Premise /
BY: Andre C. Piver, MD, FCFP
June 2019
... relationship with the patient is supported by several medical studies that show that these skills can lead to ... but critical to being present with our patients. The article “Attention is not a resource but a way of being ... and personal connection makes a difference. A relevant article of value is “Learning narrative-based medicine ...
Letters /
BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC
July/August 2019
... titling a letter to the editor in response to a published article: “Re: the title of the original article.” That is certainly appropriate if the letter ... by a Saudi physician sharing his experience just prior to medical training in Canada (“The Saudi resident and ...
Letters /
BY: Reza Afshari, MD, MPH, PhD
July/August 2019
The BC Medical Journal is always informative and appealing, ... including its January/February issue with the interesting article, “The world’s most poisonous mushroom, Amanita ... cap, stem, and volva, which is not correct. As a former medical and, recently, environmental toxicologist who used to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Brandon Yau, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC
July/August 2019
... Health Services, BCCDC —Tom Kosatsky, MD, MPH Medical Director, Environmental Health Services, BCCDC ... or funding that present a conflict of interest for this article. BC Centre for Disease Control Human health ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Farshad Hosseini, BSc
July/August 2019
... retrospectively from the clinical charts and electronic medical records of patients with hemophilia who underwent ... her initial vision for this project and we dedicate this article to her memory. Competing interests Dr Younger is a ... Orthopaedic Care. Regarding the study described in this article, Dr Younger received no fees or institutional support ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Benjamin Ng,
July/August 2019
... by emergency medicine research assistants and trained medical students. In cases with ambiguous findings, ... reviews were completed by a panel consisting of two medical toxicologists and one emergency nurse. Ethics ... as heroin. Acknowledgments The research described in this article was made possible by the generous financial support ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC
September 2019
... 2018, 33 states permitted the use of marijuana for medical purposes and 10 of these had also decriminalized ... and Gynaecology Canada recently published a review article on the subject.[ 18 ] In it, the authors highlight ... member of the BCMJ Editorial Board, but was not when this article was accepted. ABSTRACT: Products of the Cannabis ...
Obituaries /
BY: Norman D. Finlayson, MD
December 2019
On 24 October 2019, the medical profession lost one of its most loyal and dedicated ... one of the few non-physician honorary members of the BC Medical Association (as Doctors of BC was formerly called) ... about Jim’s storied career should read Dr Brad Fritz’s article in the January/February 2017 issue of the BC Medical ...