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Letters / BY: A. Krisman, MD November 2003
... 45(5):210  I agreed with Dr George Price ( BCMJ 2003; 45[2]:72-73 ) “that if good clinical teachers are to be ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Malfair, MD July/August 2003
... for assessing malignant lymph nodes is 75% to 85%. [2]  Malignant perirectal nodes are well-defined, round, and ... the low-signal muscularis propria is visualized ( Figure 2 ). T3 staging is diagnosed when the tumor penetrates the ... that appears hypointense on T1-weighted images ( Figure 2 ). A margin of 5 mm between the nearest tumor and the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hiram Mok, MA, MB BCh, BAO, FRCPC March 2003
... cultural patterns of help-seeking behaviors. Lin and Lin [2]  studied help-seeking behaviors of psychiatric patients ... representing 26% of the population in Vancouver and 15.2% in the Lower Mainland. The use of mainstream psychiatric ... characteristics of the patients are provided in  Table 2 . A total of 370 patients received services from the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brian McGowan, MD October 2003
... patients used 11 118 days (average length of stay: 20.2 days). • When long-stay patients (greater than 30 days) ... discharges occurring evenly throughout the week. In the 2 years prior, weekend discharges accounted for 16% of total ...
Letters / BY: Ralph Jones, MD May 2003
... to find Dr Bass’s exhortation on page 86 [BCMJ 2003;45(2):86]. I hope new and enthusiastic graduates don’t follow ...
Editorials / BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD December 2003
... she had had her operation and a transfusion. She spent 2 days in puppy ICU—with all the usual lines and monitors. ... Even with the best of phone calls and arrangements it took 2 weeks to get a diagnosis. Before any treatment could be ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C.J.H. van de Velde, MD, PhD, FRCS, FRCPS September 2003
... which causes high recurrence rates from 15% to 45%. [2]  Additional radiotherapy has been given in an attempt to ... showed a cumulative risk of local recurrence at 5 years of 2.7% and overall corrected survival of 87.5% at 5 years. [7] ... The actuarial cancer-specific 5-year survival was 74.2%. [8]  Aitken published a study on a series of 64 patients ...
Editorials / BY: Jack Taunton, MD December 2003
... Sports Medicine Centre Editorials Sport medicine, Part 2: Treatment (Guest editorial) ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Timothy K.S. Christie, PhD April 2003
... duty to warn, but the two are fundamentally different. [1,2]  The duty to warn occurs when the health care ...
Letters / BY: Dorothy M. Goresky, MD November 2003
... for the lazy physician who will cream off the top with a 2-minute interview and leave the more time-consuming, ...