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Premise, COVID-19 / BY: Brandon Tang, MD, MSc September 2021
... impact of COVID-19 on postgraduate medical education.[ 3 , 4 ] Resident Doctors of BC (RDBC) is a professional ... for multiple departments, rotating between services in 4-week cycles. Although residents have multiple clinical ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Anne Pousette, MD, MPH September 2021
... the strongest predictors of severe disease from COVID-19.[ 4 ] This highlights the important role physical activity ...
Clinical Articles / BY: L.S. Yefet, MD October 2021
... and the rate of use may be as high as 1 in 15.[ 3 , 4 ] For example, persistent opioid use following lumbar ... was codeine, with median daily MME of 34 and median of 4 days supplied. In patients between the ages of 80 and 89 ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD October 2021
... funds, Doctors of BC’s PHP was allocated $1 million over 4 years to identify gaps in existing wellness services, to ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Derek C. Chang, MD October 2021
... schools do not teach disaster medicine to learners.[ 4 ] To address this gap in medical training, there exist many ...
MDs To Be / BY: Tristan Jeffery, BSc October 2021
... influenced their interpretation of Two-Eyed Seeing.[ 3 , 4 ] For example, one team defined the research group’s ... people, and that traditional culture is key to healing.[ 4 ] The concept of the four Rs was discussed as a guiding ... between people through ceremony and community activities.[ 4 , 7 , 10 ] Other authors described the use of an ethical ...
Editorials / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP November 2021
... collateral harms during the opioid crisis.[ 3 , 4 ] We have been made painfully aware in our daily work that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Philippa Hawley, FRCPC November 2021
... integrally linked to provision of good pain management.[ 4 ] Cancer pain is not a single entity. The choices of ... Most Step 2 opioids have a short half-life and require 4- or 6-hourly dosing. Converting from a Step 2 opioid ... doses without having used a Step 2 opioid beforehand. Step 4 includes palliative procedures such as nerve blocks, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP November 2021
... in long-term care to administer short-acting opioids every 4 hours due to high patient-to-nurse ratios. Starting with a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jefferson Terry, MD PhD, FRCPC November 2021
... and is a rare cause of intrauterine fetal demise (IUFD);[ 4 ] as such, it is frequently encountered in perinatal ... of the amniotic cavity by microbes, especially bacteria.[ 4 ] Microbes in the amniotic fluid can be inhaled and ... cohort, which had a mean maternal inflammatory stage of 2.4/3.0 and grade of 1.2/2.0. The mean fetal inflammatory ...