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Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2010
... with some summer sessions, I was able to do my pre-med in 2 years. What drew you into psychiatry? It wasn’t something ... Abstract at:  http://jpc.sagepub.com/content/1/2/119.abstract ].  The BC pilot studies will demonstrate ... the work. You’ve been doing the job of pres­ident for 2 weeks now—how’s it going? I’ve been told by ...
News / BY: Jeremy Daniels, March 2010
... what physicians tell them about diagnosis and treatment.[ 2 ] Lacking from the book is a definition of pain itself. I ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD June 2010
... used to say that the worst part about being on 1-in-2 call was that they missed out on half the good cases. Of ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Kukuh Noertjojo, MD, October 2010
... patellar tendinosis[ 1 ] and chronic elbow tendinosis,[ 2 ] during arthroscopic rotator cuff repair,[ 3 ] during ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel L. Metzger, MD, FAAP, FRCPC January/February 2010
... is 21.7 per 100000 per year.[ 1 ] Using 2008 census data,[ 2 ] prevalence in this age group in British Columbia is ... publicity has been given to the rising incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in youth and young adults in North America, ... in our province, but the fact that there has also been a 2% to 3% annual increase in the incidence of T1D over the ...
News&Notes / BY: Eugene Leduc, MD April 2010
... our total time commitment to the project will exceed 2 years. This includes our attendance at ViVa meetings 1 year ... landed on the east coast of Tan­na, then traveled another 2 hours on the bumpy road to Lenakel Hospital.  The young ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, July/August 2010
Recent PITO articles[ 1 , 2 ] have focused on PITO’s emerging program to ex­pand ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lauren MacDonald, BScH, MSc, December 2010
... long-term risks to their health and well-being.[ 2 , 6-8 ] These “late effects” may not become apparent ... neoplasms over the normal population was 1.3% at 15 years, 2.5% at 20 years, and 4% at 25 years.  The most common ... females only (requires ovarian stimulation over at least 2 weeks prior to starting chemo­therapy or radiation, so it ...
Back Page / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD March 2010
... evacuated a blood clot) when they trepanned his skull.[ 2 ] Then they sewed his scalp back on by the banks of Jacques ...
Letters May 2010
... author of this article on medical ethics [ BCMJ 2010;52(2):92-94 ] seems a little confused. It seems that she argues ... (1) competence is irrelevant because it cannot be proven, (2) autonomy in euthanasia cannot exist because the patient is ...