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ICBC / BY: Doug Harrington, July/August 2008
... stated it would be medically helpful and necessary.[ 2 ] Recent court decisions dealing with payment for private ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD July/August 2008
... Barbara Mc­Gil­livray from UBC Medical Genetics provided 2 days of intriguing, thought-provoking, dialogical discourse ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Wilma Arruda, MD, July/August 2008
... second-leading cause of death among 10- to 24-year-olds.[ 2 ]  • Canada has the third worst suicide rate in the world for 15- to 19-year-olds.[ 2 ] • 40% to 50% of office visits to pediatricians are for ... receive any form of psychological care and a mere 1% to 2% are treated by mental health specialists.[ 5 ] • Every ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Betty Tang, MD, FRCPC, July/August 2008
... disability compared with those in the general population.[ 2 ]  Although specialized outpatient and inpatient mental ... be considered reliable in their self-report (Cases 1 and 2). In other cases, a patient may have an Axis I psychiatric ... There is an urgent need for such a facility in BC.  Case 2:  “Laura,” in her 20s, has mild DD and lives in a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jeffrey M. Pike, MD, MPH, FRCSC July/August 2008
... to BCCA. A partial hemi­pelvectomy was performed ( Figure 2 ) and systemic staging investigations identified metastatic ... the outcome of the relatively few sarcomas present ( Table 2 ).  Errors in the early diagnosis and management of these ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Farsheed Hedayati-Vala, MD, July/August 2008
... varies widely across health districts and regions.[ 1 , 2 ]  An endoscopic diagnosis is generally agreed to be ... of 12 000 people. From September 2002 to December 2004 (2.5 years), 677 scopes were undertaken at the facility. One ... pain (38.8%), and for a lower scope was PR bleeding (36.2%). Only one colon cancer and one esophageal cancer were ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Catherine L. Weber, MD, FRCPC, July/August 2008
... before they reach the point where they require dialysis.[ 2 ] In addition, a significant proportion of patients have ... of these abnormalities can be diagnosed with Stage 1 or 2 CKD. This common misconception has led to unnecessary ... Pacific Islands, Afri­can, and Asian descent ( Table 2 ).  In general, these high-risk groups should be screened ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD September 2008
... a monthly maximum. (Read more about POP below.) Scenario #2 All other factors are the same as in Scenario #1, but Dr ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD September 2008
... 10 minutes and on site within 45 minutes. • Level 2—Where a physician is required to be available by phone within 15 minutes and on site within 2 hours. • Level 3—Where a physician is required to be ...
Obituaries / BY: Michael A. Ross, MD, FRCSC September 2008
... 1974 to 1977. He was the flight surgeon at CFB Comox for 2 years, with 3 months each of pacifying the Golan Heights ...