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Premise / BY: Chloe Gao, BHSc December 2024
... care settings, and in criminal justice institutions.[ 2 ] While it can be associated with racism, it is not ... life opportunities starting from an early stage of life.[ 2 ] According to a 2005 survey, White Americans between 25 and 44 years of age have an average of 10.2 more months of education than Black Americans.[ 18 ] In ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kevin E. Liang, MD, CCFP January/February 2024
... medical equipment, such as MRIs and CT scanners.[ 2 ] Fossil fuel emissions are not only heating our planet but ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Adrian Marcuzzi, BHSc May 2024
... as being in a health state “worse than death.”[ 2 ] The wait times for elective procedures have increased ... surgical follow-up during that period increased from 41.2% to 55.0%.[ 4 ] In Alberta between 2013 and 2015, an ... were prescribed opioids. The rates of misuse varied from 2.0% to 56.3%, and the rates of addiction ranged from 0.7% to ...
Letters / BY: Margo S. Clarke, MD July/August 2024
... his proposal that Doctors of BC take over the library.[ 2 ] This is an excellent idea and provides a hopeful way ... the valuable experience of the current library employees.[ 2 ] Should Doctors of BC act on Dr Gillespie’s proposal, a ...
Letters / BY: Frank X. Scheuermeyer, MD, MHSc October 2024
... patients with chest pain, while improving over the past 2 decades,[ 1 ] still has few tools to risk stratify patients ... the provincial introduction of the VCPR to physicians[ 2 ] and a decrease in hospital admissions, but there are ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB March 2024
... lower incidences of posttraumatic stress disorder.[ 2 ] When dealing with the illness and death of my patients, I ...
Back Page / BY: Li (Danny) Liang, MD, BEng, CCFP-EM September 2024
... weekends in a row. To add to this, shift work is a class 2 carcinogen, according to the World Health Organization.[ 1 ...
Letters / BY: Liz Ewart, MD, FCFP November 2024
... a single appointment: (1) nurse and physician assessment, (2) breast diagnostic imaging and results, and (3) same-day ... (one very close to retirement) and the equivalent of 2.5 full-time equivalent general practitioners in oncology. ...
Premise / BY: Clara MacDonald, MSc, MD April 2024
... been associated with predisposition to medical errors,[ 2 , 7 ] potentially leading to a cycle of harm for vulnerable ... primarily medical errors secondary to human fallibility,[ 2 , 7 , 8 ] there is increasing recognition that second ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Eileen M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP October 2024
... and Management for Community-Dwelling Older Adults ,[ 2 ] published in June 2021 for use by primary care ... mobility, and osteoporosis; and the home environment).[ 2 , 3 ] If available, suggesting a Falls Prevention Clinic[ 4 ...