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Editorials / BY: Gail Knudson, MD, MEd, FRCPC March 2022
... youth, and some are even openly malicious. However, BC has a strong medical, legal, and ethical framework that ... areas in transgender and gender-diverse health care: BC law with respect to minors consenting to hormone therapy and surgery, including recent BC court decisions; sexual health of transgender and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: barbara findlay, MA, LLB, QC March 2022
... entitled to consent; his father could not intervene. The BC Court of Appeal agreed.[ 9 ] There have been two further ... ] a parent’s request for an injunction was denied. So in BC, the law about consent to treatment by transgender youth ... treatment. Note that there is no specific age cutoff in BC: a minor may be competent to decide about a particular ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nicole J. Todd, MD, FRCSC March 2022
... and expert opinion. Further complex reproductive care in BC can be accessed through the Rapid Access to Consultative Expertise (RACE) line, Trans Care BC, and the Complex Contraception Clinic at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. My intention is to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Emily Wiesenthal, BA March 2022
... gender-affirming hormonal and/or surgical therapies in BC.[8-10] The application of gender-affirming therapies is ... preservation, in vitro fertilization, or insemination in BC, and the financial burden of treatment may prove ... care for trans, Two-Spirit, and gender diverse patients in BC: A primary care toolkit [PDF] ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sean Duke, MSc, MD April 2022
... workspace. A recent example of a similar initiative is the BC Simulation Network’s COVID-19 Simulation Guide, which ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Rahana Harjee, MD, FRCSC April 2022
... of asymptomatic infections because, as is the case across BC, patients were not routinely tested for COVID-19 before ... controls was conducted at a private fertility centre in BC. In vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection ...
Obituaries / BY: Brian Day, MB April 2022
... his adopted province and country, and settled in Surrey, BC. After his arrival in Canada, he began working as an ... him to develop an interest in politics. After settling in BC, he served as an alderman in Surrey, was a campaign manager for an MP, and even ran for a seat in the BC provincial legislature. He later shifted those interests ...
Letters / BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP April 2022
Try to find a family doctor in BC and you will be sadly disappointed. Patients are now ... is $300 000; in Alberta it is $250  000 to $300 000. BC lags far behind. The first step our government needs to ... rest of Canada has tackled this problem with some success. BC needs to get on board. —Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP ...
Letters / BY: Joanne Sinai, MD, MEd, FRCPC April 2022
... Letters The current gender-affirming care model in BC is unvalidated and outdated ...
Letters / BY: Andrew Kotaska, MD April 2022
... School of Population and Public Health, University of BC Adjunct Professor, Department of Obstetrics and ...