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Premise / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) January/February 2024
... or suffering to have timely and ongoing access to a health care professional who knows them and with whom they ... on science and technology and toward the side of health care we family physicians used to excel at, and a ... (familiarity that takes a few years to develop), improves health outcomes over a simple diagnosis and treatment by a ...
Letters / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD May 2024
... Medical Association or BCMA). At that time, the Physician Health Program was in danger; the College decided it no ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Abdullah Alenezi, MD, FRCPC June 2024
... disability and places a significant burden on the health care system and economy. Osteoarthritis is a common ... an off-label use and is not available in the public health care system in BC, though it is offered in some ... this therapy is not currently offered in the public health care system in BC and is actively under clinical ...
Letters / BY: Rylen A. Williamson, BSc September 2024
... tool endorsed provincially through the BC Ministry of Health and nationally through the Concussion Harmonization ... Hospital Investigator, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia Letters Physician ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC November 2024
Dr Ahmer A. Karimuddin Health care in British Columbia and across Canada has been ... patients, and with those who have responsibility for the health care system. Especially if we are willing to do the ... and togetherness, that is the future we will build for our health care system. When our patients come to us in distress, ...
Letters / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH, FRCPC March 2024
... requiring action across a continuum including mental health, trauma prevention, addiction treatment, and harm ... examine the population at risk. For example, using linked health data sources, a team of BC researchers identified a ... criteria for a substance use disorder in administrative health data are also at risk: people fitting this description ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jae Ford, MD, MPH May 2024
... carry. Clinicians can also send ticks to the BCCDC Public Health Laboratory for free identification and pathogen ... Information about laboratory tests available at the Public Health Laboratory can be found at www.elabhandbook.info . —Jae Ford, MD, MPH Resident Physician, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, UBC —Quinn Stewart, MPH ...
Letters / BY: Eastside Illicit Drinkers Group for Education July/August 2024
... is unable to regularly access oral thiamine from health care providers or MAP services, choosing instead to ... are Indigenous, the potential for oral thiamine to reduce health harms and associated costs for drinkers not presently covered by First Nations Health Benefits will remain unrealized in the absence of ...
Joint Collaborative Committees / BY: Alex Chan, PhD, MD, FRCSC October 2024
... Canadian benchmarks. In 2021, the Canadian Institute for Health Information reported that only 65% of hip replacements ... 1 ] Lengthy wait times are associated with decreased health-related quality of life, increased pain severity, and ... times must be evidence informed and codesigned with local health professionals. The Shared Orthopaedic Referral and ...
Letters / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC December 2024
... thereafter with the provincial laboratory and public health soon led to the discovery of a large community ...