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Back Page / BY: Li (Danny) Liang, MD, BEng, CCFP-EM September 2024
... 2 carcinogen, according to the World Health Organization.[ 1 ] These are but some of the not-so-glamorous aspects of ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC November 2024
... epidemiologic egotism compels us to scoff at the “ N of 1,” it is hard to deny the influence of a poignant story ... served, Canada during times of war, conflict, and peace.[ 1 ] Remembrance Day, originally called Armistice Day, was ... the agreement to end the First World War, which was struck 1 year prior.[ 1 ] In Canada, we began our honored tradition ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... systems that cause harm with no accountability.”[ 1 ] When certain language or problems are repeatedly ... care research, such as through Elders’ teachings.[ 1 , 7 , 8 ] Colonialized institutions and research practices ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC May 2024
... decision, both privately and in the pages of the BCMJ .[ 1,2 ] There is minimal information about the closure on the ... library services (including salaries and benefits) was $1 863 000, or $126.54 per active registrant, based on 14 723 ... to the editor that Doctors of BC take over the Library.[ 1 ] I am curious to hear from more of our readers about what ...
Premise / BY: B.R. Ohata, MD, CM July/August 2024
... access to health care resources has been observed.[ 1 ] In response to these challenges, the Real-Time Virtual ... a connective tissue disease–associated rash. As well, 1 month prior, the patient had been hospitalized at a ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Eileen M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP October 2024
... in older adults; they also cost the BC health care sector $1.1 billion in 2018.[ 1 ] The BCMJ has published many articles about falls ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC December 2024
... where she describes establishing her coaching voice.[ 1 ] It’s true that Coach Campbell is not the first woman to ...
Letters / BY: Mark Mallet, MD, CCFP March 2024
... 2023 BC Coroners Service Death Review Panel report[ 1 ] in his editorial [ BCMJ 2023;65:365-366]: “as many as ... 2019. The final result—a range of 125 000–225 000[ 1 ]—is of clearly limited statistical value, and yet the ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC June 2024
The 2024 federal budget[ 1 ] was released on 16 April 2024. It includes major spending ... will spend more this year to service the growing $1.4 trillion national debt than on health care.[ 2 ] To help ...
Clinical Articles, Clinical Images / BY: Samantha R. Saravana-Bawan, MD, FRCP July/August 2024
... medication, which has a known twin risk of 3% to 7%.[ 1 ] Estimated gestational age was 5 weeks 3 days. ... rarest forms of multiple gestation, occurring in less than 1 in 30 000 naturally conceived pregnancies.[ 2 ] The ...