Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Clay Barber,
October 2011
... he hasn’t had a COPD patient admitted to hospital for 2 years for an exacerbation or flare-up. “I have been ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Aaron Talsky, MD,
January/February 2011
... ] and it is recognized increasingly in war zone injury.[ 2 ] In the US, approximately 2 million people will sustain a TBI each year, one-quarter of ... A National Institute of Health panel estimates that 2.5 to 6.5 million Americans currently live with TBI-related ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Andrew Provan,
April 2011
... meet every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning for 2 hours. Each week the groups tackle a patient case that is ... material, they can do the workshop’s several cases in a 2- or 3-hour period, rather than just doing PBL’s one case ... efficient way to learn. Ideally every week in the first 2 years of medical school would look like this: lectures are ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Bonnie Wiese, MD, MA, FRCPC
September 2011
... living in the community experience depressive symptoms,[ 2 ] with higher rates among the elderly in hospital (12% to ... delusions, marked functional impairment more than 2 months after loss, or a reaction seemingly out of ... in the elderly minor depressive episodes are common (2 weeks or longer with fewer than five symptoms of ...
Letters /
BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC
November 2011
... Health and Therapeutics Committee, COHP of BCMA.[ 2 , 3 ] In a recent trip to Turkey, I visited herbal shops, ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Nathan W. Brunner, MD, FRCPC
March 2011
... of aortic dissection is estimated to be approximately 2.9 cases per 100000 patient years.[ 1 ] Dissection occurs ... aged 60 to 80, and is slightly more common in men.[ 2 , 3 ] It is also associated with hypertension and collagen ... chronic hypertension, which is present in 75% of cases.[ 2 ] Elevated arterial pressures lead to intimal thickening, ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em)
May 2011
... theory of divine creation, or intelligent design theory.[ 2 ] This effort is not always successful, and the social and ... Probe series of textbooks in use in BC, pages 1 and 2 of every edition from grades 4 to 7 contain the following ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Philip E. Lee, MD, FRCPC,
October 2011
... with worsening of memory and other cognitive function.[ 2 ] In Alzheimer disease, atrophy of the nuclei in the cells ... Canada for patients with severe AD.[ 17 ] See Table 2 for a dosage schedule for ChEIs. Adverse events ... from the drug (18%) than from the placebo (8%) (OR 2.32, 95% CI 1.95–2.76, P < .00001).[ 11 ] Relatively few ...
Letters /
BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP
December 2011
... by the patient and staff[ 1 ] and less use of analgesics.[ 2 , 3 ] Dr Chan notes that hip fracture and cardiac ...