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President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP January/February 2019
... species at risk.  The signs are clear: long wait lists;[ 1 ] offices that move or close;[ 2 ] retiring doctors who ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Brian E. Ng, MD, MPH, CCFP January/February 2019
Asthma affects about 7.5% of the adult population.[ 1 , 2 ] Work-related asthma, one of the most common ... and accounts for 5% to 20% of new adult-onset asthma.[ 1 , 3-5 ] Occupational asthma can be due to sensitization to ... associated with asthma, the majority being sensitizers.[ 1 , 2 , 4 ] Common sensitizers seen in BC include plicatic ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2019
... 626 individuals in 34 studies from various countries.[ 1 ] The introduction is particularly meaningful:  “The way ... the experience of individuals living with a condition.”[ 1 ] The study found three major themes. First, people with ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi January/February 2019
... (“ Building interprofessional maternity care in BC ”)[ 1 ] describes how the Shared Care Maternity Network, now ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
... that there are serious penalties for selling to minors.[ 1 ] The rate of violent crime has decreased by 10%,[ 2 ] and ... in the surveyed period (February to April 2018) ( Figure 1 ).[ 11 ] Approximately 8% of all users used some form of ... Social: moderately experienced, use mostly on weekends (1 to 2 times per week), more likely to experience short-term ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Maxwell Moor-Smith, BSc January/February 2019
... A. phalloides is sufficient to cause death in an adult.[ 1-3 ] The death cap was first introduced to British Columbia ... BC is appropriate habitat for A. phalloides [ 5 ] ( Figure 1 ).  Mushroom foragers and health care providers should be ... effect, and the most toxic for humans is α-amanitin.[ 1 , 2 , 8 ] Like all the major amanitins (α, β, γ), ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark A. Lau, PhD, R.Psych January/February 2019
... Data from the Canadian Community Health Survey[ 1 ] revealed a 1-year prevalence of 5.4% for mood disorders and a lifetime ... and social relationships.[ 18 ] Item scoring ranges from 1 (very poor) to 5 (very good) and reflects the degree of ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Judy Dercksen, MD January/February 2019
... pain can enhance chronic pain management for many people.[ 1 ] Past president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, ... to 90% of patients have some form of digital access,[ 1 ] they can access free pain websites such as those from ...
News March 2019
... planning included under G14066. This change is effective 1 January 2019. Clarifying documentation To reflect a recent ... fee billing include the required documentation as of 1 December 2018. For details on all of these changes, ...
News March 2019
... trimester (7.4%) and lowest during the third trimester (1.8%). Most pregnant users reported using cannabis to treat ...