President's Comment /
BY: Bill Mackie, MD
December 2008
... fine, I had a mishap that put me in a rigid neck brace 24/7 for 12 weeks. I was on Hornby Island helping prepare my ...
Physician Information Technology Office /
BY: Jeremy Smith,
December 2008
... or what proportion of these patients have A1c less than 7.0. With a few keystrokes, you can generate a list of ...
Obituaries /
BY: Andy Reed,
December 2008
... the BC Medical Journal, and remained in that position for 7 years. Her successor, Jay Draper, remembers Claudette as ...
Obituaries /
BY: Guy Winch, MBChB
December 2008
... he traveled to the UK for further training, where he spent 7 years. He eventually decided to specialize in orthopaedics, ...
Index
December 2008
... on the profession: Academic and clinical departments* 7:390 Arruda W: Out of control: Solving the child and youth ... to know* 8:444 Bates J: Medical school expansion in BC* 7:368 Beaulieu M: Demystifying chronic kidney disease: ... and their health care providers in British Columbia (cdc) 7:398; The authors respond (c) 9:492 Blondel-Hill E: How ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em)
December 2008
... on bike helmets saves $30 in indirect medical costs.[ 6,7 ] As happened with the introduction of seatbelts, the ...
Index
December 2008
... DISEASE BCMA supports Alzheimer’s research (pu) (Lyon T) 7:403 ANTIBIOTIC USE How British Columbia physicians can ... N, Ludemann JP) 5:252 Correction—foreign bodies (pu) 7:402 ASTHMA The Asthma Educator’s Handbook (pu) (Attridge ... (pu) 10:579 Call for nominations (pu) 1:34; 7:408 Drs Krisman, Nickerson, and Carpenter: Three truly good ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Vikram R. Comondore, MD,
December 2008
... nightshift workers across a range of occupations.[ 6 ],[ 7 ] Sleep inertia Cognitive performance is typically ... shifts, compared with months with no extended shifts (OR 7.0).[ 19 ] A separate study evaluated surgical task ... week. Residents slept more with the intervention schedule (7.4 hours per day vs 6.6 hours per day, P<.001). Furthermore, ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Lori d’Agincourt-Canning, MSc, MA, PhD,
December 2008
... for hereditary cancer have been successful in the UK[ 7 ],[ 8 ] Australia,[ 9 ] and the US.[ 10 ] To our knowledge, ...