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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, June 2009
Two new incentives launched 1 June 2009 by the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) ...
ICBC / BY: Laura Jensen, MD, June 2009
... have little to do with the neck pain being experienced.[ 1 ] Degenerative changes are common in asymptomatic patients, ...
Letters / BY: Michael A. Noble, MD, June 2009
Drs Copes, Evans, and Verhille[ 1 ] write compellingly on the evils of bottled water (not ...
News / BY: Mohsin Rashid, MBBS, FRCPC, June 2009
... in the world. It is estimated that celiac disease affects 1% of the population but 90% of these individuals remain ... celiac disease among health professionals remains poor.[ 1,2 ] The mean delay in diag­nosis of celiac disease in ... • Epilepsy • Ataxia • Thyroid disease • Type 1 diabetes Dermatitis herpetiformis (DH) is “celiac ...
News June 2009
... BC online at www.healthlinkbc.ca or by calling 8-1-1. News Preven­ting sports injuries ...
Premise / BY: Alexandra Tcheremenska-Greenhill, MD, June 2009
... to regard themselves as belonging to the profession,”[ 1 ] and “The chief weakness of the profession lies in its ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD June 2009
... To clarify, we offer the following examples. Scenario #1 The work-related injury Your patient steps into a hole at ... for the claim file. Scenario #2 Same as Scenario #1 except that postsurgery the patient experiences extensive ... Medical Services at 604 244-6224 or toll free at 1 888 967-5377, extension 6224. —Peter Rothfels, BEd, MD, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sandra Jarvis-Selinger, PhD July/August 2009
... differences that affect access to educational activities.[ 1 ] • Relevance of the educational content to rural ... Figure ),[ 8 ] 307 GPs and 141 specialists (see  Table 1 ) responded, for a response rate of 31% for GPs and 28% for specialists. Results were organized according to (1) clinical learning need areas/preferred CPD content, (2) ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tarek Khalil, MPH, MD, MCFP, July/August 2009
... of novelist Henry James and philosopher William James.[ 1 ] Several decades later, in 1927, Dr Francis Peabody wrote, ... the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Exam (MCCQE) Part 1, but that examination assessed only medical knowledge and ... foreign medical schools on four continents ( Table 1 ). All subjects reported that they had not received any ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Gregory D. Deans, MD, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2009
... of genes from human, avian, and swine influenza.[ 1 ] In the weeks after swine-origin influenza vi­rus (S-OIV) ...