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News January/February 2024
... on her next book as well as advocating for Indigenous health and cultural safety in her community. Ms Kaitlin Kwok ... in understanding how unique populations are impacted by health care interventions and is involved in various research ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Valerie C. Doyon, MD January/February 2024
... optimize patient outcomes. British Columbia’s Northern Health Region primarily serves rural and remote populations. ... been an audit of melanoma surgeries within the Northern Health Region. This study aimed to quantify guideline ... reports for all melanoma-related cases in the Northern Health Region from 2016 to 2020. Ethics approval was granted ...
News January/February 2024
... cancer, or have their screening sample collected by a health care provider, and will have access to a network of ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Brooke McDonald, MD March 2024
... surgical care, is essential to a well-functioning health system. Over the past 2 decades, there has been ... to 25 000 (2021 census) were included in this scan.[ 8 ] Health centres and clinics were excluded. Local surgical ... rooms.[ 9 ] Those data were verified and expanded by using health authority websites,[ 10 ] by making direct inquiries ...
Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... and advocacy has always been what can you do to make health care and the spaces you work in better, whether ... make the decision was colleagues reaching out to say that health care has been in a difficult position for physicians. ... of their lives. If you expand from that to the entire health care system, it’s nothing more than a sum of its ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... Journal of Bioethics , Hyett and colleagues explain that health care research is inherently deficit-based because it ... us to believe that Indigeneity is a “risk factor” for health outcomes like alcohol use disorder or diabetes. ... protective factor that has been demonstrated to improve health outcomes if appropriately recognized and supported.[ 5 ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD January/February 2024
... with each other, with our divisions, and with our health authorities, rather than trying to carry the burden ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... the province are now trained in quality improvement and health care leadership. More than 80 health care facilities in BC now have medical staff ... a surgeon, I work with all kinds of doctors, nurses, and health care providers to deliver the complex care my patients ...
Premise / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) January/February 2024
... or suffering to have timely and ongoing access to a health care professional who knows them and with whom they ... on science and technology and toward the side of health care we family physicians used to excel at, and a ... (familiarity that takes a few years to develop), improves health outcomes over a simple diagnosis and treatment by a ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kevin E. Liang, MD, CCFP January/February 2024
British Columbia is facing a critical health crisis that is inextricably linked to the environment. ... heat waves, and droughts are on the rise, impacting public health.[ 1 ] These events are directly connected to the ... what were once rare weather events into frequent, severe health emergencies. The 2021 heat dome is a stark example, ...