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Letters / BY: Bruce Nicolson, MD March 2016
... to unintended consequences. Reasonable options include: 1.    Expanding medical schools to produce more doctors. ...
News / BY: Claire Campion Wright, BSc, March 2016
... 105 000 of these people survive and join the more than 1.3 million Canadians living with health impacts from heart ... health? The average hospital stay after a stroke is 16.1 days. This is a loss of work time and the beginning of an ...
News March 2016
... complete a return of service to the locum program within 1 year of completion of training. The return of service will ...
President's Comment / BY: Charles Webb, MBChB March 2016
... In just 15 short years that number will escalate to 1.35 million seniors—nearly one-quarter of BC’s ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Benjamin Millar, MD, March 2016
... web-based tools for computer-mediated communication,[ 1 ] has had a growing impact over the past decade as a ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP March 2016
... incidence was 4.8 per 100 000, and in British Columbia 6.1 per 100 000. In certain groups, including Aboriginal ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ahmad Abdullah, MD, April 2016
... cold and mildly cyanotic feet, and a nongangrenous 1-cm dark purple skin lesion on the lateral sole of her foot. ... was accompanied by evidence of digital ischemia ( Figure 1 ). The patient later developed multiple lesions on the ... When the patient was readmitted for pain management 1 month after discharge, her ischemic toes were found to have ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel J. Lithwick, MHA, April 2016
... conditioned athlete typically doesn’t exhibit symptoms.[ 1 ] As a result, medical organizations such as the American ... same observational study used to support the Italian law.[ 1 ] This population-based study looked to determine the ... about heart murmurs in the physical examination ( Table 1 ).[ 3 ] Sensitivity has been reported to be a concern with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael W. Luong, MD, FRCPC, April 2016
... undiagnosed because patients tend to be asymptomatic.[ 1 ] In addition to inherited disorders, other risk factors ... women experience SCD, with a male-to-female ratio of 10:1.[ 3,4 ] In the United States, basketball is the highest ... National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division 1 male basketball athletes, who have an annual risk of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James McKinney, MD, MSc, April 2016
... physically inactive drivers (overall annual incidence of 1.9/1000 for conductors versus 2.7/1000 for drivers). ... less often in conductors than drivers (0.5/1000 versus 1.1/1000), and the conductors’ CHD were more likely to ...