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Clinical Articles / BY: Neal Shahidi, January/February 2008
... in identifying the outbreak will soon be publishing an article describing the outbreak (personal communication with Dr Mark Romney, medical microbiologist, Providence Health Care, 16 August ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2008
... himself as a journalist who just happened to be doing an article on doctors and needed a photograph of a doctor carrying a medical bag.  I was standing in my office parking lot at the ... of lay publications.  The most recent example was an article in one of our local newspapers alerting all their ...
Letters / BY: Stephen D. Anderson, MD, FRCPC January/February 2008
In his November 2007  BC Medical Journal  article,[ 1 ] Dr H. Davis ex­pressed ...
Editorials / BY: Robert D. Levy, MD, FRCPC March 2008
... of this distinction remained somewhat elusive. Similarly, medical trainees were coached in the subtle physiologic ... the health and well-being of patients with COPD. The final article in this first part, by Drs Al Talag and Wilcox (see ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD April 2008
... papers have published a poorly re­searched or misleading article (e.g., “If the public health authorities wanted to ... to them. —Robert Shepherd, MDCM Victoria Letters Re: Medical reporting in the lay press ...
ICBC / BY: Sandro Laudadio, April 2008
In personal injury cases, where the medical condition of the plaintiff is in question, information from the plaintiff’s treating medical practitioners is of key importance. As a general ... Laudadio In-house counsel, ICBC Disclaimer:  This article is intended to provide general information only and ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG May 2008
... why can’t hospitals? You probably remember the article published in CMAJ in 2004 (Baker RG, Norton PG, ... 24000 of the deaths associated with these adverse events (medical or surgical) were potentially preventable. Granted, ... inexcusable, no matter how the statistics are presented. Medical error is arguably the next great medical frontier. So ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Helen Novak Lauscher, PhD May 2008
... care system and a link to secondary care.[ 1 ] As the medical professional who initiates inves­tigations, counsels ... Practice.  Data pertaining to the year of graduation from medical school revealed a normal distribution of survey ... of cancer control. Competing interests At the time this article was written, Drs Chritchley and Murray were employed ...
Obituaries / BY: Ruth Elwood Martin, MD, FCFP, MPH June 2008
... and French history at UBC.  In 1975, Mimi entered UBC medical school, where I first met her over our cadavers; we ... for those who have been sexually assaulted, and for the Medical Reform Group.  Mimi’s goodness was who she was; ... that would be de­voted to narrative and would include an article written by Rita Charon.[ 4 ]  —Ruth Elwood Martin, ...
Letters / BY: H. Davis, MD, June 2008
The purpose of any article is to both inform and to stir debate, and Drs Steven ... ] have taken issue with some of the comments made in my article published in your journal in November 2007 [ BCMJ ... among physiatrists themselves, regarding the role of this medical specialty in the care of people with alleged ...