Premise, COVID-19 /
BY: Nickie Mathew, MD, MSc, ABPN, FRCPC, ABPM
January/February 2021
... fronted. For opioids, he sold 0.1 g (1 point) for $20, 0.4 g (a quarter) for $50, 1 g for $90, 1.75 g (a half ball) ... sold crystal meth at $10 for 0.1 g (a point), $30 for 0.4 g (a quarter), $60 for 1 g, $100 for 1.75 g (a half ball), ... be treated concurrently in line with best evidence.[ 4 ] The need for withdrawal management John Doe recounted the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Daniel Esau, BAppSc, MHSc, MD
January/February 2021
... with aging or pathologically with immune suppression.[ 2 , 4 ], Although uncommon, the involvement of cranial motor ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 /
BY: Tonia Tauh, MD, FRCPC
March 2021
... 21 days (Pfizer-BioNTech)[ 2 , 3 ] or 28 days (Moderna)[ 4 ] apart. Upon administration of the first dose of the ... severe COVID-19 symptoms, typically by 7 days, with 52.4% efficacy between 7 to 14 days and 89% between days 15 to ... days after the first dose (80.2% overall after dose 1).[ 4 , 5 ] No clinical trials have been able to judge how long ...
Letters /
BY: Susan M. Lee, MD, FRCPC, MAS
January/February 2021
... shame over career decisions made while family planning.[ 4 ] I am a physician in BC and have undergone multiple ...
News
January/February 2021
... respiratory health and well-being, prostate cancer, 4+2 diabetes reversal, plan to move your kids, and parenting ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
January/February 2021
... When we look at things on a short-term basis—say a 4-year cycle—we inevitably succumb to fads like cutting ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 /
BY: Jason Wong, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC
January/February 2021
... accrue over time, particularly for younger populations.[ 4 ] People who use drugs are a subpopulation acutely affected ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Maya de Vos, BSc
January/February 2021
... and expressed as the carbon dioxide equivalent (CDE).[ 4 ] In 2014, the American Society of Anesthesiologists ... that judicious use of desflurane in anesthetic practice[ 4 , 5 ] and encouraging the use of low-flow anesthetic ...
Premise /
BY: John Liu, MD
January/February 2021
... retinopathy and other ocular pathology fairly well.[ 4 , 5 ] Moreover, training family physicians to be ... to diagnose and monitor diabetic retinopathy fairly well.[ 4 ] To help with this, a panoptic ophthalmoscope can be used, ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Sean Duke, MSc, MD
March 2021
... distribution throughout the body, and low cost.[ 3 , 4 ] Acute otitis media, the most common cause of childhood ... negative skin testing and drug challenge within the past 4 years.[ 34 ] In following up with 88 families with children ...