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Premise / BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP May 2017
... in our work and we become somewhat inured to its effect on people who do not see it as often as we do. People are afraid of death. Our youth-obsessed society lives ... ] In supporting patients as they learn about the ways that people die and encouraging them to address the cycle of life, ...
Premise / BY: Paul Winston, MD, FRCPC September 2017
... combination with sedatives, sleeping pills, and marijuana? People with chronic pain typically do not receive validation ... and continues with endless prescription renewals. We give people with acute soft tissue traumas such as whiplash ... that future research should focus on the factors that make people disabled after back injury. Chou and Shekelle[ 4 ] ...
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 ...
Premise / BY: A.W. Battison, MD June 2016
... higher level of care. Cape Town is a city of 3.75 million people located near the southernmost point of South Africa ... area promptly. Tragic cases of untreated AIDS in young people are a daily occurrence. As well, we were in disbelief ...
Premise / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2016
... or withdrawing life-sustaining therapy[ 1,2 ] suggest people may be confused about their right to make ... a response to patient experiences of poor quality dying. People were dying in hospital surrounded by machines that ... palliative care is involved in dying, its aim is to help people live as well as is possible until their natural death. ...
Premise / BY: Siavash Jafari, MD, MHSc, FRCPC March 2014
... death in Ontario in 2004 was estimated at 27.2 per million people, which is more than 3 times that of HIV (9 per ...
Premise / BY: W.D. Robertson, MB, BChir, FRCPC July/August 2014
... preventive care and therapeutic work is designed to enable people to live fulfilling lives for longer. This practice ... in Canadian hospitals, this one was about 50% occupied by people awaiting placement in long-term care facilities. The prospect of becoming one of those people horrified her. As she put it, “that is not living, ...
Premise / BY: Margaret Reveley, November 2014
... their patients? What are the hidden dangers in untrained people like me even knowing what a uvulopalatopharyngoplasty ... When we start to see doctors’ waiting rooms filled with people holding computer printouts in their hands then we may ...
Premise / BY: Martin Dawes, MBBS, MD, FRCGP, December 2014
... is equivalent to 30% of the available drugs on the market. People go to their family doctor with an average of four symptoms, and people with multiple diseases are now the norm.[ 12 ] Given ...
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, ...