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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC November 2010
... conviction are effective in preventing impaired driving.[ 2-6 ] However, the injured impaired drivers treated in our ... Columbia from 1999 to 2003.[ 9 ]  Follow-up over a 41/2 year period indicated that 30.7% of the injured impaired ... where it is required by law.”[ 12 ]  While section 257(2) of the Criminal Code protects medical practitioners from ...
News / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) January/February 2010
... thousands of the machines throughout the UK in the next 2 months. —Lloyd Oppel, MD Chair, Council on Health ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ellamae Stadnick MD, MSc, FRCPC, May 2010
... time in British Columbia in 2007 was 141 days ( Figure 2 ), with longer wait times for male patients (average 167 ... who are universal recipients.  On average patients spend 2 weeks in the hospital after transplantation, including 3 to ... congenital heart defects not amenable to surgical repair.[ 2 ]  Predictors of mortality in this patient population ...
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 ...