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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ilona Hale, MD, FCFPC May 2023
... medical interventions like surgeries and hospitalization.[ 2 ] Consider the resources and energy needed to produce the ...
Premise / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI May 2023
... reduction. The other benefits of early detection[ 2 ] that improve quality of life for women with breast ... outcomes can be achieved with less invasive treatment[ 2 ] when cancer is found early, especially before it has ... study was conducted in Canada.[ 10 ] It included 2.8 million women and showed mortality reduction of 40% ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tung Siu, MD, CCFP, ACBOM May 2023
... to work after an injury or illness are well known.[ 1 , 2 ] Community family physicians are in a unique position to ... being able to watch a movie implies sitting tolerance of 2 hours. Likewise, being able to do dishes or mow the lawn ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Anton R. Miller, MBChB, FRCPC June 2023
... 9% of the general population of children in Canada.[ 1 , 2 ] The terms neurodisability and neurodevelopmental ... should play in the life and experience of these families; (2) to disseminate the most salient learnings from our work in ... from activities undertaken to address barriers 1 and 2: a scoping review of the relevant literature,[ 13 ] surveys ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Michelle Ng, MD, CCFP June 2023
... ad hoc interpreters such as family or staff members.[ 2 ] In British Columbia, Provincial Language Services has ... proficiency encounter frequency (see Appendix 1 , Appendix 2 ,  Table S1 , and Table S2 for detailed calculations).[ ... 5 and 20 minutes made up most of the calls [ Figure 2 ]. Languages requested The most requested languages were ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Patricia M. Massel, MD June 2023
... environments, lack of continuity of care, and isolation.[ 2-8 ] However, most studies have focused on rural Australia ... of recommendations for improvement is provided in Table 2 . Travel delays The problem of travel delays was ... care travel. Visiting a specialist often took 1 to 2 days of travel, and dangerous winter travel conditions ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD June 2023
... I watched Brené Brown’s TED Talk on vulnerability,[ 2 ] read the summary of Amir Levine and Rachel Heller’s ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Shirley X. Chen, MPH June 2023
... a higher risk of death than any other chronic disease.[ 2 ] There were 134 deaths among people with schizophrenia in ... with a threefold increase in the risk of death.[ 2 ] Despite these striking results, people with schizophrenia ...
MDs To Be / BY: Nicola Horwood, MD June 2023
... that the majority of knee X-rays are non-weight-bearing.[ 2 , 3 ] A British study found that 98% of nontraumatic knee ... ordered by family physicians were non-weight-bearing.[ 2 ] This can result in treatment delays, because supine ... diagnosis of osteoarthritis in mild to moderate cases.[ 2 , 4-7 ] Additionally, weight-bearing X-rays are better at ...
Obituaries July/August 2023
... Dr William Beresford Gough Gubbins 17 June 1946–2 April 2023 Dr Andrzej (Andrew) Tadeusz Jakubowski 25 April ...