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Letters / BY: Khati Hendry, MD, September 2007
... I am ever impressed with the increased quality of life people in Canada experience due to the relative health ... they enjoy. Retire early? No worries. Change jobs? Ditto. People are free to worry more about their health, not how to ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2007
... gray hair. That’s typical of medicine anywhere—young people have got a different idea of lifestyle. They don’t ... a democracy, and the majority rules. We’re not squashing people who vote for or against a particular thing—but once ... say fee issues, or a big fight with government, people come. If they don’t come, I read it as a vote of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Eleni Galanis, MD, MPH, FRCPC September 2007
... fever, night sweats, and weight loss. To date, eight people have died of cryptococcosis (case fatality rate = ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Fok, MD, FRCPC September 2007
... hours for work and sleep per week. Research suggests people may overestimate or underestimate self-reported ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC October 2007
... or end-stage liver disease develops in 10% to 20% of people with chronic HCV infection after 20 years, and 1% to ... are chronically infected and an additional 20 000 people remain unaware of their infection. Although the annual ... identified through testing persons at risk as well as people who were infected years ago and who may be developing ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG October 2007
... same time we must be seen as a profession of advocates for people who are ill, and even for those who are potentially ... you.” The days of a physician being all things to all people at any cost are surely gone. But patients are the ...
News October 2007
... by a layperson to medicine and/or to the welfare of the people of British Columbia or Canada. CMA Honorary Membership ... in the field of medical organization; service to the people of Canada in raising the standards of medical practice ... or health education of the public; service to the people of Canada in raising the standards of health care ...
Obituaries / BY: Neil Menzies, October 2007
... clinics and as a school physician. Always interested in people, she made friends with everyone she met, and will be ...
Premise / BY: Michael A. Ross, MD, FRCSC October 2007
... and 11% of men suffer from migraine. MRIs on all these people would bankrupt the system. Anxious patients will ... with rare progress. I was surprised that these intelligent people could not see that the maternal death rate in the ... to the foot which would certainly have occurred with people walking everywhere over stony goat trails wearing ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, October 2007
... Caribbean and fell in love with both the island and its people. We totally shocked a villa sales representative by ...