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President's Comment / BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD April 2022
Dr Ramneek Dosanjh Significantly more influences our health than whether or not we are free of disease. Our holistic health—physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional—as individual physicians and the collective health of us as a profession is influenced by many internal ...
News / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) April 2022
Patients at risk: Exposing Canada’s health-care crisis By Susan D. Martinuk. Winnipeg: Frontier ... is a Vancouver-based journalist and research fellow in health care for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, an ... the tenets of Canadian medicare enshrined in the Canada Health Act in 1984 (public administration, comprehensiveness, ...
News April 2022
... 100 patients have had to be transferred out of Northern Health since the start of the fourth wave to hospitals with ... getting critically ill from the fifth wave. The impact on health care workers in a remote community like Chetwynd ... residents, nurse practitioners, and nurses—any rural health care worker—over Zoom. The RTVS physicians, who are ...
News April 2022
... an initiative of the BC Parks Foundation driven by health care professionals. Each prescriber who registers with ... and log nature prescriptions. Doctors and other licensed health care professionals in BC can now prescribe Parks ... . News Prescribing nature to improve health ...
News April 2022
... its 2021 Report to Members , with a focus on physician health and wellness. To illustrate some of the ways the ... physicians throughout the pandemic, the report looks at health and wellness advances made by the Physician Health Program, by the Rural Coordination Centre of BC, and ...
News April 2022
In April 2020, Health Canada launched Wellness Together Canada in response to a rise in mental health and substance use concerns due to the COVID-19 ... The free, online platform provides 24/7 access to mental health and substance use supports to all Canadians. A free ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS April 2022
... is available without cost to specialists irrespective of health authority affiliation courtesy of the Specialist ... who are members of divisions of family practice and for health authority–affiliated specialists. DynaMed has ...
WorkSafeBC, COVID-19 / BY: Michelle Tan, MD, CCFP, MBA April 2022
... rehabilitation programs, which include mental health support. These programs provide supportive care and ... —Michelle Tan, MD, CCFP, MBA Medical Consultant, Health Care Programs, WorkSafeBC WorkSafeBC COVID-19 ...
Premise / BY: Karen Trollope-Kumar, MD, PhD, CCFP April 2022
... conditions, even if a clear link between weight and the health condition in question has not been demonstrated. ... that we respect their dignity and their autonomy to make health care decisions. The need for community-based services ... to the escalation of both physical and psychological health problems and the risk of suicide.”[ 11 ] The ...
MDs To Be / BY: Nora Tong, BDSc April 2022
... samples has also changed significantly since the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) first publication of its ... fertility concerns should include questions about general health, testicular symptoms, duration of infertility, sexual ... in a coal mine, indicating a global decline in the general health of males because low sperm counts have been associated ...