Letters
May 2002
... care and medical practice in the province. Character #1: “Doctors are overpaid crybabies. All they want is more ...
Letters /
BY: Yolanda Butt, BSc, MA
May 2002
... Dr Malleson for her informative and practical article [1] addressing the lack of awareness and implementation of ... postcoital contraception methods [ BCMJ 2002;44(1):30-35 ] without explaining why they remain controversial. ...
Letters
May 2002
... appeal to physicians in the January/February 2001 edition [1] and we appreciate Dr Leduc’s response [2] ...
Letters /
BY: Bernhard Toews, MD
May 2002
... What can be done? I would like to propose three solutions: 1. Full-service family doctors must be compensated at a ... than those without such training. 3. If suggestions 1 or 2 don’t work, I would suggest lobbying the CRTC to ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Robert Ferrari, MD, FRCPC
June 2002
... unhelpful issue in the greater context of medical care. [1-3] There is no apparent health benefit in making a ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Charles S.B. Galasko, ChM, FRCS
June 2002
... disorders cost the nation approximately £3.1 billion per annum ($6.8 billion) if one includes the ... cost Europe €10 billion per annum ($13.4 billion). [1] We have previously shown that the incidence was ... that the annual incidence in the United States was 1 million, [6] although it has been suggested that this ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Gunter P. Siegmund, PhD, PEng
June 2002
... associated with both an increased risk of whiplash injury [1-5] and a higher frequency of multiple symptoms [6] ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: James R. Taylor, MD, PhD
June 2002
... an injury mechanism without specifying a pathology. [1,2] Neck sprain assumes a ligamentous injury. [3] ... of the subgroup who survived injury for more than 1 hour, as the dorsal root ganglion hemorrhage became obvious when circulation was maintained for more than 1 hour after injury. [25] Comparability with whiplash Two ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Burton H. Goldstein, DMD, MS, FRCDC
June 2002
... muscles and the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). [1] The most common TMD (90% to 95% of cases) is ... considered a multifactorial biopsychosocial disorder. [1] Legal causation relates to the requirement to establish ... and jaw habit (clenching/bruxing) modification measures. [1] Dental orthotics (splint, bite plate, and so on) have no ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Murray Allen, MD
June 2002
... rate of a Western country (see the Table and Figure 1 ). [1] It is possible that part of the high claims behavior in BC ...