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Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
... British Columbia, provides longitudinal care under the Medical Services Plan. To help better understand cannabis use ... of cannabis have radically different chemical composition, medical properties, and neurobiological effects. They are ... if we knew what to do.  Acknowledgments Sections of this article were published in Addiction Medicine and Therapy ( ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Benjamin Ng, July/August 2019
... by emergency medicine research assistants and trained medical students. In cases with ambiguous findings, ... reviews were completed by a panel consisting of two medical toxicologists and one emergency nurse. Ethics ... as heroin. Acknowledgments The research described in this article was made possible by the generous financial support ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Amie Padilla-Thornton, MD, FRCPC January/February 2018
... This type of discharge does not require diagnostic medical imaging. Pathologic discharge is unilateral, involves ... Wai, a radiation oncologist in Victoria, for reviewing the article and participating in our discussions of current ...
News July/August 2018
The 2017 J.H. MacDermot Prize for Excellence in Medical Journalism: Best article or essay was awarded to Drs Justin Burton, Emma Dowds, and Alexander Dodd for their article, “First aid training for seniors: Preventing falls ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Vera Frinton, MD March 2018
... to understand its complexities. Concentrating on his medical life made me realize how our mentors help shape our ... him. I have named a few of those individuals in this article. Perhaps we should all think back on our careers and ... and moving details of which I did not include in this article. George is perhaps now on his fourth medically ...
Letters / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD October 2018
... editors, designers, and all others who create the BC Medical Journal ! This journal forms a common bond for the ... writers’ love of medicine as a profession. Consider the article about early Canadian ships’ surgeons ... in “Physician suicide—where the system fails.” The article, dedicated to the memory of his brother, psychiatrist ...
Editorials / BY: Rona E. Cheifetz, MD, MEd, FRCSC, FACS January/February 2018
... affect a woman’s decision to pursue screening and seek medical attention for breast concerns and can also increase ... breast cancer focuses on issues in diagnosis. In the first article , Dr Colin Mar and colleagues provide an overview of ... to facilitate informed decision making. In the second article , Dr Amie Padilla-Thornton and colleagues review the ...
Letters / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP September 2018
I was disheartened to see that Dr Peter Rothfels, in his article “Best practices in treating noncancer pain” [ 1 ] ... those with chronic noncancer pain.” Being the chief medical officer for WorkSafeBC, I would presume this article is addressed to BC physicians and their prescribing. ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB January/February 2018
... exist in the process. In 1998, the editor of the  British Medical Journal  sent an article containing eight deliberate mistakes in design and ...
Editorials / BY: Rona E. Cheifetz, MD, MEd, FRCSC, FACS March 2018
... arm, and new evidence has shown there is no need to avoid medical procedures on the treated arm following axillary ... 2 focuses on initial breast cancer treatment. In the first article , Dr Rebecca Warburton and colleagues review the ... by the BC Cancer Surgical Oncology Network. In the second article , Drs Michelle Sutter and Alison Ye present current ...