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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 ...
News March 2013
... 250 952-2867 •    Elsewhere in BC, toll free: 1 800 554-0225 News BC Palliative Care Benefits Program update ...
News&Notes / BY: J.C.A. Morrant, MBBS, DObst, RCOG, DPM, FRCPC, June 2013
... for its sardonic humor about eighteenth-century life.[ 1 ] She married Aléxandre-Jean-Baptiste Piochard d’Arblay, ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: J. Robinson, MD, October 2013
... in the Journal of the American Medical Association.[ 1 ]  In this trial, 43 patients with chronic tendinopathy ... to have a greater rate of recurrence of their condition at 1 year (54% versus 12% in the placebo injection group).  The ...
News / BY: Anne I. Clarke, MD January/February 2013
... Harvey, Eddy S. Lang, Jason R. Frank (eds). 2011. ISBN 978-1-926588-09-4. Kindle edition (Amazon): 636 pages. $50.06. ...
Letters / BY: Ralph Jones, MD April 2013
... issue [ Rebooting the BCMA.  BCMJ  2013;55(1):10 ].  In their letters, Dr Busser and Dr Webb are asking ...