Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Clay Barber,
July/August 2011
... comparison, with each of our five psychiatrists working 1 day a week assessing new consultations and chairing one ... new patients a year.” No appointment is required for the 1-hour group sessions; however, before participating, all ...
Letters /
BY: Adi Mudaliar, MD, CCFP
July/August 2011
... at the 22nd Annual Drug Therapy Decision course on 1–2 April 2011. This course was sponsored by the ... • In atrial fibrillation with a CHADS2 score of 1, 2, or 3 treatment with an oral anticoagulant is debatable. ... memorable learning points were that the Steno-2 Study[ 1 ] (which showed that long-term, multiple-risk factor ...
Letters /
BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC
July/August 2011
... serious adverse effects and even death when combined.”[ 1 ] It was sold on the Internet. Health Canada advised the ... reactions have been reported to occur with doses of 1 to 5 mg.[ 7 ] There are multiple products of ephedrine ...
Letters /
BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC
July/August 2011
... The pass rate was 86%, with additional 7% on second try.[ 1 ] It is most difficult to comprehend that with such short ...
Letters /
BY: Douglas C. Drummond, MD
July/August 2011
... a recent paper by Bonnie Dobbs and Donald Schopflocher.[ 1 ] DriveABLE was developed by Allen Dobbs (husband of ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Disha Mehta, BSc,
July/August 2011
... high—15%—prevalence of mental health disorders.[ 1 ] Even more alarmingly, disease onset occurred before 18 ...
News
July/August 2011
... during the trial period. So far trials have run for only 1 year or less, indicating a need to look at longer-lasting ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Andrew Montgomerie,
July/August 2011
... offered by WorkSafeBC. Occupational Rehabilitation 1 and Occupational Rehabilitation 2 OR 1 is a structured, active rehabilitation program focused on ... physicians, as required. You can request referral to OR 1 or OR 2 on a Form 8 or Form 11, or by contacting the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Rishi K. Bhalla, PhD,
September 2011
... health care utilization, and increased suicide rate.[ 1-3 ] Epidemiological data suggest that between 11% and 30% ... with baseline cognitive impairment remained impaired 1 year later despite having achieved remission of their ... poses for developing AD are described in Figure 1 .[ 25 ] This model is based on findings that LLD is ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Darcy Cox, PsyD, RPsych, ABPP,
September 2011
... are associated with a number of mental disorders.[ 1-3 ] The purpose of CBT is to help the patient reduce or ... to their experience of anxiety and depression.[ 1-3 ] In addition, patients may identify dysfunctional core ... contribute to a number of Axis I and Axis II disorders.[ 1-3 ] Core beliefs are challenged in the same ways that ...