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Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Elizabeth Burden, MD January/February 2023
... advanced heart failure with symptoms refractory to maximal medical management and one or more heart failure ... study and was exempt from formal ethical review per Article 2.5 of the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical ...
News January/February 2023
... the winner of the J.H. MacDermot Prize for Excellence in Medical Journalism (Independent), which recognizes a BC ... medical student’s significant achievement in writing an article without any physician coauthors, for his article “Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors: A new ...
Editorials / BY: Terri Aldred, MD January/February 2023
... I can attest to personally. A friend of a friend posted an article on social media about questions you shouldn’t ask ... questions, and I went online to comment that I found the article useful and to apologize for not knowing better. But ... used to address the shame and fear around acknowledging a medical error. This includes normalizing (i.e., we all make ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Brendan Tao, BHSc March 2023
... department with substance-induced psychosis, several medical management steps can be taken to reduce symptoms. ... with psychosis, particularly those who need urgent medical assessment, have severe psychiatric symptoms, or pose ... portion of these cases is attributable to substance use or medical etiologies rather than a primary psychotic disorder ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB March 2023
... and fan of the journal for even longer; my first BCMJ article was published in 1981.[ 1 ] It will surprise no one ... offers universal health care. As president of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) in 2007–2008, I lobbied hard for ...
Editorials March 2023
... orthopaedic surgeon, his passion for the state of medical care in Canada has been reflected over the years in ... colleagues and patients and his talents as a writer. His article reviews at the Editorial Board table were swift and ... the Editorial Board as its newest member. Dr Schwandt is a medical health officer with Vancouver Coastal Health and a ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Vivian W.L. Tsang, MD, MGC April 2023
... Substance Use and Addictions Program) focus primarily on medical interventions such as opioid agonist therapies, ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Carol-Anne Vallée, MD May 2023
... their reproductive years. Due to the introduction of the medical abortion pill mifepristone in 2017, most abortion ... providers are now family physicians, who typically offer medical abortion within a wide range of primary care ... services research highly related to the content of this article. As well, she received payment for expert testimony ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC April 2023
... aren’t we talking more about menopause? When I teach UBC medical students about menopause, I emphasize that it is a ... others. In February 2023, the New York Times published an article titled “Women have been misled about menopause.”[ ... for developing breast cancer. As Dominus points out in her article, “[w]hat happened next was an exercise in poor ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD April 2023
... and reprocessing; and fewer opened packages. Canadian medical students have organized initiatives to integrate ... 21 February 2023. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/land-acknowledgment . Native Governance Center. A ...