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Letters / BY: Charles Krieger, MD, PhD, FRCPC April 2025
... using the Cerner electronic health record (EHR) system.[ 1 ] The points raised in the letter, including shifting ...
Letters / BY: John Maile, MBBS, April 2025
... doing house jobs in Brighton, UK, I was lucky to do a 1-year anesthesia residency in Vancouver before moving to ...
Letters / BY: Gary C. Jackson, MD April 2025
... dysplasia with over 95% sensitivity and specificity.[ 1 ] For those not familiar with colposcopy statistics, that ...
Original Research / BY: Jennifer Kask, MD, CCFP, FCFP May 2025
... endocervical swabs and first-catch urine tests;[ 1-4 ] the latter may miss up to 10% of chlamydia infections ... swab home and then return the sample to the lab [ Figure 1 ] . During the pandemic, clinicians were unable to conduct ... at the Island Health outpatient labs was analyzed from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2023. Clinicians and lab staff ...
Premise / BY: John A. Cairns, MD, FRCPC May 2025
... was published, somewhat later than many had predicted.[ 1 ] Immediate medical applications included development of ... health care systems (10 provincial, 3 territorial, and 1 federal) and their lack of interoperable electronic health ...
News May 2025
... key initiatives that exemplify the association’s work. 1. Standing orders policy change reduces burdens on BC ... in 2025, extends standing order expiration dates from 1 to 2 years, saving physicians an estimated 30 to 40 hours ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM May 2025
... mosquitoes collected in Kern County, California.[ 1 ] Human cases of CSG virus infection were initially ... is usually 3 to 7 days. An early symptomatic phase lasting 1 to 4 days may manifest as fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, ... as relapsing fever serology. Cerebrospinal fluid (1–2 mL): should be collected in each of two tubes, without ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC May 2025
... on the birthday of Dr Emily Jennings (Stowe). Born 1 May 1831, Dr Stowe was a trailblazer—the first woman in ... at least one session at an Ontario medical school.[ 1 ] Repeatedly denied Canadian medical college registration ... to place her fate in the hands of a prejudiced panel.[ 1,2 ] Dr Stowe’s challenges did not end there. In 1879, she ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Bal Hannay May 2025
Scenario 1: You request that a WorkSafeBC medical advisor call you to ... details with WorkSafeBC directly, either by calling 1 844 276-3344 or submitting a Request for Direct Deposit in ... you need to change it. Call WorkSafeBC Payment Services at 1 888 422-2228 to find out.  What happens when you submit a ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD May 2025
... cherished patients, and I learned more about her in that 1 hour than I had in the 12 years I had known her. I was ...