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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Karen Buhler, MD July/August 2016
... work together to develop careers and abilities.[ 2 ] The GPSC offers BC family doctors mentorship ...
Obituaries / BY: John P. Whitelaw, MDCM July/August 2016
... Atlantic to the Caribbean, where they stayed for nearly 2 years. During that time Dr Hammond worked in Tortola, ...
Obituaries / BY: John O’Brien-Bell, MB July/August 2016
... of the prostate. He succumbed to his final illness 2 months after it started, while holidaying in Hawaii. Dr ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP July/August 2016
... to 75% of care for people receiving home care in Canada.[ 2 ] Based on the 2012 General Social Survey,[ 3 ] Statistics ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Gabrielle Jacobson, MScPT July/August 2016
... duties and hours while he continued hand therapy. After 2 additional weeks of progressive strengthening and ... limitations. The hand therapist continued to treat Don for 2 weeks beyond his return to work to maximize recovery and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Hortense Tabien Nsoh, MD July/August 2016
... smoke is a complex mixture of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), carbon monoxide (CO), volatile organic compounds ... formation of ground-level ozone (O 3 ) on sunny days. PM 2.5 is the principal public health threat from short-term ... precipitators can lower indoor concentrations of PM 2.5 and reduce symptoms. Their effectiveness depends on the ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD July/August 2016
... on renal dialysis. He was dialyzed 188 times, and after 2 years he returned to his beloved Lillooet. In 1973 he was ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB June 2016
... come. I didn’t push it, and she passed away peacefully 2 days later. Hopefully she heard what I was trying to tell ...
Premise / BY: A.W. Battison, MD June 2016
... 12% have 24-hour access to an on-call general surgeon.[ 2 ] Therefore, it is vital for rural physicians to have the ...
Editorials / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP June 2016
... dealing so often with death, my ignorance felt shameful.[ 2 ] What Dr Verghese expresses here is the helplessness a ...