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Original Research / BY: Tandi Wilkinson, MD, CCFP-EM, FCFP July/August 2025
... in practice for rural emergency department practitioners.[ 5 ] Furthermore, patients’ satisfaction with care improves ... on the ferry—like, brutal. And I could tell you, like in 5 minutes, [that the baby was alive].” (Physician) “My ... a magician sometimes to be able to see inside. And like in 5 seconds you can see a problem, which it would [instead] ...
Original Research / BY: Olivia F. Hunter July/August 2025
... the federal government’s benchmark limit of 26 weeks.[ 4,5 ] These increased wait times have consequences for patient ... For surgical procedures that had a demand of less than 5, a value of 2 was input for calculability. All data were ... 2016, BC had the second-longest wait time for a CT scan (5.0 weeks versus the national average of 3.7 weeks) and the ...
News June 2025
... we need your guidance. We are asking physicians to take 5–10 minutes to complete our confidential survey . Your ...
Premise / BY: Davie Wong, MD, FRCPC July/August 2025
... and efficient decisions, similar to a rule of thumb. [5] These heuristics protect us against cognitive burnout from ... to gain something. This is known as loss aversion. [5]  This can result in the prescription of antibiotics to ... apply to their patients are experiencing aggregate bias. [5] For instance, multiple national guidelines recommend ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Shelina Babul, PhD July/August 2025
... workers who have been employed for at least 12 months.[ 5 ] This means that employers must provide alternate or ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC July/August 2025
... AI applications in digital pathology[ 4 ] and radiology[ 5 ] have been proposed as physician partners, although ...
MDs To Be / BY: Taewoong Chae, MD September 2025
... and patients, and perceived empathy of care providers.[ 5 ] The interpersonal skills of care providers[ 6,7 ] and ... Excel was used to adjust responses so that a score of 5 indicated a strongly satisfied response, while a score of 1 ...
Clinical Case Reports / BY: Sydney Sparanese, MD September 2025
... under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.[ 3-5 ] While organic arsenic is generally less toxic, its ... normal ratio of free light chains. Glycated hemoglobin was 5.3%. Serologies for HIV, hepatitis B and C, and syphilis ... microvasculitis. She was later treated empirically with 5 days of IV methylprednisolone and IV immunoglobulin with a ...
Original Research / BY: Christina W. Lee, MD, FRCSC, FACS September 2025
... making is a fundamental tenet of surgical care.[ 3-5 ] Despite robust evidence demonstrating significant ... of palliative care with disease-directed treatment,[ 5-7 ] there has been little uptake within the general ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Janene Erickson, Nak'azdli Whut'en, MPH, BKin September 2025
... history and we must remain committed to addressing it.”[ 5 ] Truth before reconciliation This year, we mark a ...