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WorkSafeBC / BY: Harry Karlinsky, MD, FRCPC January/February 2021
... to a virtual format. For more information, call 1 855 476-3049 or email clinicalservicesevents@worksafebc.com ...
Council on Health Promotion, COVID-19 / BY: Johanna Trimble January/February 2021
... my mom, caring for her emotional needs in her room.”[ 1 ] Care workers must now do the care formerly done by ... a stranger was allowed to come and do those services.”[ 1 ] Family members feel tormented by guilt and shame for ... wrong to be there, but can’t remember what.”[ 1 ] Seeing nobody they recognize, residents start to lose ...
MDs To Be / BY: Maya de Vos, BSc January/February 2021
... a considerable threat to human health on a global scale.[ 1 ] The medical community has an obligation to advocate for ... 234 L per year in 2019 from 583 L per year in 2013 [ Table 1 ]. This was associated with a 3% increase in sevoflurane ...
Premise / BY: John Liu, MD January/February 2021
... however, should be examined more carefully. Barrier 1: Ophthalmology is “low yield” in medical school To ... is expected to increase by 29% over the next decade.[ 1 ] In fact, more Canadians have age-related macular ... Alzheimer disease, and Parkinson disease combined.[ 1 ] It would, therefore, be prudent to train physicians who ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sean Duke, MSc, MD March 2021
... commonly prescribed medications for children globally,[ 1 , 2 ] with common indications for the ambulatory, ... childhood maculopapular or urticarial eruptions [ Figure 1 ].[ 2 ] A Swiss study involving 88 children with ... upset, may be misattributed to drug allergy [ Table 1 ].[ 11 ] Despite the unverified status of most beta-lactam ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Luke Witherspoon, MD, MSc March 2021
Men have been having vasectomies for more than 200 years.[ 1 ] Every year, approximately 6% of men (500 000) in the ... mucosal-muscularis junction of the vas deferens [ Figure 1 ].[ 17 ] This allows for mapping of planned suture ... infertility concerns, pregnancy within approximately 1.0 to 1.5 years.[ 5 , 29 ] Pregnancy success rates can range ...
Letters, COVID-19 / BY: Vielka Fernandez March 2021
... be principle-based, forward-looking, and compassionate.[ 1 ] As medical students in the Dominican Republic, we have ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Olivia Sampson, MD, CCFP, MPH, FRCPC, ABPM March 2021
... onset and the multifactorial nature of these diseases.[ 1 ] Occupational diseases can be caused or exacerbated by ... your patients’ symptoms. Some useful questions include:[ 1 ] What kind of work do you do? How do you do your work? Are ... A more detailed occupational history should include:[ 1 ] Documenting your patients’ past and present employment ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ronald A. Remick, MD, FRCPC March 2021
... the outcome in close to 40 chronic medical disorders.[ 1 ] This has led to a recommendation by the Canadian Medical ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-kwe), JD, LLM, SJD March 2021
... and are “bad parents,” to name a few (see Finding 1 of the full report, p. 36). These widespread stereotypes ... against medical advice in the years 2015 to 2018.[ 1 ] It must be noted that interpersonal racism is only one ... was 88.5% higher than that of non-Indigenous people.[ 1 ] The review also examined avoidable hospitalizations for ...