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Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: A. Cherukupalli, MD, MHSc September 2023
... recurrence rate in NERD patients, thereby reducing overall health care costs while improving patient outcomes.[ 17 ] ... [ Table 1 ][ 12 ] to work within the constraints of the BC health care system. Since November 2021, 10 patients have ... disease that requires subspecialized care from multiple health care providers to optimize outcomes. In BC, greater ...
Premise / BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC September 2023
... a family physician in British Columbia, the Ministry of Health announced the Longitudinal Family Physician Payment ... more tests and increasing referrals. The Ministry of Health announced the new Longitudinal Family Physician ... in predicting their annual compensation, the Ministry of Health has provided a compensation calculator.[ 1 ] Table 2 ...
Premise / BY: Susan M. Lee, MD, FRCPC, MAS November 2023
... imperative to do whatever we could to ensure that, as a health care system, we were doing everything we could to ... to prevent SARS-CoV-2 and respiratory viral infections in health care settings included the following key points and ... widely, and maintain universal vaccination policies for health care workers. A recent review based on international ...
News September 2023
... Teams (CMAT)—a disaster-relief organization made up of health professionals who volunteer to assist victims of ... met, Dr Chao, a primary care physician at UBC’s Student Health Clinic, also happened to be deployed on the same CMAT ... to return to Ukraine to do research on the country’s health care system to try to understand how it has remained ...
News / BY: Eric M. Yoshida, OBC, MD, MHSc, FRCPC September 2023
... Dr Penny Ballem, chair of the Board of Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), who provided an inspiring keynote address along ... award winning endocrinologist, pioneer in women’s health, and advocate for women in medicine. Dr Prior is world ...
Letters / BY: Charles Ludgate, MD, OBC September 2023
... spent in the long run. We have reached a point where the health care system has become an overwhelmed human repair ...
Letters / BY: Michelle Hawkins, BSc (Hons) September 2023
We read with interest the article “Health care in supportive housing facilities”[ 1 ] by Dr ... individuals in supportive housing face in meeting their health needs, we believe the article’s conclusions could ... that are discussed in the paper. In 1948, the World Health Organization defined health as “a state of complete ...
Editorials / BY: Terri Aldred, MD September 2023
... passed down across multiple generations, resulting in the health disparities we see today.[ 2 ] The color orange was ...
President's Comment / BY: Joshua Greggain, MD September 2023
... impact of generational trauma and the subsequent health consequences. I tried to practise what Maya Angelou ... you to do the same. I ask you to consider reviewing the health-related Calls to Action (#18–#24) from the Truth and ... Commission of Canada Calls to Action #18–#24 (health) 18.    We call upon the federal, provincial, ...
Premise / BY: R. Eric Demers, BSc, CCPA, CD September 2023
... is required to deliver safe, effective, and affordable health care. Challenges to health care delivery in Canada include the country’s ... in higher negative impacts on social determinants of health in at-risk populations, including Indigenous people, ...