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WorkSafeBC / BY: Jonathan Fenton, MD, FRCS, September 2013
... and active rehabilitation. The symptoms may take 2 to 3 months to settle, and the patient may need to restrict ...
President's Comment / BY: Shelley Ross, MD January/February 2013
... due to expire 31 March 2016, covered just the first 2 years of compensation, leaving the last 2 years to be negotiated.  We want to hear from you Before ... and attempt to reach an agreement on the issues. Phase 2:  If we have not reached an agreement by the end of ...
News June 2013
... UBC Faculty of Medicine have been selected to receive $6.2 million in funding from Genome Canada and the Canadian ...
Clinical Articles / BY: E.M.M. Wong, MD December 2013
... hormone levels at 1.4 pmol/L (reference range 1.2 to 8.4 pmol/L), low serum total calcium (Ca) at 1.48 mmol/L (2.10 to 2.55 mmol/L), low ionized calcium (iCa) at 0.91 mmol/L (1.17 ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Martha J. Ignaszewski, March 2013
... the Year of Janusz Korczak by the government of Poland.[ 2 ] Closer to home, the University of British Columbia, in ... manifestations of evil, unfairness, and injustice”[ 2 ] and spoke out against poverty, unemployment, and social ... as] a respected, thinking and feeling human being”[ 2 ] are considered an integral component of the modern ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Winsby, MD September 2013
... (projected cost savings of about $85 million annually).[ 2 ] To address these issues, the General Practice Services ...
Letters / BY: Ebrahim Rafi-Zadeh, MD, January/February 2013
... 8000 (with surrounding area the total population is 15000) 2 to 3 hours’ drive from Vancouver that has five GPs, ... a lot of doctors have been billing the MSP over $1 or $2 million, and a few close to $3 million. The disparity in ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) May 2013
... the death rate from infections in Canada to only 5%[ 2 ]—a far cry from the situation 100 years ago when ... Canada’s Public Health Agency estimates that only 62% of 2-year-olds are up to date with their shots.[ 4 ] It is ...
News October 2013
... tenants who participated in the study over an average of 2 years. The study, entitled “The Hotel Study: ...
Letters / BY: Shahzad Anwar, March 2013
... medicines being sold without prescriptions over the web,[ 2 ] cyberchondriacs can create immense danger to their health ...