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Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Wong, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC May 2018
... have reported similar findings.[ 19 , 20 ] This practice may have a synergistic effect on STI transmission, ... to affect the innate immune response.[ 23 ] Also, the practice of serosorting (choosing sexual partners with the ... understand the potentially synergistic effect of this practice on STI transmission. Acknowledgments We would like ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jon Havelock, MD, FRCSC May 2018
... system can be somewhat impractical in everyday clinical practice, and will be affected by a patient’s recent ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD May 2018
... with government on initiatives such as the General Practice Services and Specialist Services committees, there ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ekua Yorke, MD, FRCSC April 2018
... smelling stools have limited the use of BPD-DS in clinical practice and extensive long-term follow-up is needed. BPD-DS ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD May 2018
... was supported by the Rural and Remote Division of Family Practice and the Rural Coordinating Centre of BC, both of ...
Obituaries / BY: D.C. Matheson, MD, FRCSC May 2018
... the medical school at UBC in 1954. He did a few years of practice with his boyhood friend, Dr Hugh Pontifex, mostly in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ali Zentner, MD, FRCPC, Diplomate ABOM April 2018
... surgery.[ 16 ] Psychological fitness for surgery Best practice guidelines for assessing a patient’s psychological ... in medication in the short and long term.  Although best practice guidelines do not yet exist for psychological ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG April 2018
... from medical school. That was 47 years ago, and medical practice was … different.  In 1971, the BCMJ was already ... majority of space was taken up with that era’s pressing practice issues: a physician’s take-home income, ... no immediate related correspondence. Many of the tools of practice that we now cannot do without were either ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD April 2018
... the impact of artificial intelligence on certain areas of practice. If computers can do a better job of interpreting ... same procedures? This made me consider my job in general practice, where the undifferentiated patient with a list of ... art, based on science” and stated, “The art of the practice of medicine is to be learned only by experience; ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kevin Wing, MD, FRCSC April 2018
... has set a wait-time target of 18 weeks from general practice referral to surgery for 92% of patients. In BC, ...