MD, MGC April 2021
... harm-reduction services has significant implications for people who use drugs (PWUD). One of the cornerstones of ... analysis revealed lower rates of THN kit possession among people who use drugs by non-injection routes.[ 22 ] However, ... consumption sites and overdose prevention sites, people with lived experience are acting as first responders, ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS June 2021
... in electronic form. Why not 100%? Several reasons: most people prefer reading physical books[ 1 ] and have deeper ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS September 2020
... arising from personal and systemic bias against Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color is a pressing issue in Canada, but resources ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP March 2020
... Krever inquiry into the blood system after thousands of people received infected blood products in the 1980s.[ 1 , 2 ... makeup of Canada’s population. Potential donors (healthy people between 17 and 35 years of age) can register online by ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Judy Dercksen, MD January/February 2019
... from migraines to plantar fasciitis, and the number of people suffering from pain, currently one in five, is ... on pain can enhance chronic pain management for many people.[ 1 ] Past president of the American Academy of Pain ... diseases.” McGowan estimates that between 3000 and 3500 people participate in the program every year, and that half ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Jacob L. Stubbs, BKin May 2019
... fire and ambulance is that more often than not we know the people’s names, we’ve cared for them day in and day out, ... you? An easy way to look at harm reduction is as meeting people where they’re at. For the person with sleep ... emergency rooms have barriers for some individuals. Many people in this neighborhood cannot go through the triage ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2019
... Shannon the day of her inauguration. Speaking of young people, what are the challenges that medical students and ... later. That route’s a lot more difficult now, and people decide what they want to do early on, by the end of ... tone for the family practice being patient-centred, where people come, they feel welcome, they feel like their needs ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: David Unger, MD December 2018
... themselves are potentially harmful, and that they expose people to risks of addiction—an increasingly fatal disease. ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews July/August 2018
... Spanish. Since moving to Vancouver I try to care for people in their first language, and in return they correct my ... spot, there is a mismatch between the jobs we are training people for and the jobs that are available. That is why I’m ... their work and personal lives and continue to grow as people and healers. They want models of support that allow ...