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Clinical Articles / BY: Bakul Dalal, MD, July/August 2016
... a rate of approximately 5 to 10 cases per million people.[ 1 ] Patients with PNH lack a protein called ... of PNH The clinical features of PNH are shown in Table 1 .[ 3 , 4 ] The most common are fatigue (typically out of ... urine), especially in the first morning sample ( Figure 1 ). Upper abdominal pain due to esophageal spasms is a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jaclyn R. Farquhar, MD July/August 2016
... rate, mirroring trends seen throughout the world.[ 1 , 2 ] The World Health Organization defines an overweight ... 2010, more than double the average increase across Canada (1.7%).[ 4 ] Statistics Canada estimates that in 2011–12 one ... local anesthesia; and patients with a BMI higher than 38.1 should have surgery only “under extraordinary ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Siavash Jafari, MD, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2016
... was 20.3%, with an average age of 16 years for first use.[ 1 ] Although marijuana use is widespread among adolescents ... of social or occupational functioning seen approximately 1 week after cessation of heavy and prolonged use.[ 2 ] ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Karen Buhler, MD July/August 2016
... and managing professional and personal progress.[ 1 ] The mentoring process is a positive one, through which ... accessibility, an open mind, and active listening skills.[ 1 ] Doctors at all stages of practice can benefit from ... eligible for taxable funding of up to $48 056. For up to 1 year either following completion of the MC4BC program or as ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP July/August 2016
... support, and functional relationships with others.[ 1 ] It is estimated that family caregivers provide 70% to 75% ... 3 ] Statistics Canada estimates that, in a given year, 1 million British Columbians actively provide care as a ... between caregiving and childrearing. 89% provide care for 1 year or longer. Caregivers who are 65 years of age and ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Gabrielle Jacobson, MScPT July/August 2016
... our Health Care Services team at 604 232-7787 or toll free 1 888 967-5377, or visit the hand-therapy page at ... at this WorkSafeBC-hosted conference.  Register before 1 October to receive the early-bird discount.  Applications ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Hortense Tabien Nsoh, MD July/August 2016
... the first to demonstrate the utility of smoke forecasts[ 1 , 2 ] for public health protection, and the first to ...
Premise / BY: A.W. Battison, MD June 2016
... Columbia are general practitioners and family physicians.[ 1 ] Recent studies have shown that only 3% of rural emergency ... Residency program based in Kelowna includes a mandatory 1-month rotation in trauma, which may be completed in Canada ... Note that applications should be submitted a minimum of 1 year prior to planned commencement of a rotation. The ...
Editorials / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP June 2016
... and continuity as more important than competency.[ 1 ] Yet physician-author Abraham Verghese probably speaks for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP June 2016
... noise abroad the negligence they have experienced.”[ 1 ] At the time he wrote this, patients were treated until ... health care utilization in the last months of life.[ 1 , 12 , 13 ] These benefits are seen in patients with ... resources. BC Physician Palliative Care Consultation Line: 1 877 711-5757 Provides toll-free 24/7 access to a palliative ...