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Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS November 2009
... colon resections for both benign and malignant disease.[ 1-3 ] Postoperative complications are reduced and length of ... one or more of the exclusion criteria listed in  Table 1 . Nurses in the pre-admission clinic, recovery room, and ... BMI was 28 (range 20–45), mean ASA class was 2 (range 1–3), and 60% of the patients were male. Seventeen patients ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD April 2009
... the philosophy of naturopathic treatment is threefold: 1.  Vis medicatrix naturae : the body has the inherent ... were moved from over-the-counter status to Schedule 1. In December 2006 the College of Naturopathic Physicians of ... medicines, but for unrestricted access to all Schedule 1 and 2 drugs, which is identical to the formulary access of ...
Back Page / BY: Maggie Watt, MD, CCFP, September 2009
... care unit agonizing over our son (on C-section post-op day 1), she told me to wait another 30 minutes for my measly ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC December 2009
... in 2006 and that 168 (36.7%) were alcohol-related.[ 1 ] At least once every 3 days a physician in BC has to tell ... have been rising and by 2006 exceeded 1999 levels.[ 1 ]  An external mid-term re­view of Canada’s Road Safety ... drinking in the past 30 days rose from 14.7% in 2005 to 18.1% in 2008 (representing over 4 million drivers).[ 6 ] ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC January/February 2009
... the response from the authors, and the editorial note.[ 1 ] There was an apology regarding patient consent for ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Wilma Arruda, MD, May 2009
... is coming in for a follow-up appointment. He is just over 1 year old and I’ve been following him frequently over the ... young people in 21 nations of the industrialized world.[ 1 ] More disturbing is that Canada ranks below average in the ... In a European study this loss of human capital reflected 1.4% of the GDP or €141 billion per year. In BC the BC ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, June 2009
Two new incentives launched 1 June 2009 by the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) ...
News October 2009
... Insurance BC, 604 683-7151 in the Lower Mainland and 1 800 663-7100 elsewhere in BC. The lab results delivery ...
Obituaries / BY: Henry Pauls, MD, March 2009
... his MD from the University of Alberta in 1949, in­terned 1 year at the University Hospital in Edmonton, then entered ...
Letters / BY: Karen Fediuk, RD, July/August 2009
... Columbians limit consumption of all types of canned tuna[ 1 ] whereas Health Canada currently recommends limiting ...