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News October 2011
... daily doses (DDD) of weak and strong opioids per 1000 people set by WHO, Canada’s dispensation of the drugs ... of all dispensed strong opioids rose from 20.3 DDD/1000 people in 2005 to 23.0 DDD/1000 people in 2010.  While the volume of dispensed strong ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD October 2011
... like to have? To be able to sing in public without seeing people cringe. What do you consider your greatest ... three interesting, creative kids. Who are your heroes? People who just get on with doing the right thing, despite ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Rob Gair, BSc (Pharm), November 2011
... which may adversely alter renal function.  Older people have a decreased thirst drive which may lead to ... illness associated with reduced oral intake. Many older people with acute kidney injury experience a combination of ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2011
... we call a spade a spade. I fear that potentially good people are being weeded out as they refuse to learn the ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD November 2011
One of the privileges of working with young people is that the course of their lives is still so flexible ... im­pact, good or bad, we may have on these young people, even when we don’t rea­lize it.  I remember ... he explained that the fans lining the walkway were often people who might only ever be at one NBA game in their life, ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Evoy, PhD, November 2011
... successful businesses born of individuals or groups of people working with others to create or produce something.  ... and uses rewards and punishments to motivate people. But because it doesn’t require complete consensus ... in the community. We’ve also formed relationships with people from Fraser Health and the ministry, and because ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper November 2011
... in 1994, and while president I worked with some tremendous people, both medical folks who were on the Board as well as ... of Professional Relations, being involved with really good people, that’s a tremendous learning experience. I learned ... dynamic organism. It isn’t the building, it’s the people who are in the building. The best asset that the BCMA ...
Letters / BY: R.M. Preshaw, MD November 2011
... in survival would save the lives of up to 15000 people. Similar programs expanded worldwide would presumably ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC November 2011
... It may be as good (or as bad) as the Pink Pills for Pale People sold at the turn of last century in Canada with ...
MDs To Be / BY: Devina Wadhwa, November 2011
... just a few, are responsible for the deaths of millions of people in developing nations but are virtually unheard of in ... last 60 years. It is currently estimated that 2 billion people live on less than $2 per year; this extreme poverty ... about culture, language, medical issues faced by the people, and the possible sustainable interventions are all ...