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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Hortense Tabien Nsoh, MD July/August 2016
Wildfire smoke poses public health risks for populations both near to and far from the ... evidence-based responses to clinicians’ questions on the health effects of smoke, and highlight tools for situational ... ozone (O 3 ) on sunny days. PM 2.5 is the principal public health threat from short-term smoke exposure. What health ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD June 2016
... well done over the years. There is a current move in our health region away from hospitalists, and the GPs have been ...
Letters / BY: Shirin Rostamkalaee, MD June 2016
... they would also be able to fill the gaps in Canada’s health care system. To sum up, there are many qualified IMGs ...
Letters / BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD June 2016
... in the provisional class (a registration status under the Health Professions Act) under sponsorship and supervision. ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS June 2016
... relationships with patients, with one another, with other health care providers, and most certainly with society. As of ... combined with societal changes and changes within the health care system itself, are impacting the way physicians ... us feeling burned out and, yes, skeptical of the future of health care. We struggle with a fragmented system in which ...
Premise / BY: A.W. Battison, MD June 2016
... need and experience life as residents in a foreign health care system. We spent our time at Tygerberg Hospital ... The provincial government heavily subsidizes the cost of health care. The tariffs are income based and set out in the ... guide students and residents through this process. The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) regulates ...
Editorials / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP June 2016
... Department of Family and Community Medicine, Providence Health Care Editorials Palliative care: Learning to fall ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP June 2016
... “intends neither to hasten or postpone death” (World Health Organization, 1990, ... improve symptom control and quality of life, and to reduce health care utilization in the last months of life.[ 1 , 12 , ... leads to a greater positive impact on length of stay and health care costs.[ 14 ] Research has also revealed that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jonathan Pearce, MD, CCFP(PC) June 2016
... to end-of-life care has been shown to result in higher health care costs in the final week of life and a worse ... what the patient understands about his or her individual health currently, as this will affect how the conversation ... to think about beliefs, values, and wishes for future health care and then proceeds to help the patient document ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Linda M.N. Hoang, MSc, MD, DTM&H, FRCPC June 2016
... difficile infection continues to be a common cause of health care–associated diarrhea in North America, ... region in BC from a highly virulent strain associated with health care–associated C. difficile in 2008 to novel strain ... in 2013.[ 3 ] These novel strain types identified in the health care setting in 2013 were seen in the community ...