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President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS December 2016
... time through service to charitable causes. But for nearly 1 million British Columbians, giving has become a central ... caregiver on any given day. In BC there are approximately 1 million people filling this role, most of whom are caring ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Kelly Mayson, MD, FRCPC December 2016
... the risk of either organ hypo- or hyperperfusion.[ 1 ] There is wide variability of practice, both between ...
Letters / BY: Murray Trusler, MD, MBA, FCFP, FRRMS, May 2016
... ability to recommend one class of OAC over another.”[ 1 ] It should be remembered that the mean time in therapeutic ... management system. Consider the following process. 1.    Patients attend the lab as usual. 2.    The INR ... responses, and accept the warfarin dose if the INR is < 1.5 or > 4.0. 6.    A warfarin-dosing calendar is printed ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Susan Hynes, BA, MBA, December 2016
... patients, contact Health Care Services at 604 232-7787 or 1 866 244-6404 (press 2). —Peter Rothfels, MD Chief Medical ...
Letters / BY: Vandad Yousefi, MD, CCFP, FHM, May 2016
Dr Nicolson’s eulogy for Marcus Welby[ 1 ] completely misses the mark when it comes to understanding ... that promotes “high-volume low-intensity practice.”[ 1 ] Changes in complex adaptive systems such as medicine are ...
Letters / BY: Bruce Nicolson, MD May 2016
... there is nothing new under the sun.” –Ecclesiastes 1:9 —Bruce Nicolson, MD 100 Mile House Letters Re: ...
News May 2016
... are debilitating or deadly. Chronic kidney disease affects 1 in 10 Canadians, and this initiative will explore various ...
News May 2016
... or glucose testing (e.g., fasting plasma glucose [FPG; $1.46] or 2-hour plasma glucose [2hPG; $12.94]) can be used ... of Fees—Laboratory Services Payment Schedule as of 1 October 2015. News GPAC guideline: Diabetes care ...
News May 2016
... associated with lower mortality of babies under 1 year old in high-income countries. To carry out their ... capita spending on health, researchers found that adding 1 month to the length of paid leave prevents about 8 infant ... the postneonatal period when babies range in age from 1 month to 1 year. Lead author, Arijit Nandi, is an assistant ...
News / BY: Julie Kwan, BBA, CFP, CLU, GBA May 2016
... the way life insurance policies are taxed. Effective 1 January 2017 new rules come into effect regarding the ... that permanent insurance offers will still exist after 1 January 2017. Even under the new rules, life insurance ... insurance policy it will be considered issued before 1 January 2017. Assuming you do not change it in any material ...