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Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC September 2025
... reading and learning to improve patient-centred care.[ 1 ] In this issue of the BCMJ , we’ll hear from Dr Lui in ...
President's Comment / BY: Charlene Lui, MD September 2025
... Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action[ 1 ]—particularly those focused on health, #18–24. ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Janene Erickson, Nak'azdli Whut'en, MPH, BKin September 2025
... not a good subject. But it is one that has to be done.”[ 1 ] — Debra Sparrow, Musqueam weaver, artist, and Knowledge ... Columbia Cultural Safety and Humility Standard, section 1.1.1: “The organizational leaders develop an anti-racism and ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Derek Bains, BKin, MOT September 2025
... 41 286 new work-related musculoskeletal injuries.[ 1 ] While many individuals with such injuries make a swift ... these programs included Occupational Rehabilitation 1 (OR1), Occupational Rehabilitation 2 (OR2), and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ilona Hale, MD, FCFPC September 2025
... mental health emergency” with inequitable impacts.[ 1,2 ] Climate-related disasters like wildfires, hurricanes, ...
Review Articles / BY: Moroj A. Aldarmasi, MD October 2025
... cerebrovascular disease, and peripheral artery disease.[ 1 ] As the disease progresses, it can lead to unstable ... underscoring its long-standing impact on human health.[ 1 ] Despite advances in medical interventions and preventive ... room. The radiation exposure of the scan does not exceed 1.0 mSv, which is comparable to that of a screening ...
Original Research / BY: Octavian Turner October 2025
... province’s sole provider of adult liver transplants.[ 1 ] In 2023, the program performed 112 transplants, meeting ... and the median Child-Pugh score was 8 (IQR: 6,10) [ Table 1 ] . For inpatients at referral, the mean age was 51 years ... the median Child-Pugh score was 11 (IQR: 10,12) [ Table 1 ] . These findings suggest that inpatients had more ...
Letters / BY: Dean Giustini, MLS, MEd October 2025
... My mentor, former CPSBC Library director Bill Fraser,[ 1 ] emphasized that librarians’ value to medicine was ...
Letters / BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC October 2025
... including 31% fewer longitudinal care visits [ Table 1 ] .[ 1 ] For decades, family physicians complained of ... specialists increased their total visits by 17.6%.[ 1 ] The opportunity for family physicians “to perform a ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Walter, MD October 2025
... and then over 2 years of subspecialty training, with 1 year out for serious health problems. That is 18 years ...