Editorials /
BY: Brian Day, MB
June 2012
... health care bureaucrat for every 1400 Canadians, versus 1 per 15000 in Germany. Reduced funding for patient care is a ...
Editorials /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
June 2012
... aerobic activity per week in bouts of 10 minutes or more.[ 1 ] I wonder how many physicians meet this guideline? ... encourage their patients to join them in a 30 minute or 1 km walk. It is clear that physicians have the ability to ...
Letters /
BY: John Walton, MD
June 2012
... injury. At the time I discovered that ICBC paid out in 1 year, on neck claims alone, as much money as was paid to ...
Letters /
BY: Andrew Farquhar, MD
June 2012
... raising the question, “Is obesity the wrong target?”[ 1 ] I firmly believe that it is. The obesity epidemic has ...
News /
BY: Sinden Luciuk,
June 2012
... are considered. Earned income is calculated annually as of 1 April and includes your prior calendar year earnings, ... advisor, please contact Ms Julie Kwan at 604 638-8745 or 1 800 665-2262 ext. 8745 or e-mail jkwan@bcma.bc.ca . ...
News&Notes /
BY: Lila Yewchuk, MD, FRCPC,
June 2012
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic, life-threatening autoimmune ... of 14, with 70 000 children newly diagnosed each year.[ 1 ] More than 300 000 Canadians live with type 1 diabetes.[ 1 ] Its incidence is increasing by 3% to 5% ...
Point Counterpoint /
BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em)
June 2012
... are being sold to the public, health authorities,[ 1 ] and to academia[ 2 ] under the guise of wellness and ...
Point Counterpoint /
BY: Hal D. Gunn, MD,
June 2012
... in breast cancer recurrence and death from the disease.[ 1 ] • Exercise is associated with a 50% to 60% ... lung cancer patients (i.e., stage 3B and 4) were alive 1 year after diagnosis, compared to just 20% or 23% of ...
Premise /
BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP
June 2012
... system are significantly reduced. As Kaplan and Porter[ 1 ] argue in a recent Harvard Business Review article, ...
President's Comment /
BY: Nasir Jetha, MD,
June 2012
... to government (up 2 percentage points), negotiations (up 1 percentage point), and Club MD (up 2 percentage points). ...