Premise /
BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD,
January/February 2010
... practice of venesection gained even greater importance.[ 2 ] Galen was able to propagate his ideas through the force ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Mira Keyes, MD, FRCPC
March 2010
... CME lectures, and industry and peer-reviewed funding of $2.5 million for the development of image-guided brachytherapy ... those meeting all of the Canadian consensus criteria[ 2 ] for low-risk disease: clinical stage (CS)=T2a (disease ... taking about 1 hour. Patients are discharged home 2 to 3 hours later. The radiation oncologist places the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: S. Green, MD, FCFP
March 2010
... these were then collected 1 week later (orthopaedics) and 2 weeks later (general surgery). The questionnaire included ... (internal medicine) residents for year of program (2.66 vs 1.76, P<.01), hours worked in the last 7 days (77.89 ... work-hour limit (82.00 vs 67.15, P<.001) ( Figure 2 ). There was, however, no significant difference between ...
Back Page /
BY: Sterling Haynes, MD
March 2010
... evacuated a blood clot) when they trepanned his skull.[ 2 ] Then they sewed his scalp back on by the banks of Jacques ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM
March 2010
... indicate that female-only vaccination is cost effective.[ 2 ] The grade 9 HPV vaccine program for girls in BC was ...
Editorials /
BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB
March 2010
... I could ask them for directions), and after an unplanned 2-hour driving tour of the city, we finally stumbled upon our ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Liza Kallstrom,
March 2010
... MDD was 1.4, compared with a presession group average of 2.7. Similarly, the average postsession confidence level ...
ICBC /
BY: Laura Jensen, MD,
March 2010
... medical examination starting at 80 years of age, and every 2 years after 80, in order to maintain a valid licence. ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Jenny Ko,
March 2010
... physician that there is no reasonable alternative.[ 2 ] These criteria imply that the competence and autonomy of ... disciplined only for not consulting another physician.[ 2 ] Hence, whether the euthanasia request is ...
News /
BY: Jeremy Daniels,
March 2010
... what physicians tell them about diagnosis and treatment.[ 2 ] Lacking from the book is a definition of pain itself. I ...