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Letters / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD May 2017
... term  patient medical home  have been broadly used by health care organizations in other countries and over the ...
Obituaries / BY: Jack Burak, MD July/August 2017
... witty, caring friend to so many of us physician and allied health care colleagues, and to his family. Rod followed many ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: David A. McVea, MD, PhD November 2017
... one place to another has significant consequences on their health and the health of their community. Most people travel by themselves ... pollutants that cause both short- and long-term health impacts. Passenger vehicles are also significant ...
News&Notes December 2017
... Bri­tish Columbia is on the cusp of great change. Rural health care has met the information technology age and things ... between the au­thor and a strongly supportive Northern Health Authority. It was a proposal that articulated the need to bring echocardiograms into a rural health care facility away from the regional centres. The idea ...
Letters / BY: R.A. Rockerbie, PhD January/February 2017
... The existing evidence that marijuana poses a potential health hazard to adolescents is unequivocal. In the matter of ...
Editorials / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS April 2017
... of older people, both in terms of their background health conditions and surrounding circumstances. Older people ... 14 ] We need to support physicians and all other health professionals so that they feel empowered and ready ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jacqueline Reid, BSc, BN June 2017
... Patient satisfaction is an important component of health care, particularly when an invasive procedure is ... Methods After approval was granted by the Interior Health Research Ethics Board for a retrospective chart ...
Obituaries / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD June 2017
... help, a not-for-profit group with other Canadian health care workers to focus on collaborative teaching in ... OkaZHI was born, a partnership of Okanagan and Zambian health care workers. While teaching with his team in rural ...
Premise / BY: Paul Winston, MD, FRCPC September 2017
... pain clinics, recognition of the role played by mental health, and better management of diseases such as rheumatoid ... a sports injury?” Many patients have longstanding mental health conditions that take hours to assess and treat. It is ... chronic pain disorder than to complete a detailed mental health assessment and identify the life stressors affecting ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD November 2017
... era of dwindling resources and inadequate capacity in the health care system, networks of care will be our opportunity ...