Clinical Articles /
BY: Marlene E. Hunter, MD, FCFPC
January/February 2003
... day. However, that doctor was also on call 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week, which is fine if one is there for a month or 6 ... Dease Lake in BC, is a painful and time-consuming 61/2- to 7-hour journey. There is Watson Lake Hospital, a mere 31/2 ... previous 11 (plus, let us remember, 34 health councils and 7 community health service societies that worked with the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: James E. Miles, MD, FRCPC
January/February 2003
... therapy may be seriously prejudiced” (see Table 2 ). 7. Have you, as a couple, had previous marital therapy? Who ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Barbara Cadario, BSc, BScPhm, MSc
January/February 2003
... Health Products Directorate of Health Canada, with $7 million in new funding for postmarketing surveillance in ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Hiram Mok, MA, MB BCh, BAO, FRCPC
March 2003
... Mental Health Services by Chinese people has risen from 7.5% in 1990 to 9% in 1993 and 12.3% in 1999. [4] Reitz [1] ... reported a single diagnosis. Co-morbidity was found in 19.7% (n=73). The majority (87.8%, n=325) of patients received ... 32.4% were referred to other services. Among those, 21.7% of them were referred to support groups and 19.2% were ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Terry Curran, MD, FRCP
March 2003
... (savings) for the long-term gain (early retirement). 7. Toys-R-Us “Toys-R-Us” could be the home banner for ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Martin Petric, PhD, FCCM
March 2003
... The duration of shedding has now been documented to be 7 to 14 days compared to 1 to 3 days based on EM methodology, ...
Letters /
BY: Anthony Taddei, PharmD
March 2003
... found an incidence of serious cardiovascular clotting of 0.7% with naproxen and 1.7% with rofecoxib, an incidence of serious adverse effects of 7.8% with naproxen and 9.3% with rofecoxib, and a heart ...
Letters /
BY: Andrew Farquhar, MD
March 2003
... reduce the microvascular complications of diabetes. [6,7] The authors’ data on blood glucose management, ...
Letters /
BY: Stephen Shore, MD, CCFP
March 2003
... family doctor, for being available or arranging 24-hour, 7-days-a-week coverage for my patients. Whereas there is ... for providing low- to moderate-risk care 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week or even an obstetrician/gynecologist for ... After almost 28 years of providing or arranging 24-hour, 7-days-a-week care for my patients, teaching for almost 20 ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC
April 2003
... ongoing HIV epidemics as a result of injection drug use, [7,8] and overdose deaths are among the leading causes of ... in the Downtown Eastside’s district increased from $6.7 million in 1995 to $11.2 million in 2001, the drug problem ...