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Clinical Articles / BY: Erin E. Michalak, PhD October 2002
... decisions (see  Anderson and colleagues   in this issue). Although there is evidence for the efficacy of ... improved outcomes in patients with MDD. Further benefits may include better use of fiscal resources, optimal use of ... or in a mental health clinic) 377 198‡ 82%|| * BC Stats, 2001. † Health Information Access Centre, 2001. Note that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul C. Adams, MD March 2002
... ). As described in  Dr Samuel Krikler's article  in this issue of the  BCMJ , a screening study of 1905 adult men ... of iron overload or deficiency and focus on those that may require phlebotomy therapy. However, it also detects a ... Life and Health Insurance Association Annual Meeting 2001) about insurance ratings based on hemochromatosis ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Murray Allen, MD June 2002
The work of Dr Charles Galasko and colleagues  in this issue of the BCMJ outlines some of the claims rates in ... these provisos, there are some general statistics that may be of interest. The whiplash rate in various Western ... Columbia, oral and written communications, June and July 2001.) In BC, the whiplash claims rate is currently about 900 ...
Letters / BY: Philip M. Alderman, MD March 2002
... “Male contraception and no-scalpel vasectomy” ( BCMJ 2001;43(10):560 ). Dr Rich is concerned about truancy rates, ... who do not return for semen analysis, and whose failures may therefore remain unreported. He affirms that such rates ... and rates. [1]   But this is largely a non-issue as, in my experience, truants whose vasectomies fail ...
Letters / BY: J.L. Cochlin, MD June 2001
... in the BCMA Journal [ Please fix walk-in problem.  BCMJ 2001;43(2): 71], I had a discussion with a patient during the ... also written the head of the section regarding this same issue. Regular readers may also recall a letter written by Dr Ian Cappon outlining a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP October 2001
... prominent. Once menses cease, symptoms stabilize, but may be quite disabling for 30% of menopausal women ( Table 1 ... will appear in Dr Timothy Rowe’s article in the November 2001 issue of the  BCMJ ). All estrogens are equally effective ...
Letters / BY: C.J. Sedergreen, MBBS September 2001
... member of the Board of Directors of the Laurel Foundation, may I express my appreciation of the June 2001 issue of the BCMA  Journal  dedicated to autism ...
College Library / BY: Jim Henderson October 2001
... As time becomes more precious, reading and staying current may suffer. For GPs and family physicians reduced to reading ... research paper they review. Titles from the July/August 2001 issue include “Rate and rhythm control showed similar ...
Clinical Articles September 2001
... residents being trained in British Columbia to address the issue. Cardiologists fear these factors are currently ... retention, and earlier or later retirement that may occur due to political or economic changes. Population ... non-visa cardiology residents per year (starting in the 2001–2002 academic year) for the next 20 years to reach an ...
Letters / BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD June 2001
... medical direction in the regional hospital boards ( BCMJ 2001;43(2):60  and 65). From a doctrinaire political ... fields closest to the farm receive the most manure.” May I be permitted to mention a personal experience whilst ... full hospital rate for use of the operating room. When the issue came before the board, the matter was resolved when I ...