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Clinical Articles / BY: Santabhanu Chakrabarti, MD, FRCPC, FCCS December 2021
... these patients are currently living with such a device.[ 2 ] Every year, approximately 30 000 Canadians receive a ... temporarily reprogrammed with unique CIED magnets [ Figure 2 ], which are available in emergency departments, pacemaker ...
Obituaries / BY: John W. Perry, MD, and family December 2021
... and sustained her for the rest of her life. Over the last 2 years Kathleen suffered with the many side effects of ...
Letters / BY: Thomas M. D’Arcy, LRCP&SI, FRCPC December 2021
... in the mind’s eye, somewhat as if one was seeing them.[ 2 ] My experience with aphantasia began with a report by the ...
Letters / BY: Anne Pousette, MD, MPH December 2021
... Active People, Active Places,[ 1 ] and the 2020 update[ 2 ] documents provide a framework for collective action by ...
Letters / BY: Renee Fernandez, MD, CCFP December 2021
... in the Doctors of BC Fee Guide for Uninsured Services[ 2 ] to enable private billing for preventive medicine ...
Letters / BY: Paul J. Oxley, MD, FRCSC December 2021
... for surgery at this centre are clearly defined (ASA 1 or 2 and no history of significant sleep apnea or adverse ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD December 2021
... know at the time, but do now, is that SARS‑CoV‑2 will be with us for a long time. The worry of how the ... while 18.9% reported anxiety symptoms in the last year.[ 2 ] In the US, there has been a significant increase in ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Michael R. Lyon, MD, ABOM December 2021
Like type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes has long been considered a progressive, incurable ... disease and neuropathy.[ 1 ] The assumption that type 2 diabetes is irreversible is supported by the strong ... impact on morbidity and mortality for those with type 2 diabetes is rather grim and in excess of many cancers. The ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM December 2021
... canceling appointments for fear of contracting SARS-CoV-2. As many routine services were canceled or deferred and ... doses, and less effect on the infant series beginning at 2 months of age. Regions most affected by COVID-19, including ...
Joint Collaborative Committees / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC December 2021
... steady use by clinically courageous physicians[ 2 ] in low-resource settings across 91 communities. ...