Letters /
BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC
June 2019
... translucent red. Your body is 3% blood but a cancer over 1 millimetre or so develops a strange leaky vasculature that ...
Letters /
BY: Ali Silver, BSc
June 2019
... increasingly valuable in almost all fields of medicine.[ 1 ] This tool is being integrated into preclinical training, ... patient outcomes and decreasing costs to the system.[ 1 ] If students are not receiving the hands-on teaching they ...
Editorials /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
June 2019
... on health by getting active is an uphill battle. As of 1 April 2019, new ICBC regulations have come in to effect for ...
Editorials /
BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD
June 2019
... Internal Medicine by Naykky Singh Ospina and colleagues,[ 1 ] on average, physicians give patients 11 seconds to ...
Premise /
BY: Andre C. Piver, MD, FCFP
June 2019
... trained in family medicine, I learned that patients bring 1 in 40 symptoms to their family physician’s attention and ... parameters and overall better clinical outcomes.”[ 1 ] Fundamental research into human communication long ago ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM
June 2019
... strain viruses that replicate in the human host. About 1% to 10% of vaccine recipients may experience a measles-like ... rash and/or fever of more than 39 °C, and less than 1% may experience cough and/or conjunctivitis. If a patient ... had measles or been vaccinated”), they can be offered 1 dose of MMR vaccine. There is no need for a provider to ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Michelle Tan, MD, CCFP, MBA
June 2019
... You can also call the new WorkSafeBC physician hotline (1 855 476-3049), which is available to external prescribers ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Ilona Hale, MD, FCFPC
June 2019
... exercise rarely results in sustainable weight reduction.[ 1 ] As physicians, our biases can negatively influence the ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Alana Godin
June 2019
... The GPSC offers family doctors eight incentives ( Table 1 ) that enable them to delegate certain tasks to team ...
College Library /
BY: Paula Osachoff
June 2019
... on your behalf. Most articles can be sent to you in 1 working day from when you place an order. College ...