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Premise / BY: Davie Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2025
... pharyngitis,[ 1 ] community-acquired pneumonia,[ 2 ] and gram-negative bacteremia,[ 3 ] to name a few. ... are inherently weird, and should generally be avoided: 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 days. Also, 3.14159265 days.[ 5 ] ... the following sequence of numbers, and fill in the blank: 2, 3, 5, 7, X, 13, and 17. The only value that makes ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Michael Joseph Lee, PhD June 2025
... are ubiquitous and perform many ecosystem services.[ 2 ] The concept of One Health is the understanding that the ... cyanobacteria, with more calls in recent years [ Figure 2 ] . Most (88%) of these calls were about individuals who ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Eileen M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP June 2025
... whether they live in a formally participating community.[ 2 ] In BC, e-scooter users must be 16 years of age or older, ...
Editorials / BY: Terri Aldred, MD June 2025
... have distinct histories, cultures, and spiritual beliefs.[ 2 ] First Nations replaced the term Indian , which is still ...
Letters / BY: Eugene Leduc, MD June 2025
... it approachable; and only 12% said it was transparent.[ 2 ] None of this fits well with “a body of colleagues, a ...
Letters / BY: Rita K. McCracken, MD, PhD, CCFP (COE), FCFP June 2025
... already prescribed opioids who go on to longer-term use.[ 2 ] In contrast, the 7.2% prevalence reported in this study refers specifically to ... deaths in BC involved nonprescribed fentanyl, while only 2% were linked solely to prescribed opioids without any ...
Letters / BY: Rebecca Z. Xu, MD June 2025
... with context about long-term opioid use in Canada.[ 2 ] We agree this is a different patient population from the 7.2% of opioid-naive users that became new long-term opioid ... overdoses in BC during the period of 2015–2017, only 2% were associated with a prescribed opioid (within 60 days ...
Original Research / BY: Tandi Wilkinson, MD, CCFP-EM, FCFP July/August 2025
... diagnostic imaging and definitive specialist care.[ 1,2 ] Additionally, the use of POCUS can reduce the volume of ... centres and ease the challenges of patient transport,[ 2-4 ] which is the largest barrier in practice for rural ... by the community and can be between half a day and 2 days. Residents and allied health practitioners can be ...
Original Research / BY: Olivia F. Hunter July/August 2025
... with the largest proportion of patients waiting more than 2 months for elective surgery.[ 2 ] In a study conducted between March and June 2020, 38% of ... procedures that had a demand of less than 5, a value of 2 was input for calculability. All data were publicly ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Paul Winston, MD, FRCPC July/August 2025
... Procedures for Spasticity sold nearly 900 copies in 2 years before being translated into Mandarin and Japanese. ...