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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Eileen M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP June 2025
... e-scooter pilot project in 13 participating communities.[ 1 ] A new 4-year pilot was then initiated in more communities ...
Editorials / BY: Terri Aldred, MD June 2025
... and the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples in 1995.[ 1 ] This is a day for Indigenous people and communities to ...
Letters / BY: Eugene Leduc, MD June 2025
... body of colleagues, a guild, fellowship, association.”[ 1 ] When I gratefully received my licence to practise in ... . . . formed for purposes of study or instruction.”[ 1 ] Last year, the CPSBC closed its medical library and ...
Letters / BY: Rita K. McCracken, MD, PhD, CCFP (COE), FCFP June 2025
... opioid use in British Columbia between 2013 and 2017.”[ 1 ] Their work highlights historical prescribing trends and ...
Letters / BY: Rebecca Z. Xu, MD June 2025
... about our article on new long-term opioid use in BC.[ 1 ] Our understanding is that they are concerned our study ... long-term opioid users within our 4-year study period.[ 1 ] Our focus was to determine the BC-specific initial opioid ... and not initially prescribed methadone or buprenorphine.[ 1 ] In a previous study by Crabtree and colleagues, the ...
Obituaries / BY: Gaylene Vickery June 2025
... from UBC’s Faculty of Medicine in 1960 and completed a 1-year internship in family medicine at Vancouver General ...
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 ... Semi-structured one-on-one interviews approximately 1 hour in duration were conducted by a research assistant via ...
Original Research / BY: Olivia F. Hunter July/August 2025
... (OECD) member countries with universal health care.[ 1 ] Among eight such countries, Canada was consistently below ... (13%), France (10%), Switzerland (6%), and Germany (1%).[ 1 ] Within Canada, British Columbians in particular face long ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Paul Winston, MD, FRCPC July/August 2025
... treatment of spasticity through collaborative care.” [1] So began our journey to launch what is now an ... of BC (CPSBC). Our tiny clinic has raised close to $1 million from donors to the Victoria Hospitals Foundation, ... over the world. By allowing licensing for fellowships from 1 day to 6 months, access to educational opportunities around ...
Premise / BY: Davie Wong, MD, FRCPC July/August 2025
... including the wrong drug, duration, dose, or indication. [1] Excessive antimicrobial prescriptions can harm patients, ... two systems of thinking for making decisions. [4] Type 1 is fast and intuitive, operating on pattern recognition for ... Experts claim that we spend 95% of our time in type 1 thinking. [4] Cognitive biases are more likely to occur in ...