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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM September 2018
... post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN). PHN is more common in older people, affecting 4% to 15% of zoster cases in people aged 50 to 59, 7% to 26% of cases in people aged 60 to 69, and 14% to 29% of cases in people 70 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patricia Caddy, MD October 2018
... included primary care physicians, trainees, and people with opioid use disorder throughout BC. Based on the ... The needs of primary care physicians, trainees, and people with opioid use disorder were considered during ... included primary care physicians, trainees, and people with opioid use disorder throughout BC. Feedback was ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD October 2018
... Should we pick up some of that Indica Bob likes?” Will people go to cannabis tastings or on cannabis tours? Will ... has in the alcohol industry? Most would have to agree that people who make wine for a living do a much better job than the average garage vintner. As a result, will people be willing to pay a premium for quality, like they do ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP October 2018
... do? 1.    Recognize that the health care system and the people it cares for are complex. Complex systems evolve over ... person but not another, or it may cause side effects. How people react to the same infection, treatment, or trauma is ... While we argue about the highest standard of privacy, people willingly give up some of this right daily to interact ...
Letters / BY: Zafar Essak, MD October 2018
... courage as a fundamental value at the company. We want people to speak the truth, and we say, ‘To disagree ...
Proust for Physicians October 2018
... is your most marked characteristic? I am not very tall! People most often tell me I am always calm (even in a crisis) ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC October 2018
... of as the provision of sterile injection supplies to people who use drugs or supervised consumption sites, harm ... and delivery of policy, programs, and services to benefit people who use substances, their families, and the community ... needle exchange in BC. From 2007 to 2016, HIV diagnoses in people who inject drugs declined from 118 to 16 cases, ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD October 2018
... the Order of Canada for “her tireless work on behalf of people with kidney disease, both nationally and ...
News October 2018
The Alzheimer Society of Canada’s Advisory Group of people with dementia has created a Canadian Charter of Rights for People with Dementia. Although people with dementia hold the same rights as every Canadian ...
News October 2018
... masters athletes should stop exercising. She recommends people see their doctor for regular checkups, including blood ...