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Beyond Medicine / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2016
4 June 2016, Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver, BC   Doctors of BC ... like to bring to the Board this year is temperance. This may help us be more efficient with our work.” . . . “To ... is not a productive use of our time and energy. The issue is that our two work models simply clash. Doctors are ...
Premise / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2016
In 2016 physician-assisted death will become legal in Canada. ... withdrawing life-sustaining therapy[ 1,2 ] suggest people may be confused about their right to make life-determining ... The author is currently guest editing a theme issue on palliative care that she hopes to publish in the  ...
Letters / BY: Mike Figurski, MD, CA-CPHIMS December 2016
... monitoring after ambulatory breast cancer surgery [ BCMJ 2016;58(8):448-453 ]. I do not believe reported results ... (3+34/37 vs 11+24/35) is almost significant at .055%. This may be due to overtreatment of possible infection in the app ... references to a commercial product, particularly when the issue includes a full-page paid ad. —Mike Figurski, MD ...
Letters / BY: J.N. Mahy, MD, FRCSC, FACS September 2016
... “Thoughts on professionalism” in the June issue ( BCMJ 2016;58:247), I would like to add comments pertaining to his ... to pay us. Mercenaries, agents of the state, whatever you may want to call us, we are no longer the healers of the ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, March 2008
... practising BCMA members were invited to participate, and 2016 members completed the survey, giving it an impressive ... response rate.   The full results are enclosed in this issue of the BCMJ, and I encourage you to read them. On the ... that affect practising members.  These last two concerns may be ad­dressed with the implementation of the proposed ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... significantly different perspectives.  In the July/August issue of the BCMJ , the importance of “Incorporating ... of community, team work, and inclusion. Such outcomes may be important to populations that face stigma, isolation, ... using compositional analyses. Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 2016;41(6 suppl 3):S294-302. Dumuid D, Olds T, Sawyer SM. ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... of Anatomy: A surgical case study” in the September 2019 issue of Surgery . Dr William Seidelman, UBC graduate, ... the accurate and artistically superior anatomical atlas may save lives and it even honors the memory of the victims, ... science during the Third Reich. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. Hill R. Jack McCreary: Paediatrician, pedagogue, ...
Blog / BY: Shelina Babul, PhD
... department visits in British Columbia for concussions in 2016/2017, 40% of patients were under 19 years of age. It is ... brain injury, and experts suspect this significant health issue is still widely underreported. The BC-specific data do ... for high performance sport in Canada. Accessed 24 May 2019. ...
Blog / BY: Amanda Lavigne, BScPN
... helps raise awareness of the impacts of stigma and may increase motivation to change stigmatizing behaviors and ... Harms related to substance use remain a top public health issue in virtually every jurisdiction across Canada. In ... a public health emergency was declared in the province in 2016, with 49% of deaths occurring during the pandemic.1 In ...
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