Letters /
BY: Robert Obara, BSc, MPH,
January/February 2012
... are dedicated to international medical graduates (IMGs).[ 2 ] These IMG BC positions are offered only to BC residents ...
Editorials /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
May 2012
... the issue and made recommendations to remedy it. Within 2 weeks Dr Nigel Murray, the Fraser Health Authority CEO, ... region’s hospitals. Burnaby Hospital also underwent a 2-week “super clean” regimen, with further regional ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP
September 2012
... that recreational screen time should be no more than 2 hours per day. Currently children and youth average close ... per day with only 19% of kids aged 10 to 16 meeting the 2-hour guideline. We know (or we should know) all of this. ...
News /
BY: Sara Gilbert,
December 2012
... of medication errors occur at the interfaces of care.[ 2 ] Research has shown that approximately 50% of patients ...
Letters /
BY: Devon Christie, MD,
March 2012
... resident in 2009, and as a family physician guest at the 2-day Life Program in September 2010. InspireHealth’s ... medicine”[ 1 ] while 85% with advanced cancer use CAM.[ 2 ] InspireHealth endeavors to validate patients’ values ...
News
June 2012
... in Canada, shows that Canadians wait an average of 2 years for access to new drugs due to delays in both the ...
Editorials /
BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD
October 2012
... in many areas I had become unconsciously dyscompetent.[ 2 , 3 ] In other words, I did not know how much I did not ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Annika Klopp, BSc,
April 2012
... of health as defined by Aboriginal peoples.”[ 2 ] Despite having some background knowledge about Carrier ...
Letters /
BY: Michael J. Passmore, MD,
July/August 2012
... such as pain can alleviate behavioral disturbances.[ 2 ] While worthy of consideration, nonmedication management ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Robert Strang MD, FRCPC
December 2012
... completed jointly by the WHO Health in Prisons Programme[ 2 ] and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime resulted ... systems worldwide, the proportion of women varies between 2% and 9%, with a median of 4.3% in 2006.[ 5 ] Prisons have ...