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Clinical Articles / BY: Leo Wong, MD June 2000
... British Columbia lost 316 physicians due to attrition,[ 1 ] yet in 1998 there were only 133 BC-trained physicians entering practice in all of Canada.[ 1,2 ] As a result, for years the province has relied on an ...
Editorials / BY: Lorraine Gillespie, RN June 2000
... physicians and other practitioners, and the public.[ 1 ] The health-care system must become more responsive to the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert T. Morrison, MD, FRCPC July/August 2000
... Risk Estimation) was devised by Lydick and colleagues[ 1 ] as a simple technique to predict which individuals are ... density equal to the mean peak bone mass, a T-score of –1 represents 1 standard deviation below this, and a T-score of –2.5 has ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP July/August 2000
... their time” in rural communities have not yet worked.[ 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 ] Review of the literature reveals that the ... same year. The total number of listed physicians, at year 1, is expressed as 100%. The number of physicians listed the ... following years is expressed as a percentage of this year 1 cohort. For example, in communities with populations of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C.J. Sedergreen, MBBS September 2000
... College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC (7 July 1999)[ 1 ] relating to alternative and complementary therapies, ... first consultation with a massage therapist may last about 1 hour, during which time the therapist is expected to take a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Shayesta Dhalla, MD September 2000
... The spectrum of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN-1) extends beyond the defining parathyroid, pancreatic, and ... and lipomas. In this British Columbia family with MEN-1 and associated carcinoid tumors and carcinoid syndrome, the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jacqueline Saw, MD, FRCPC October 2000
... autoimmune, and infectious forms have been recognized,[ 1 ] with Coxsackievirus B3 infection being the most commonly ... Society and Federation of Cardiology Task Force.[ 1 ] Cardiomyopathies are defined as heart muscle diseases of ... Types of specific cardiomyopathies are listed in  Table 1 . Acute dilated cardiomyopathy is defined as the onset of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Steve Adilman, MD November 2000
... and is the home for about 4700 injection drug users.[ 1,2 ] The epicentre of the drug trade is located 3 blocks ... White men on methadone outnumbered Aboriginal men 6 to 1. The distribution for women was quite different; an almost ... clinic patients, females 34%, and transgenders 2% ( Figure 1 ). The patients ranged in age from 16 to 64 years. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP November 2000
... a complicated issue related to many different variables.[ 1-3 ] Attracting a physician to a community is the first step ... ] Ski-hill communities, i.e., communities located within 1 hour of a ski hill, were identified from the British ... sharply once a community population exceeds 7000 ( Table 1 ). The percentage of family physicians listed per community ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stephen G.F. Ho, MD, FRCPC December 2000
... mortality in British Columbia and worldwide.[ 1 ] CRC ranks second in cancer deaths, with the liver as the ...