News /
BY: Erin Connors
November 2022
... fee structure, which currently approaches approximately 1.4% of the value of an average policy. Beneficiaries ...
Editorials /
BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC
November 2022
... and clearly, I am late to the game.[ 1 ] Dr Csikszentmihalyi’s TED Talk has over 7 million ... by a myriad of high performers and world leaders.[ 1 , 2 ] Flow experiences are those during which one’s sense ...
Editorials /
BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD
November 2022
... funding, which is meant to help clinics stay open from 1 October 2022 until 1 January 2023, is a nice gesture, but it gives our patients ... Patients Society (STEPS) community health centre (CHC)[ 1 , 2 ] in September 2021, and my overall experience has been ...
Beyond Medicine /
BY: Delilah Topic, MD, FRCPC
November 2022
... immune from illness and chronic disease. Living with type 1 diabetes for 29 years, as well as a metabolic bone ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Alessandro Cau, BSc (Hons)
November 2022
... in Canada, almost half of them under the age of 65.[ 1 ] Furthermore, the percentage of patients who progress to end-stage renal disease has grown by 35% since 2009.[ 1 ] Until recently, in addition to management of ... are modest in patients with an eGFR of less than 45 mL/min/1.73 m 2 .[ 12 , 14 ] Nonetheless, the protective effects of ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Ellison Richmond, MD, MPH
December 2022
... a 23% increase from 2020 and a 113% increase from 2019.[ 1 ] Opioid agonist therapy effectively reduces the risk of ... movement. All patients experienced these signs within 1 to 3 days of hydromorphone initiation and had resolution ... no express consent was obtained from the patients. Patient 1 This patient was using 0.5 to 1.0 g of IV opioids daily, ...
Letters /
BY: Vaclav Hyrman, MD, FRCPC
December 2022
Dr Keyes and colleagues[ 1 ] recently presented a study of burnout among oncologists ...
Letters /
BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD
December 2022
... from these reserves is projected to be approximately $1.5 million in 2023, which allows us to charge the ...
Editorials /
BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC
December 2022
... about The Gifts of Imperfect Parenting by Brené Brown.[ 1 ] Her book emphasizes that it’s not just how we talk to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Jason Wong, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC
December 2022
... syphilis rates for 2022 are on track to be even higher.[ 1 , 2 ] The majority of infectious syphilis cases in the past ... and other men who have sex with men populations,[ 1 ] raising concern of increases in congenital syphilis. ... 3 ] were reported in BC from 2019 to 2022 quarter 2.[ 1 ] One resulted in stillbirth or neonatal loss. Similarly, ...