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Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Jocelyn Y. Wong October 2022
... generating feelings of hesitancy among pregnant people and people who plan to conceive. Recently, vaccine clinical ... A Canada-wide study, CANCOVID-Preg, reported that pregnant people with COVID-19 infection have a stillbirth rate of ...
President's Comment / BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD December 2022
... does now. It is in times of uncertainty and scarcity that people look to us for guidance and reassurance, and I do ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2022
... grew up with. There was a great sense of community, great people. We have always had lovely neighbors. Where’s your ... Ladner Pioneer Library; I used to take out more books than people would think I could read, but medicine was my biggest ... life into the world, delivering babies, and then have people take their last breath with you in a palliative ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD July/August 2021
... is learning that, in spite of these uncertain times, people want very similar things in life. It doesn’t matter ... in a similar way. I’ve come across a lot of different people in my life. Young people. Older people. Disadvantaged people. Privileged ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2021
... around for CARMS interviews, so I had to explain that to people. But I think people could see I was genuinely interested in it, so it ... of a problem before it starts. In general psych I’d see people with substance use, psychosis, really intractable ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD September 2021
... What you want. We need to consider, ask, and learn how people want to be treated. In the same way that I cannot tell ... to describe as it can mean different things to different people, cultures, and generations. I describe it as a pattern of certain behaviors: honorable people keep their word, maintain confidences, tell the truth, ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD March 2021
... there is another reason why listening is so important. People do not want to follow people who don’t listen. It’s a fundamental human need to ... minutes per day to scan through the viewpoints of credible people, then I could get on with my life. I did have a good ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD October 2021
... of BC doctors has actually grown during the pandemic. People have joined us from different provinces and different ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-kwe), JD, LLM, SJD March 2021
... governance structure to advance inclusion of First Nations people in health care design and decision making.[ * ] ... p. 8). The problem Racism is the belief that a group of people are inferior based on the color of their skin or their ... nonattachment was 88.5% higher than that of non-Indigenous people.[ 1 ] The review also examined avoidable ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD November 2021
... It is an eclectic bunch: colleagues on the front lines, people working in public health, politicians, government ... But why am I doing this? The reasons are multiple. I see people doing good work and I want to encourage them to keep doing it. I see people making tough calls and I want to acknowledge their ...