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ICBC / BY: Anita Gill, May 2008
... to vary his or her experience. ICBC requests a minimum 1 year commitment.  If you are interested, or would like ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, May 2008
... just 12.9% of Canadian FPs were delivering babies.[ 1 ]  There are a variety of reasons for this trend, chief ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) May 2008
... the most cost-effective health care measures available.[ 1 ] Even in countries with no organized health care system to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Helen Novak Lauscher, PhD May 2008
... into the health care system and a link to secondary care.[ 1 ] As the medical professional who initiates ... specific cancer information during a patient visit. Table 1  describes the typical cancer-related support family ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Borys Flak, MD, FRCPC, May 2008
... cause of cancer death among nonsmokers in North America.[ 1 ] The incidence in­creases significantly after age 50.  ... screening.  A study by Rabeneck and Paszat[ 3 ] of nearly 1 million screen-eligible Ontario patients age 50 to 59 ... risk is that for every 10 mSv of exposure, a patient has a 1 in 1000 lifetime risk of developing cancer.  This ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Barbara Poole Lane, MPA May 2008
... 64, mortality rates have de­clined steadily since 1986.[ 1 ] This improvement has been attributed to two main factors: ... cancer epidemiology The lifetime risk of breast cancer is 1 in 9 for women in BC.[ 4 ] Approximately 2700 BC women are ... for population-based screening in 1997.[ 10 ]   Table 1  uses the PHAC format to provide the most re­cent ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Greg Meloche, PhD, RPsych June 2008
... not made until the symptoms have been present for at least 1 month.  For those who meet the criteria for the event and ... in 3 months and some still experiencing symptoms after 1 year. Treatment of choice is a cognitive-behavioral ...
Obituaries / BY: Ruth Elwood Martin, MD, FCFP, MPH June 2008
... That term was coined in 2000 by Rita Charron,[ 1 ] but Mimi had always been doing narrative medicine. Even ...
News&Notes June 2008
... team is on site in the doctor’s office for approximately 1 to 3 days and the medical inspector reviews a statistically ...
News / BY: Ruth Elwood Martin, MD, FCFP, MPH June 2008
... contact Kiki Ziten, Honours and Awards Program manager, at 1 800 387-6197, ext. 432, or e-mail  kziten@cfpc.ca . ...