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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Réka Gustafson, MD, MSc, MHSc, FRCPC January/February 2011
... STOP HIV/AIDS Pilot Project in BC (STOP AIDS).[ 5 ] This article provides considerations for clinicians throughout BC ... adequate pretest counseling that, as with any other medical intervention, they have the opportunity to refuse ...
Premise / BY: Jamie Graham, January/February 2011
The article “Emergency departments: Are they considered a safe ... cops who actually investigate these kinds of cases.  The article also rekindled the discussion and will prompt a ... Code absolves him or her of mandatory participation. Medical doctors, like many profes­sionals, are guided by ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nathan W. Brunner, MD, FRCPC March 2011
... Encyclopedia Britannica.  At the age of 20 he enrolled in medical school at Tulane University in New Orleans. At Tulane ... legendary surgeon Alton Ochsner, who recognized the eager medical student’s potential and fostered his interest in ... Ellis DeBakey. Competing interests None declared. This article has been peer reviewed. Clinical Articles Aortic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Keith M. Laycock, MB, ChB (Edin), MCFP, Dip Sport Med, March 2011
Although all provincial jurisdictions in Canada hold medical practitioners responsible for determining whether ... for screening and assessment of older drivers in a medical office, only level III evidence was found, and the ... be on the road. Competing interests None declared. This article has been peer reviewed. Even though it has prov­ed ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Janet McElhaney, MD, March 2011
... and Palliative Care Committee —Sonia Murray, UBC Medical School, Class 2012 —Martha Donnelly, MD, CCFP, ... Director, Seniors Care, Providence Health Care This article is the opinion of the Council on Health Promotion and ...
Letters / BY: Hugh H. Macartney, MB, FRCP, March 2011
The [WorkSafeBC] article “Evidence-based treatment of chronic pain” ... The authors appear to be unaware that there are medical journals that deal specifically with pain and its ... review does not appear to be available. I would give this article a failing grade. —Hugh H. Macartney, MB Victoria ...
News&Notes / BY: J. Pawlovich, MD March 2011
... outlived their uselessness.”  —Marshall McLuhan The medical hinterland of Bri­tish Columbia is on the cusp of ... to access something so ordinary as an ultrasound. The medical community has long embraced the belief that patients ... Project) for his ongoing support of this program.   This article has been peer reviewed. News&Notes Special report: ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: S. Michele Dalgarno, MD, March 2011
... or her recovery. The work must be within the worker’s medical re­strictions, physical limitations, and abilities. ... determining the safety of the work, after considering the medical evidence and other relevant information. • The ... Michele Dalgarno, MD, CCFP Senior Medical Advisor This article is the opinion of WorkSafeBC and has not been peer ...
Letters / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD April 2011
... that PubMed has over 12000 studies on cannabis and that a medical cannabis advisory group has dozens of recent ... indications for marijuana as per Health Canada’s Medical Practitioner form B1. However, most physicians would ... out in the Harm Reduction Journal, 28 January 2008, in his article “Regulating Compassion: An overview of federal ...
Letters / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD April 2011
I enjoyed Dan Small’s article entitled “An anthropological examination of an ... tattarattat woke me up. Your rotavator stirred up many medical sagas and loads of BS: my medical colleagues sometimes could be “drab as a fool, ...