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Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD June 2013
... drugs, disability forms, or medical marijuana.[ 1 ] The purpose of this editorial is not to question the ... this editorial is about you, the physician, who on 1 April 2014 will be handed the spoils of the failed Health ... Admittedly, completing and processing the required forms B(1) and B(2) can be cumbersome and slow. Once authorized, the ...
News&Notes / BY: Graham White, MD, October 2013
... W Broadway  Vancouver BC V6J 5A4  604 736-5551 or 1 800 665-2262 News&Notes Why an audit? The audit process in ...
MDs To Be / BY: Joshua Lai, BSc, January/February 2013
... heart pounding to the beat of Korotkoff’s rhythm. Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3, no sound—Phase 4. Finally, a reading ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD April 2013
... Among the general population this occurs in 1 in 133 patients. If there is a family history the incidence jumps to 1 in 22. Treatment of celiac disease requires strict ... auto­immune illnesses such as hypo­thyroid­ism, type 1 diabetes, connective tissue diseases, and also preterm ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2013
Annual Business Meeting and General Assembly Saturday, 1 June 2013 Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver Like last year, the ... Pacific Hotel on downtown Vancouver’s waterfront. Held 1 June 2013, the meeting was chaired by Dr Gran­ger Avery. ... and suggested that the BCMA Finance Committee set aside $1 million to $4 million to resolve the issue. Members had no ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM December 2013
... and gastric mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma.[ 1 ] Standard noninvasive tests for the diagnosis of H. pylori ... while screening using UBT costs the province an estimated $1.2 million per year. An algorithmic approach using serology ... care cost savings.  Repeat UBT tests performed within a 1-year period suggest treatment failure or reinfection. H. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Natalie Drouillard, MD, March 2013
... agnosia, or disturbance in executive functioning.[ 1 ] Of those patients with dementia, more than 90% will ... 23 ] but consider doses in the range of risperidone 0.5 to 1.5 mg per day, olanzapine 5 to 10 mg per day, or quetiapine ... has been previously described, and follow-up intervals at 1 week post initiation of treatment and 10 days after dose ...
News May 2013
... un­der provincial and territorial health programs. As of 1 April, regular members and special constables who reside in ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Jonathan Fenton, MD, FRCS, September 2013
... more information contact Jocelyne Fidyk: 604 231-8651 or 1 877 231-8765 • Jocelyne.Fidyk@worksafebc.com ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Rana S. A. Khan, MBBS, January/February 2013
... duration of postoperative ileus, and pulmonary function.[ 1 ] Total morbidity and local (surgical) morbidity were ... the disease characteristics summarized in  Table 1 . Image-based preoperative and postoperative TNM staging ... performed 78 right, 42 sigmoid, 5 left, 2 subtotal, 1 transverse, and 1 segmental colon resection, as well as 6 ...