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Letters / BY: Rod Densmore, MD December 2023
... need to identify, diagnose, and appropriately support people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and their ... families. We need to become FASD aware. When we diagnose people with FASD we can also learn about their family and ... (FASD), and to develop, in collaboration with Aboriginal people, FASD preventive programs that can be delivered in a ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC November 2022
... and personal morals. In contrast, extrinsically motivated people are driven to behave by external sources such as ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD June 2022
... called FI/RE (Financial Independence/Retiring Early) where people look for ways to not have long careers. What many ... . How even when being careful and vaccinated and masked people could die as a result of their short-term choices. The ... that we studiously looked away so as to keep to our path. People and wonderful moments are truly fleeting, and we may ...
Letters / BY: Roger Purnell, MBChB, FRCSC March 2022
... put the number of MRIs done in BC annually at 1 per 21 people, and 1 per 18.5 nationally. Within the central NHA ...
Letters / BY: Vaclav Hyrman, MD, FRCPC December 2022
... have become more prevalent in the industrial age when more people got jobs and developed a “job mentality.” “Job ... be a way around it. Having seen (in psychiatric practice) people suffering from symptoms of burnout regardless of their ...
Editorials / BY: Yazdan Mirzanejad, MD, DTM&H, FRCPC, FACP June 2022
... a global health emergency that kills at least 700 000 people per year. If no action is taken, this rate is ...
Letters / BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP April 2022
... dutifully arrived at 7:15 a.m. and lined up with 20 other people to wait for the 8 a.m. opening, only to be told at 8 ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC December 2022
... many responses about what not to do, as what to do. Many people advised against the impulse to force gratitude upon my ...
Letters / BY: Ruth Habte, MD September 2022
... my own opinion today—an opinion informed by caring for people who found themselves in the working poor and in need ... are taking. My opinion is also informed by taking care of people in abusive relationships, who may be in ... seeing the impact on reproductive health care. All these people, and more, would benefit from universal free ...
Letters / BY: Joanne Sinai, MD, MEd, FRCPC April 2022
... charged under this bill and may be dissuaded from treating people with gender dysphoria at all. We are in a unique ... “Endocrine treatment of transgender and gender-diverse people,” and “Gender-affirming surgical care in British ...