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Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Cheryl Young, MD, CCFP January/February 2022
... death.[ 9 ] Given this concern, we reviewed calls to the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre (BC DPIC) about exposure to ivermectin and two related ...
Editorials / BY: Gail Knudson, MD, MEd, FRCPC January/February 2022
... the care for transgender and gender-diverse individuals in BC has moved from being heavily centred in tertiary care ... are based on the distress of body/mind incongruence. In BC, the manuals used in classifying and coding with respect ... to the establishment of Vancouver Coastal Health’s BC Centre for Sexual Medicine in 1979. At present, three ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sahil Kumar, MSc January/February 2022
... transition. In September 2019, the Gender Surgery Program BC, located within Vancouver Coastal Health, became Western Canada’s first and only centre to perform lower body gender-affirming surgeries for ... close to home. In addition to the Gender Surgery Program BC, Trans Care BC has established a network of ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Tiffany Wong, MD, FRCPC January/February 2022
... them with first-tier care? Created and developed in BC, the new Penicillin Allergy De-labeling Tool will help ... on a cellphone or computer. As an allergist working at BC Children’s Hospital, I have treated many young patients ... a multidisciplinary team that shared resources with the BC Centre for Disease Control and BC Women’s Hospital to study ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Abdullah Al Mamun, MBBS, MPH March 2022
... Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada.[ 4 ] BC PharmaNet prescription data from our last prepandemic year ... In 2019, median DOT (Q1, Q3) per prescription in BC for all antibiotic prescriptions was 7 (7, 10) days, with ... shorter is often better. —Abdullah A. Mamun, MD BC Centre for Disease Control —Daniela Michel, MPH BC Centre ...
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 ... Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre—“Consent to Health Care: A Guide for Young ...
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 help nurses, nurse practitioners, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sean Duke, MSc, MD April 2022
... highly accessible alternative to traditional, academic centre-based simulation training. Additional benefits include ... throughout five departments in a pediatric tertiary care centre.[ 18 ] The program delivered experiences that were ... 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
... with case-matched controls was conducted at the Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine, a private ... 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 ...
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 ... become a patient of the James Bay Urgent and Primary Care Centre 2 years ago. She still has no family physician. She ... is $300 000; in Alberta it is $250  000 to $300 000. BC lags far behind. The first step our government needs to ...