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Clinical Articles / BY: Carl Whiteside, MD, March 2009
... practice affects on recruitment for rural communities.[ 1-4 ] Evidence also supports admitting more students of rural ... in 2001. As of April 2008 this budget had expanded to $3.1 million. The programs and initiatives supported by this money are summarized in the accompanying  Table 1 ,  Table 2 , and  Table 3 . REAP faculty In order to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ken Cooper, CPHIC March 2009
... of 55 000 lives annually, mostly in Asia and Africa.[ 1 ] Rabies is transmitted by the saliva of an infected ... (unpublished data). A recent Quebec survey found that ~0.1% of the population annually may qualify for RPEP under the ... unrecognized exposure in the bedroom is thus estimated at 1 per 2.7 billion person-years. The number needed to ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC March 2009
... by drivers substantially increases the risk of a crash.[ 1 ] Cellphone use is associated with both a fourfold increase ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2009
... room listening to Urinary Incontinence in the Elderly[ 1 ] while your spouse/partner frolics in the pool or lies on ... be complete without the course evaluation—score between 1 and 100, where 1 equates to a hemorrhoidectomy without anesthesia and 100 if ...
ICBC / BY: Laura Jensen, MD, March 2009
... in WAD medical issues, both pointed out the lack of level-1 evidence. I suggest we acknowledge the lack of ...
News / BY: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD March 2009
... Desktop Publishing Centre Ltd., 2008. ISBN 978-0-9694983-1-5. Paperback, 536 pages. $43 (Duthie Books); $47.95 (UBC ...
News March 2009
... for urgent appointments had decreased (by an average of 2.1 days) and 73% indi­cated that wait times for regular and ... appointments had decreased (by an average of 4.6 and 4.1 days, respectively). In addition, 64% of physicians had ...
News / BY: Steve Wharry, March 2009
... or visit www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/86920/la_id/1.htm . The PMI program qualifies for CME credits. —Steve ...
Obituaries / BY: Henry Pauls, MD, March 2009
... his MD from the University of Alberta in 1949, in­terned 1 year at the University Hospital in Edmonton, then entered ...
Obituaries / BY: Harold G. Hunt, MD, March 2009
... is an understatement. John, Bev, and the four kids spent 1 year in London, Ontario. This was a year characterized by ...