Letters /
BY: Rainer Borkenhagen, MD
January/February 2024
... I was a hospitalist for a time, and in the remaining 5 years of a 42-year career, I focused solely on rural and ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research /
BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS
March 2024
... number of general surgeons per 100 000 population was 5.7 in Canada but 5.0 in British Columbia, where there were 263 surgeons: 184 ... from the 2012 study.[ 2 ] Using the Canadian average of 5.7 surgeons per 100 000 population and BC population ...
Letters /
BY: Judy Dercksen, MD
March 2024
... of pain is then connected to emotions, actions, memory,[ 5 ] and the downstream consequences of high alarm: ...
News
March 2024
... patients to have virtually supervised appointments 3–5 times over several months to build up to a small dose—in ...
Obituaries /
BY: Susan Endersby
March 2024
... program in pediatrics at Vancouver General Hospital. Her 5-year residency training also took her to Ontario, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Sofia R. Bartlett, PhD
March 2024
... from viral hepatitis compared with the rest of Canada.[ 5 ] To reduce the impact of viral hepatitis, the Canadian ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Peter Rothfels, MD
March 2024
... services workers during that time frame. During those 5 years, 12 of the physician claims were related to violence ... with occupational health and safety regulations.[ 5 ] As the regulator for BC workplaces, our role includes ...
BC Stories /
BY: Allison Chung, MD
March 2024
... I went to a segregated public primary school in Borneo. On 5-year-old legs, it took 45 minutes to walk there. Chinese ...
Beyond Medicine /
BY: Eiko Waida, MD, FRCPC, FAAP*
March 2024
... opportunities for improvement. Context Over the past 5 years, the IHA PQI program has exponentially increased the ... mutual respect, and complementary competencies.[ 2 , 5-9 ] What is unique is how these factors guided the authors ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research /
BY: Frank X. Scheuermeyer, MD, MHSc
April 2024
Background Approximately 5% of North American emergency department visits involve the ... resources, and medical informatics, we felt that a 5% relative decrease in hospital admissions was reasonable. ... databases in BC, which had a population of approximately 5 million during the study period. BC has more than 100 ...