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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 ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD June 2011
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 ...