Clinical Articles /
BY: Elspeth M. McDougall, MD, FRCSC, MHPE,
December 2015
... and ensuring the skill is being learned correctly.[ 2 ] This applies to technical skills such as suturing wounds ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Csilla Egri, MSc,
April 2015
... or swimming to Cuba to afford basic medical coverage.[ 2 ] These sensationalist stories attempt to highlight the ... service or the health care system is shown in Table 2 . Statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS version 20 ...
Beyond Medicine /
BY: Brad Fritz, MD
September 2015
... the scope and standards of insured medical services.[ 2 ] Third, the association was opposed to the commission ... merits of the proposed law. It was defeated 622 to 13.[ 2 ] Opposition by the BCMA galvanized public sentiment ... the MSA’s initial expenses, with costs repaid in 1944.[ 2 ] In what proved to be a brilliant public relations move, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Naveed Z. Janjua, MBBS, DrPH
January/February 2015
... 000 (0.66% to 1.3%) of Canadians are infected with HCV.[ 2 ] In British Columbia, approximately 80 000 people have ... 1, 60% to 70% for genotype 3, and 70% to 80% for genotype 2)[ 6 ] to new well-tolerated, short-course (8 to 12 weeks) ...
College Library /
BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS
July/August 2015
... clinical decisions and fewer adverse events.[ 2 ] Literature search services for physicians are offered by ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Bruce Hobson, MD
November 2015
... are more likely to result in sustained practice change.[ 2 ] Teaching, mentoring, and coaching can be tailored to a ... practices and procedures before adopting related changes.[ 2 ] While participating in small-group learning sessions ...
Letters /
BY: Adi Mudaliar, MD, CCFP
March 2014
... An Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin,[ 2 ] the 5695 patients who were over 70 years old had the same ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP
July/August 2014
... especially when mental illness is one of the morbidities.[ 2 ] We know that people with multimorbidity have reduced ... and management in view of a potentially shortened life. 2. A medical culture that focuses on making the ... his or her prognosis—partially because of reasons 1 and 2 but also out of a fear of seeing our own mortality when we ...
News&Notes /
BY: Benjamin Brzezynski, MA,
November 2014
... about creating option C. Roger Fisher and William Ury,[ 2 ] Harvard’s interest-based negotiation gurus, recommend ... principles: 1. Separate the people from the problem. 2. Focus on interests, not positions. 3. Invent ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Kristy Cho, MD, FRCSC
May 2014
... breast lesions seen with mammography or ultrasound.[ 2 ] Other guidelines also support preoperative CNB in the ... isolated tumor cells with a maximum cluster diameter of 0.2 mm, which can be seen on cytokeratin immunohistochemical ... tests used to analyze the data for these patients were 2-tailed, with statistical significance established at P ...