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 ...
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, ...
Editorials /
BY: Jack Taunton, MD
December 2003
... Sports Medicine Centre Editorials Sport medicine, Part 2: Treatment (Guest editorial) ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Norman Phillips MSc
July/August 2003
... clinical trials at reducing colorectal cancer mortality. [2-4] FOB is not very effective at detecting polyps and ... using data obtained from the BC Cancer Registry. Figure 2 shows the obtained agreement between model-predicted and ... rates of endoscopy used in the model are given in Table 2 [10] and are based on reported rates from endoscopy ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Terry Curran, MD, FRCP
March 2003
... trading equates to buy-and-hold, which is a good habit. 2. Asset mix allocation The term asset mix allocation ... can be used to pay for children’s university education. [2] If you are looking to face education payments 10 to 15 ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: M. Ryan, MSc
November 2003
... Results Data were recorded from 1265 runners over the 2-year period. In 2000, 844 questionnaires were completed, ... noted in the first year of the study, with 635 (75.2%) females and 205 (24.3%) males participating (4 runners ... = .002), and a BMI between 20 and 26 (F = 69.8%, M = 30.2%; P = .003). In addition, more women than men (F = ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Stuart Johnston, MD
May 2003
... treatment, and monitoring • Delivering medical services [2,3] Telehealth is a technology that, theoretically, can make ... care professionals, and the entire health care system. [2] Clinical applications of telehealth technology remain more ... Lake. That telehealth line has been in place for at least 2 years. Discussions with the emergency room physician who ...