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News June 2014
... from the site or, if you prefer, call 604 736-5551 or 1 800 665-2262 to have it mailed to you. News Doctors of BC ...
News / BY: Ian A. Cameron, MD, October 2014
... Peter Johnson. Victoria: Heritage House,  2013. ISBN 978-1-927527-31-3. Paperback, 312 pages. $22.95. Peter Johnson is ...
Premise / BY: Martin Dawes, MBBS, MD, FRCGP, December 2014
... quality (so cost-effectiveness cannot be determined).”[ 1 ] The resulting recommendation was to rebuild physician ... doctor writes prescriptions for 233 different drugs within 1 year.[ 11 ] This is equivalent to 30% of the available ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jon Slater, MD, FRCPC, MBA, January/February 2014
... privileges and monitor the competence of practitioners.[ 1 ] In British Columbia, the responsibility for privileging ... of practitioners involved was relatively small (about 1% of the province’s radiologists), the effect on public ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Celina Dunn, MD, CCFP, CIME April 2014
1.    A physician reviews each medical report you submit ... and their duration. (e)    Limitations. Answers 1.    (b)  False . WorkSafeBC automatically processes and ... wouldn’t allow it.              Example 1: weight-bearing on an unstable fracture.  ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James G. Huang, MD, PGDipSurgAnat, FRACS, September 2014
... identify patients as likely responders or nonresponders.[ 1 ] Prostate cancer biomarkers can be sourced from serum, ... of biomarkers typically passes through five phases:[ 3 ] 1.    Preclinical exploratory studies. 2.    Clinical ... to cause an increase of more than 15% in serum PSA within 1 hour, and could thus lead to a false-positive test result.[ ...
Obituaries / BY: Dirk Laudan, November 2014
... He was 81. Dr Laudan was born in Milden, Saskatchewan, on 1 November 1931, the son of Dr Harry Laudan and Ethel Laudan ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kostas Ioannou, MD, FRCPC, March 2014
... not assay a mountain of ore by testing one rock.”[ 1 ] Jeff Holter’s words resonate with many physicians who ... arrhythmias.  Jeff Holter Jeff Holter was born on 1 February 1914 in Helena, Montana. He was a science ... conduction testing with Dr Joseph Gengerelli of UCLA.[ 1,2 ] Although he never pursued a medical degree, his ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Eleni Galanis, MD, MPH, FRCPC June 2014
...  infections may result in Guillain-Barré syndrome (0.1% of cases). Key clinical characteristics such as those summarized in  Table 1  can help differentiate between types of enteric ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Karen Takai, MSc September 2014
On 1 June of this year, WorkSafeBC launched a new contract for ... treatment--in the form of blocks--through assessment (1 week), treatment (6 weeks), and extension (4 weeks). ... longer treatment blocks and resources through assessment (1 week), treatment (8 weeks), and two possible extensions (4 ...