Obituaries /
BY: Carolyn van Schagen, MD,
June 2010
... then began her work in Yellowknife where she stayed for 5 years. While in the North, she gained confidence in her ...
President's Comment /
BY: Brian Brodie, MD
June 2010
... to life and relationships outside of your work. 5. The inbox will seldom be empty! Get over it and turn off ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Michael Bayliss, MD, FRCPC,
July/August 2010
... he published a case series of 400 patients prescribed ASA.5 After 2 years of follow-up, none of these patients had ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Megan Isaac-Renton, BSc,
July/August 2010
... any organisms, and there was no growth on culture after 5 days of incubation. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests ... geographical distribution and biological characteristics.[ 5 ] Disease in humans is typically caused by two of these ... which are found throughout the United States and Canada.[ 5 , 6 ] Humans are most commonly infected through insect ...
News
July/August 2010
... these procedures. Cesarean delivery rates ranged from 27.5% in the South Vancouver Island area to 16.1% in Kootenay ...
Physician Information Technology Office /
BY: Jeremy Smith,
July/August 2010
... EMR among solo FSFP physicians is extremely low—between 5% and 10%. Those who have adopted an EMR are typically in a ... of practice groups in many of BC’s smaller communities,[ 5 ] and the difficulty in paper information flow in a ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: E. Lyle Gross, MD,
July/August 2010
... to and including loss of consciousness (LOC) for less than 5 minutes. If possible, you should confirm the length of the ... of injury (e.g., struck by a vehicle, fell =3 feet or =5 stairs). Other symptoms In spite of cognitive complaints by ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Margot Davis, MD,
September 2010
... in 2002 a third generation was enrolled. In the nearly 5 decades since the study’s inception, over 1200 articles ... smoking, diet, and obesity with the development of CHD,[ 3-5 ] and articles about risk factors for cerebrovascular ... intermediate risk categories according to the FHS model (5% to <10% and 10% to <20%) were reclassified into higher or ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Erica Frank, MD,
September 2010
... generally similar to all Canadian physicians’ ( Table 5 ), although BC female physicians were somewhat more likely ... between the BCMA and the Ministry of Health Services,[ 5 ] while physicians in other provinces must self-fund 100% ... physicians were much less likely to report heavy drinking (5 or more drinks on one occasion once a month or more often ...
Editorials /
BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD
September 2010
... marijuana a type of palliative therapy. This form takes 5 minutes to complete. Form B2 is for those very unusual ...