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Clinical Articles / BY: Courtney Young, MBA, MD, FRCPC December 2017
... was an engineer, mathematician, physicist, statistician, author, professor, and consultant who is perhaps best known ... referral process to improve patient care. A single form (the Vancouver Coastal/Providence Health Care Regional Cardiology Referral Form) (Figure: part 1 , part 2 ) replaces dozens of existing ...
Articles / BY: Derek Plausinis, MASC, MD, FRCSC December 2016
... arthropathy Postcapsulorrhaphy arthropathy is a form of secondary arthritis that can develop after a shoulder ... prolonged period of no walker use (ideally 3 months in the author’s opinion). Patients who cannot comply with ... received a blood transfusion.[ 33 ] However, in the author’s experience, transfusion is quite uncommon and is ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Benjamin Millar, MD, March 2016
... CPD activities.  Social media can be considered a special form of online CPD by introducing additionally novel ... ]  Social media in emergency medicine Dr Mike Cadogan, an author at the popular Australian blog/website Life in the ...
News July/August 2016
... it very likely a person will develop the more devastating form of the neurological disease. The mutation was found in ... disease gradually becomes progressive in most cases. Co-author Dr Anthony Traboulsee, the MS Society of Canada ... the mutation’s disease-causing effects. Senior author Dr Carles Vilarino-Guell, assistant professor of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC October 2015
... clinical evidence of direct trauma to the head in the form of bruises, cephalohematoma, and skull fractures. ... in the October 2015 issue ( BCMJ  2015;57:331-335). The author corrected an error that appeared on pages 331, 332, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Keith M. Laycock, MB, ChB (Edin), MCFP, Dip Sport Med, March 2011
... designated under the neurology section of the assessment form is the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE). However, there are ... of a fitness to drive assessment. The view of this author is that driver assessment should be or­ganized and ... 65 years of age, the visit will initially involve some form of brief memory test (e.g., the TYM), which may be ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stacy L. Elliott, MD, November 2011
... reducing nNO. Ra­di­cal prostatectomy in any form (open, laparoscopic, or robotic) often results in ED ... use of papaverine plus phentolamine (bimix) or the diluted form of prostaglandin E1 (10 µg/mL), or more commonly a ... trends of practice in the ED world. Acknowledgments The author acknowledges her colleagues at the BC Centre for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Peter K.Y. Chan, MD, FRCPC, October 2011
... shown favorable res­ponses, but the lack of a parenteral form for patients refusing oral medications limits their ... in seniors experiencing delirium. Acknowledgments The author wishes to thank Dr Robert Hewko for his review of the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Richard A. Bebb, MD, ABIM, FRCPC November 2011
... While it is a point of some controversy, the author recommends the bio­available testosterone test as the ... (gels or patches), or oral testosterone in the form of testosterone undecanoate. All of these delivery modes ... for prostate cancer in the past.[ 4 , 5 ] It is the author’s opinion that a year or two after successful ...
ICBC / BY: Laura Jensen, MD, March 2010
... well as the interests of the patient being examined.  The form for the driver’s medical examination provides the ... The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the position of the ...