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News October 2009
... must be overseas to pass final exams. This results in a 1-year delay in these students continuing their residency.  ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP January/February 2009
... to vibrating hand tools. HAVS has three main components: 1. Peripheral neuropathy of the hands that produces numbness, ...
News April 2009
... World Health Day Challenge. By donating part or all of 1 day’s income, you’ll demonstrate your commitment to ...
MDs To Be / BY: Sadiq Abdulla, BA, July/August 2009
... be difficult—a problem documented from the early 1980s.[ 1 ] As a consequence, the Faculty of Medicine at the ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD November 2009
... using both hands-free phones and hand-held phones.[ 1 ]  It’s not the act of holding a cell phone to your ear ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2009
... room listening to Urinary Incontinence in the Elderly[ 1 ] while your spouse/partner frolics in the pool or lies on ... be complete without the course evaluation—score between 1 and 100, where 1 equates to a hemorrhoidectomy without anesthesia and 100 if ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kyle D. Burns, MD, FRCPC, June 2009
... delirium is a common complication of cardiac surgery.[ 1 ] Epi­sodes of delirium are associated with increased ... hallucinations have been labeled postcardiotomy delirium,[ 1 ] postoperative psychosis,[ 7 ] and acute brain syndrome.[ ... of delirium. The data gathered are displayed in  Table 1 . Delirium assessment The diagnosis of delirium was based ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stephen Wheeler, MD October 2009
... have experienced high numbers of crashes and deaths.[ 1 ] However, our service has had events in flight where a ... deck is not separated from the patient area ( Figure 1 ). On rotor aircraft ( Figure 2 ) the conditions are even ... cognitively impaired patients prior to flight (see  Table 1 ). The committee recognized that only sending physicians ...
ICBC / BY: Laura Jensen, MD, April 2009
... They were identified in 1980 by Waddell and colleagues.[ 1 ] Although these findings were initially described in ... What are the five types of nonorganic findings? 1. Tenderness—superficial, non­ana­tomic, or both: ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tarek Khalil, MPH, MD, MCFP, July/August 2009
... of novelist Henry James and philosopher William James.[ 1 ] Several decades later, in 1927, Dr Francis Peabody wrote, ... the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Exam (MCCQE) Part 1, but that examination assessed only medical knowledge and ... foreign medical schools on four continents ( Table 1 ). All subjects reported that they had not received any ...