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President's Comment / BY: Bill Cavers, MD December 2014
... playing Christmas carols at the stroke of midnight on 1 December.  Granted, this hasn’t always been received ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Karen Rideout, PhD, January/February 2014
... over 8% of BC residents experience food insecurity,[ 1 ] and food bank use is up over 20% since 2008.[ 2 ] Food ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kristy Cho, MD, FRCSC May 2014
... or performed under radiological guidance.[ 1 ] The BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) recommends using CNB to ... of open biopsy is still higher than 10% in North America.[ 1 , 5 , 7 ] After a diagnosis of breast cancer is confirmed ... study, all cases of breast cancer newly diagnosed between 1 January and 31 December 2006 were identified. A cancer was ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD September 2014
... for call-out charges: •    A physician is called at 1 p.m. and arranges to see a patient after a clinic or OR ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle D. Sherwood, MD, December 2014
... cause of severe respiratory illness across North America.[ 1 ] Members of the Picornaviridae family, enteroviruses (EVs) ... for travel to the south Atlantic region of the US 1 month earlier. Family members had similar cold-like ... vertebra (T1), with left-sided predominance ( Figure 1 ). There was T2/FLAIR hyperintensity in the C2 to T1 region ...
Letters / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI March 2014
... for breast cancer.” They should have been more specific. 1. Early detection allows breast conservation. Women need to ... reduction among women who chose to be screened in BC.[ 1 ] That is not a slight decrease. 4. Overdiagnosis is not ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Michael A Benusic, UBC Medical Class of 2014, June 2014
... environmental, socioeconomic, or health effect.”[ 1 ] The chief medical health officers of Vancouver Coastal ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mariana Brussoni, PhD, October 2014
... injury and mortality rates for older male motorcyclists.[ 1-3 ] Although Canadian statistics are not as readily ... increase not found among women or younger men ( Figure 1 ). In 2001, the hospitalization rate for older males was ... rate for males age 20 to 44 years dropped from 50.0 to 39.1 per 100 000 during the same time (average annual rate ...
News December 2014
... the Sun Life Ombudsman’s Office. Three helpful tips: 1. Be timely. Submit your claim immediately. 2. Be thorough. ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Shelley Ross, MD April 2014
... guidelines, and medical databases in patient care,[ 1 ] a percentage that has almost certainly risen since then. ...