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News&Notes / BY: Michal Smialowski, MD, January/February 2014
... snowing so hard I could barely see the road, and the usual 1-hour trip took double that. I get ribbed from the local ... quick reply from Antarctica where he was at the start of a 1-year sojourn as team doctor at the South African research ...
Obituaries / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC January/February 2014
... it was there in September 1947 that Dr Russell Palmer[ 1 ] did the first successful hemodialysis in North America ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Joe Pinto, January/February 2014
... •    Ask the worker to call WorkSafeBC at 1 888-WORKERS to file a claim. •    If immediate ... or after initiating a report, please call 604 231-8888 or 1 888 967-5377, and speak to a physician in WorkSafeBC’s ... of workplace bullying and harassment   Effective 1 November 2013, a new, enforceable WorkSafeBC policy came ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kostas Ioannou, MD, FRCPC, March 2014
... not assay a mountain of ore by testing one rock.”[ 1 ] Jeff Holter’s words resonate with many physicians who ... arrhythmias.  Jeff Holter Jeff Holter was born on 1 February 1914 in Helena, Montana. He was a science ... conduction testing with Dr Joseph Gengerelli of UCLA.[ 1,2 ] Although he never pursued a medical degree, his ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Daljeet Mahal, MSc, March 2014
... outnumber the world’s population of 7 billion people.[ 1 ] The use of mobile communication technology such as ... 3 ] Participants who received the intervention over a 1-year period had significantly improved medication adherence ...
Letters / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI March 2014
... for breast cancer.” They should have been more specific. 1. Early detection allows breast conservation. Women need to ... reduction among women who chose to be screened in BC.[ 1 ] That is not a slight decrease. 4. Overdiagnosis is not ...
Letters / BY: Andrew J. Coldman, PhD March 2014
... for participants in screening. In a study of BC data[ 1 ] we found that screening had only a modest effect on the ...
Letters / BY: Adi Mudaliar, MD, CCFP March 2014
... and British Heart Foundation heart protection study[ 1 ] there were nearly 6000 patients older than 70 and more ...
Letters / BY: Murray McFadden, MD, March 2014
... provide its opinion on interpretation of the fee guide.[ 1 ] Ontario law changed in 2006[ 2 ] and 2010[ 3 ] as a ... Program’s bias of physician guilt before innocence! Item 1: “Review conducted by Billing Integrity Program” (BIP) ...
MDs To Be / BY: Rebecca Gordon, BSc, March 2014
... than the reported rate of 7.4% for Kenya as a whole.[ 1 ] We suspect this is due to a variety of factors including ...