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Premise, COVID-19 / BY: Nickie Mathew, MD, MSc, ABPN, FRCPC, ABPM January/February 2021
... save someone’s life. I think it’ll be useful for the medical community.” Written informed consent was obtained. Of note, the term opioids is used in this article to refer to the street-level illicit opioids sold ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Tonia Tauh, MD, FRCPC March 2021
10 March 2021: Updated information relating to this article has been published:  “An updated look at the ... on Vaccines and Immunization, along with the UK Chief Medical Officers have approved a prolonged second dosing ...
Letters / BY: Anthony F. Shearer, MB January/February 2021
... ]. It clearly lays out a problem that has dogged the medical and scientific community for years. I am sure a vast ... published by JAMA ( https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2772749 , login required). I believe that ... speed up exponentially the communication of scientific and medical information as well as give instant feedback and ...
MDs To Be / BY: Maya de Vos, BSc January/February 2021
... threat to human health on a global scale.[ 1 ] The medical community has an obligation to advocate for change ... ethics board review (Tri-Council Policy Statement 2 Article 2.5). Environmental and sustainability offices in ... their assistance in acquiring the data included in this article. ABSTRACT: Anesthesiologists are well positioned to ...
Letters, COVID-19 / BY: Vielka Fernandez March 2021
... pandemic is a global health threat that has challenged medical schools across the world to rapidly transition from ... learning environments. As proposed by Dr Wong in his article ( BCMJ 2020;62:170-171 ), the strategies posed to secure medical training during this pandemic should be ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-kwe), JD, LLM, SJD March 2021
... on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. UN Declaration Article 24 is of particular relevance as it provides that ... more than twice as likely to leave BC hospitals against medical advice in the years 2015 to 2018.[ 1 ] It must be ... † Article 24 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sanya Ranchal, BSc April 2021
... cohort study of 217 women who underwent expectant, medical, or surgical management of a first ectopic pregnancy ... search, which was critical to the production of this article. Competing interests Dr Dunne is a member of the BCMJ ... in the review or decision making regarding this article. No competing interests declared. Ectopic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul J. Oxley, MD, FRCSC April 2021
... zygoma fracture with comminution of the orbital floor. His medical history was positive only for high blood pressure ... fatal arrhythmias, asystole, and even cardiac arrest. This article presents two severe cases of the oculocardiac reflex ...
Editorials / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD April 2021
... medicine is not immune, as highlighted by a recent CMAJ article by Drs Cohen and Kiran.[ 1 ] As a female physician ... implicit gender-based biases still existed throughout my medical school and residency training. I can’t count the ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Vivian W.L. Tsang, MD, MGC April 2021
... 2012. We hope that by providing insight into the program, medical providers will discuss and offer the lifesaving THN ... to start or expand similar programs. Physicians and medical providers play a huge role in reducing the stigma ... their insights on the history of the THN program for this article, and the BC Ministry of Health for funding the THN ...