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Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB January/February 2021
15 December 2020 Since my previous editorial,[ 1 ] penned near the start of the ... by our current reality. The number of positive cases in my practice and those of my colleagues has risen steadily in ... up to everyone. Due to recurring outbreaks at my local hospital, I have undergone four COVID-19 tests. My first ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2021
... more. I did cellular, molecular, and microbial biology in my undergrad and then ended up going into medicine. And I ... I can’t do it. I have to be outside when I ride. It’s my quiet time. My alone time. It’s thinking and recharging ... psychiatrists willing to work in hospitals so the fees for hospital-based work were hiked. It caused an exodus from ...
Back Page, COVID-19 / BY: Mandy Ruthnum, MD, FCFP January/February 2021
... family? One morning in August, I was snoozing in bed when my youngest son woke up with abdominal cramps. Small muscular ... on an excess of cherries and pull the comforter over my head. In COVID-19 times, new dramatic physical symptoms ... time. At last, we drove to the white tent at our local hospital where we were greeted by the kindest public health ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2021
25 January 2021 I received my first dose of vaccine against COVID-19 last week. A fellow physician from another location injected me at a hospital vaccination clinic. For some reason he avoided the bulk of my deltoid and aimed for the acromion, causing him to hit ...
Back Page / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC April 2021
... about the nitric oxide pathway has fizzled somewhat. In my field of anesthesiology, it is only used in ... is consulted for an upper-airway situation in the hospital, it continues to be for some extremis situation. ... surgical practice has changed a lot since the Tonsil Hospital of the 1920s in New York City, which was built to do ...
Letters / BY: Roger Seldon, MBChB, MD June 2021
... of vulnerable adult patients seeking to leave hospital: Understanding and using relevant legislation,” having had just such a conundrum during my shift the previous evening. Unfortunately, the article did ... would be much appreciated. Incapacity due to addiction By my reading of the article, my patient (whose parents were ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David R. Richardson, MD June 2021
... this third viral wave has the potential to overwhelm our hospital resources, the powers that be made travel ... wondered who “they” are. I have even asked some of my patients, but I never seem to get a clear answer. As best ... however, receive increasingly suspicious glances thrown in my direction as the belief grows that maybe I am part of ...
News / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD June 2021
... almost every district of BC. I had the feeling of reliving my student days as I read the sections on how Dr Kerr and Dr ... the number of medical students and a plan for a campus hospital or lose out on an unclaimed federal fund that was ...
Letters / BY: Richard N. Merchant, MD, FRCPC September 2021
... Edge: Reminiscences of Surgery at the Vancouver General Hospital and the University of British Columbia, 1915–1985 ... executive and general meetings from Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) dating back 70 years to 1950. They describe ... and good for you for thinking of it, but I’m sorry my backyard is full. Doctors of BC helps form the collective ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2021
... us will experience a different side, which recently became my reality, as my wife is unwell with an uncertain future. The tendency is ... nurses, therapists, porters, administrative staff, hospital workers, and more. I would like to thank all of them ...