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Letters / BY: Robert Love, MD January/February 2017
... doctor looking at the computer), physicians spent nearly 2 hours on EMRs.[ 1,2 ] What can and should be done to retain and encourage a ...
Letters / BY: R.A. Rockerbie, PhD January/February 2017
... drivers involved in motor vehicle fatalities.[ 1,2 ] An increase from 8.3% in 2013 to 17.0% in 2014 occurred ... in Washington was associated with a net increase of 5.2% in fatalities. In view of the random annual variation of ...
Letters / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc January/February 2017
... in family medicine promise to fill that gap.[ 1,2 ] Most likely, education alone will not lead all ...
News / BY: Eric Wong January/February 2017
... the actual length of that disability can average between 2.1 and 3.2 years. It is never too early to start thinking about ...
News January/February 2017
... the additional cost to BC’s health care system alone is $2 million per year. Study author Dr Chris Baliski, a clinical ...
Obituaries / BY: Kevin Elwood, MD January/February 2017
... 1999 and appeared in the  CMAJ , titled “Tuberculosis 2: History of the disease in Canada.” Dr Grzybowski died ...
Obituaries / BY: Meryl Begert January/February 2017
... him. He was turned away initially, but he was called back 2 weeks later and accepted into the medical school. Herb had ...
Obituaries / BY: Eric M. Yoshida, OBC, MD, MHSc, FRCPC January/February 2017
... Roy and Reid. Dr Hashimoto was born in New Westminster on 2 January 1938 as a 3.5-lb premature baby and endured the ... money to complete his residency specialty program. After 2 years of general practice, the challenging specialty of ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2017
... symptoms. Indeed, a study at a Seattle Cancer Centre[ 2 ] showed that of 114 people who inquired into the Death ... the data from Benelux countries and the US showed only 4.2% to 6.7% of applicants for PAD see a psychiatrist[ 13 ] ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC January/February 2017
... own father repeatedly asked me to help him die in the last 2 years of his life. The truth of the matter is that the vast ... to be able to make decisions concerning his or her death. 2.    A compassionate attitude on the part of physicians ...