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Clinical Articles / BY: Ralph J. Maddess, PhD May 2006
... difficulties of living in an isolated area with limited medical care and hospitals long distances away. One of the ... interviews were held with mental health staff, local medical practitioners, and social organizations impacted by ... and to develop minimum qualification requirements. In an article about a general practitioner in Ontario who was found ...
News / BY: Adam Lund, MD, MEd May 2006
... on crisis resource management and a general overview of medical errors. Of particular interest to medical educators ... Benefits Medical writing prize: $1000 for best student article The J.H. MacDermot Prize for Excellence in Medical ... Journalism comes with a cash award of $1000 for the best article on any medicine-related topic submitted to the BC ...
Premise / BY: Michael K. McIsaac, BA, May 2006
... to mental disorders are discussed in a Washington Post article. Dr Spero Manson, a psychiatrist who heads the ... An individual in crisis may have to wait a week for the medical evacuation helicopter to arrive. Rather than going to ...
Letters / BY: Joelle Bradley, MD, June 2006
Dr Graham’s article for WorkSafeBC ( BCMJ  2006;48[1]:36)  makes ... —Joelle Bradley, MD Vancouver   The author responds The article “Recognizing occupational disease” was intended, ... this was more difficult because we often had little or no medical information to go on. I want to clarify: we do not ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP October 2006
... in vineyards follows. More detailed reviews, which include medical management of pesticide exposure, are available ... Celina Dunn for the support provided in researching this article; Wendy Hunt, librarian, for assistance in collecting ... providing the claims data. The opinions contained in this article are those of the author and not necessarily those of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Cristina M. Aydin, BSc, October 2006
... Brandle and colleagues revealed that median direct medical expenditures for patients with type 2 diabetes ranged ... 500. [24]  Patients with diabetes have been shown to have medical costs 2.4 times greater than if they had not ... These findings are similar to those in Grossman’s review article of pioglitazone, whereby absolute reductions in A1c ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP November 2006
... consultant to WorkSafeBC and director of Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development for the UBC ... For more detailed results of this study, see the original article in the Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation [1]  (this abridged article is reproduced courtesy of Springer). —Don Graham, ...
Premise / BY: Michael F. Myers, MD, November 2006
Dr Myers was selected as the 2006 Osler Orator, Vancouver Medical Association. This is a revised version of his ... pearls that excite us—especially on those dim days of medical practice when our spirits are flagging and we need ... upon in the  American Medical News  a few years ago. The article was written by Dr Tennyson Lee, a resident in ...
News / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2006
... heart cannot be operated on, these doctors pioneer the medical revolution of cardiac surgery that continues today. ... and poor, Thomas is a carpenter by trade and has no formal medical training. His plans of becoming a doctor are ruined ... For more information about the fees discussed in this article, please log in to the members’ home page on the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brenda Kosaka, MD November 2006
... • Presence of pre-existing learning difficulties. • Medical and psychological history. • Previous head ... hypotheses testing, and an understanding of the underlying medical condition that is purportedly responsible for the ... you need (see the  Table ). Although the focus of this article has been on adults, many of the issues also apply to ...