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Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Valerie C. Doyon, MD January/February 2024
... in sensitive or cosmetically important areas.[ 1 , 2 , 4 , 5 ] However, the margins of the subsequent wide local ... invasive and in situ). Cutaneous biopsies In 46 (7.4%) skin biopsies, the biopsy technique (e.g., punch) was not ... and shave (3.3%). Nontraditional formats were used in 4.2% of biopsies, including saucerization, wedge, narrow ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Brooke McDonald, MD March 2024
... = 14; Island Health: n = 7; Vancouver Coastal Health: n = 4; Fraser Health: n = 1). The Figure shows the availability ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... how they might contribute to their well-being.[ 3 , 4 ] Bryant and colleagues suggest that sociocultural ... social relations, collective practices, and identities.[ 4 ] Considering both the people and the context, a population ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kevin E. Liang, MD, CCFP January/February 2024
... the province’s leading source of fossil fuel emissions.[ 4 ] Misinformation suggests that “natural” gas is part of ... 85 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 20-year span.[ 4 ] From extraction to transportation and usage, methane gas ...
Letters / BY: Min Jung Kim, BHSc January/February 2024
... experienced uniformly across all populations in Canada,[ 4 ] and the differential impacts on physical and mental ... decreased capacity for emergency planning and response.[ 4 ] In particular, Indigenous communities have been ... and 570 to 2500 premature deaths to long-term exposure.[ 4 ] Furthermore, access to and availability of basic ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD January/February 2024
... health reasons to eat mostly plant-derived food. It takes 4 kg of grain to produce 1 kg of pork,[ 3 ] and 7 kg of grain to produce 1 kg of beef.[ 4 ] Carbon dioxide is produced by burning oil or gas to ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS March 2024
... the entire general surgery service at their hospital per 4-week block. We also asked respondents to report their ... data were obtained from the BC MSP payment data series.[ 4 ] Appendectomy, the most common emergency general surgery ... they worked full-time, 16% (19) worked part-time, 4% (5) worked as a locum, 5% (6) only did surgical assists, ...
Letters / BY: Judy Dercksen, MD March 2024
... as dangerous and feel they cannot effect change.[ 4 ] This leads to a decreased sense of self-efficacy. ...
News March 2024
... They recruited about 180 such patients between the ages of 4 and 18, most with multiple food allergies. The SLIT ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC March 2024
... experiences. Overnight, lengths of stay went down by 4 days, and complications by a third. Together, we made ...