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Premise / BY: Paul Winston, MD, FRCPC September 2017
... It is rare to see long-term treatment with narcotics on hospital inpatient wards. Patients with shattered limbs, ... cannot be stopped, coping strategies are suggested.  In my experience and that of my physical medicine and rehabilitation peers, rehabilitation ...
Letters / BY: Robert H. Brown, MD, CCFP April 2017
... care services, which are now only available in overcrowded hospital emergency rooms, thus helping to decongest emergency ... and contractual reality, which is outlined above. My points represent only the barest framework upon which to ...
Premise / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd November 2017
... looking for a new way to raise funds for the Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation. Hosting an educational lecture was what ... absence of his name on the book cover. “It’s not my story,” he says. “It is Anand’s story. My name is on the second page.” He also adds that he did ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Boluwaji Ogunyemi, MD March 2017
... would you most like to have? I wish I were more artistic. My brother and sister have artistic skills but that gene bypassed me. Who are your heroes? My parents, Mary and Abayomi Ogunyemi. They are the most ... as well. Many of my colleagues—physicians, nurses, hospital administrative staff, and others—espouse these ...
Obituaries / BY: John O’Brien-Bell, MB July/August 2017
... to attend London’s prestigious 400-year-old Guy’s Hospital Medical School.  In the 1950s London was a great ... to India I met Dr Norman Rigby in July 1970 when my wife and I arrived in New Westminster to start a ... the Medical Education Department was evident. In some ways my journey in medicine was influenced by the contribution and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce Hobson, MD November 2017
... medical practice. It was what I had expected from my training as a physician and what I thought physicians were ... that I realized I wasn’t going to be able to keep up my fast pace, physicians were being encouraged to switch to ... asked if I had a record of his last tetanus shot. At the hospital he had been asked about this. He thought it was at ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2017
... a flat tire? Answer: Apparently, 7½ hours. After doing hospital rounds over Christmas I decided to go on a little ... ranked in the world’s top five. Two thoughts entered my jostled brain: how is he going to land this thing, and I really wish I had finished my new will. After two nerve-wracking attempts we aborted and ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS May 2017
... a colleague and member of Doctors of BC how I feel about my year as president drawing to a close. This certainly ... hand. As a physician, now likely in the latter third of my career, I take pride in understanding and supporting our ... and, in parallel, support integrated transitions from hospital to community care. I hope that in the coming year ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD December 2017
My mother loved Christmas. She never met a Christmas ... with ornaments of historical significance, including my faded kindergarten creations. My mother sewed, ... There is camaraderie among those of us hanging out in the hospital on Christmas and New Year’s Eve that can be very ...
Letters / BY: Mike Figurski, MD, CA-CPHIMS October 2017
... a man with suspected aortic dissection to our tertiary hospital on 9 August with a full consult letter the same day ... practice for patient safety. The patients present back to my practice during the week, and I have no idea what the ... transcription takes a week. These timelines are typical in my experience. I wondered if any standards were set for ...