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Specialist Services Committee / BY: Sean Virani, MD, May 2014
... accountability systems over the coming 3 years.”[ 1 ] For the Specialist Services Committee (SSC), creating ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Jonathan Fenton, MD, FRCS, May 2014
... a specialist to consider reconstruction. Recommendations [ 1 ] Surgeons will provide their surgical patients with a list ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Haroon Hasan, BSc, MPH, June 2014
... hypothalamic-pituitary region will be diagnosed with GHD[ 1-3 ] and require growth hormone replacement therapy (GHRT). ... and biochemical response.[ 9 ] It is estimated that 1 year of GHRT for a young adult with GHD would cost between ... and with a pediatric patient population (45%) (see  Table 1 ). The vast majority of respondents (82%) have been in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gil Kimel, MSc June 2014
... currently retired and lives in Montreal with his family.[ 1,2 ]  The recent founding of the Heart Failure Supportive ... syndrome still rising in prevalence. In British Columbia, 1% of the population has HF.[ 4-6 ] The mortality rate in ... and the overall approximate survival rates are 66% for 1 year, 50% for 2 years, and 35% for 5 years, similar to ...
Back Page / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD June 2014
... to put people to sleep. The older docs sometimes used 1, 2, 3—a mixture of chloroform (1 part), ether (2 parts), and alcohol (3 parts) dropped over ... to the level of the knowledge of the cherubim.[ 1 ] “The veil of eternity” was never lifted for ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Eleni Galanis, MD, MPH, FRCPC June 2014
...  infections may result in Guillain-Barré syndrome (0.1% of cases). Key clinical characteristics such as those summarized in  Table 1  can help differentiate between types of enteric ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD June 2014
... and Surgeons of British Columbia. Preamble C. 19(1) of the MSC Payment Schedule and the  Doctors of BC Guide ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Michael A Benusic, UBC Medical Class of 2014, June 2014
... environmental, socioeconomic, or health effect.”[ 1 ] The chief medical health officers of Vancouver Coastal ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD June 2014
... time. In 1962 he started Camp Kakhamela, a camp for type 1 diabetics age 6 to 17 years where they could spend time ...
Letters / BY: Allan Donkin, MD, June 2014
... they invariably reach their prior conclusions.[ 1 ] Dr Dale further describes that I made an error of logic ...