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President's Comment / BY: Charles Webb, MBChB April 2016
... themes for General Council. The themes this year are health consequences of climate change, integrated care (lessons learned from the US), and physician health and well-being: resilience in medical training and ...
News May 2016
... McGill University and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health shows paid maternity leave policies may help prevent ... such as gross domestic product and per capita spending on health, researchers found that adding 1 month to the length ... is an assistant professor at McGill’s Institute for Health and Social Policy and the Department of Epidemiology, ...
Letters / BY: Justine Spencer, MD October 2016
... emotional world of many of our patients. Trauma, mental health issues, and difficult social situations are common reasons why a patient seeks care from their health care provider. We are trained, and even selected, by ...
Letters / BY: Shirin Rostamkalaee, MD June 2016
... they would also be able to fill the gaps in Canada’s health care system. To sum up, there are many qualified IMGs ...
Proust for Physicians September 2016
... Hard work and commitment to im-proving community health. Who are your favorite writers? Roderick L. Haig-Brown ...
News March 2016
... Program, an online course delivered by the Provincial Health Services Authority. To learn more about any REAP ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD May 2016
... glance at the referral form and then send it back to the health region for booking. Another similar frustration is to ...
News October 2016
... improve patient safety, and help avoid fraud and misuse of health care services. If a patient presents a CareCard for health services after February 2018, the patient must also ... of photo ID or two pieces of ID along with their personal health number. It is the duty of the health care provider to ...
News / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) June 2016
... shortages as global temperatures rise.[ 2 ] The human health implications of water scarcity are already upon us and ... installed in buildings.[3] Currently, the BC Ministry of Health is drafting a manual for greywater use in composting ... the other hand, the use of reclaimed water may carry human health risks, although the danger is thought to be low.[ 6 ] ...
News January/February 2016
The Canadian Lung Association and Aeri Health have introduced a new mobile app (Aeri COPD) for ... that patients can use to keep track of their day-to-day health and COPD symptoms and record potential behaviors or ... episodes. Patients can use the app to store historical health information and share it with their physician and ...