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Clinical Articles / BY: Marina Leichner, RN January/February 2005
... ill patient for a period just long enough to achieve medical stability, since longer hospitalizations may result ... are ready for intensive treatment or until they reach a medical crisis that requires involuntary admission. The ... Program, for her advice and input on writing this article. Competing interests None declared.  Table 1. The ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ronald S. Manley, PhD, RPsych January/February 2005
... consultation process and in the ideas expressed in this article, and have paraphrased his sample discourses with ... Following the various assessments (diagnostic interview, medical evaluation, and psychosocial assessment), we meet ... this purpose. Following the diagnostic interview and the medical and psychosocial assessments patients undergo in the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Nelson Ames, MD April 2005
In place of the regular article by the Environmental Health Committee, I have asked ... with a psychiatrist from the UK who was in charge of medical triage. Having lost my glasses, I was paired with an ... for the next life-shaping experience. —Nelson Ames, MD Medical Health Officer, Kootenays Council on Health Promotion ...
Editorials / BY: Shaila Misri, MD, FRCPC April 2005
... patients experiencing psychiatric disorders.  The first article describes different kinds of antipsychotic medicines ... relieve symptoms and stabilize mood , while  the second article discusses the use of antidepressant medications , ... Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of British Columbia Medical Director, Reproductive Mental Health, BC Women’s ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce B. Forster, MD, MSc, FRCPC May 2005
... effects of low-level radiation is beyond the scope of this article, there is general agreement that the risk of ... a salary from Canada Diagnostic Centres (BC), where he is medical director. Coronary artery calcification studies are ...
Premise / BY: David Snadden, MBChB, MCISc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin) June 2005
The expansion of BC’s medical program is the first in a series of steps we must ... generalists remain problems in need of action. About this article ”Medicine—Beyond hope?” was first presented by ... in the community and commitment to the development of medical services in the North stemmed from his father, Dr ...
Back Page / BY: Jonathan Down, MBBS, MHSc, DCH, FRCPC June 2005
... I have changed the way I practise. When I graduated from medical school in 1975, I knew nothing about fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Indeed, the seminal article by Smith and Jones describing the features of FAS had ... the part of the brain required for self-regulation. In a medical report, I would term this “inhibition of socially ...
Letters / BY: Lloyd Westby, MD September 2005
I am writing in response to Dr Jack Burak’s excellent article from April 2005 entitled, “BC’s technologically ... been my least concerning challenge. At the outset, Wolf Medical Systems, the software vendor, assured me that the ... my earning power at the same time. The latest versions of medical voice recognition software systems are so slick that ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD September 2005
... enjoy a richer, fuller life.” I’d not heard of it. The article directed interested readers to a book entitled  In ... how this can possibly be helpful to someone with multiple medical problems who is likely on multiple medications, as ...
Editorials / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC September 2005
... to help train future physicians. As suggested in the first article in this theme issue, “A tale of two cultures,” we ... mentors, due in part to a paradox in our system of medical education. For centuries mentoring was the principal ... exposure to patients.  As Dr Rowe points out in his article , “The practice of medicine is not an exact ...