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Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD November 2022
... Team Excellence with Patients Society (STEPS) community health centre (CHC)[ 1 , 2 ] in September 2021, and my ... others need support, ensuring the greater well-being and health of our team. Although the CHC model is working well ... we need more family physicians. Currently in the Thompson Health Region, approximately 39% of our population is not ...
President's Comment / BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD November 2022
... scarcity of resources, and uncertainty in an ever-changing health care landscape. And I recognize that a common theme in ... directly and inadvertently affect all of us in medicine, health care, and society. It can challenge our personal ... about the power dynamics that exist rampantly throughout health care, and most of us can agree there is an ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Delilah Topic, MD, FRCPC November 2022
... metabolic bone disorder, I’ve been on both sides of the health care system for most of my life. However, it was my ... certainty can be problematic. The significance of mental health in chronic disease The link between having a chronic ... my years as a patient, I have often felt that my mental health wasn’t given the same level of attention as my ...
Joint Collaborative Committees / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS November 2022
... with Indigenous peoples requires action from all health care professionals and providers in British Columbia. ... to have on Indigenous communities, and how unsafe health care spaces have left many Indigenous patients fearful ... unsafe care and to formulate ways to create space in the health care system to better meet the needs of Indigenous ...
MDs To Be / BY: Alessandro Cau, BSc (Hons) November 2022
... regions of BC where access to laboratory services and health care providers may be limited. Last, coverage of the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ellison Richmond, MD, MPH December 2022
... and approval of this study were provided by the Fraser Health Research Ethics Board. Given the potential benefits of ... 7, he was sent to the emergency department, with Emergency Health Services noting “twitching.” A CT scan of his head ...
Obituaries / BY: Richard James, MD December 2022
... where he was instrumental in establishing one of the first health centres in the country (essentially the precursor of the primary care networks that BC health authorities are now trying to establish). He became ...
Obituaries / BY: Davinder K. Sandhu, MD December 2022
... bedside of a patient and compassionately explaining their health challenges to them or seeing her with intensity in her ...
News December 2022
... more effective at reducing the risk of serious long-term health impacts compared with the current first step in ... of hospitalization and experienced fewer serious adverse health events that resulted in death, functional disability, ...
News December 2022
... It also leaves women unaware of the potential long-term health impacts of menopause. The survey involved 1023 ...