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Letters / BY: Glenn A. Scheske, MD, FRCPC March 2012
As I was perusing my December issue of the BCMJ, I came across the article “A ... I was also “newly minted,” having just completed my rotating internship at Vancouver General Hospital earlier that year.  At the tender age of 25 I found ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC May 2012
I am pleased that Dr Malthouse took interest in my letter on homeopathic medicine. The safety of homeopathic ... with his medical career be­ginning at a homeopathic hospital in Mu­nich. He concluded the evidence from ... like to return to one of the homeopathic medicines in my previous letter, Aconite 30C ( Figure 1 ). It is an ...
Letters / BY: H. Martin Gough, MD October 2012
... ago, each day I made a point of visiting those patients in hospital on whom I had operated, until they were discharged. ... them and knowing they had not been forgotten or abandoned. My wife was recently in hospital with a fracture of the neck ... her at all during the time she remained in the hospital—my wife certainly has no recollection of having been seen by ...
Editorials April 2011
... yet anyone walking the corridors of any reasonably sized hospital will pick up snippets of information that they ... these requests by saying that I did not have consent from my patients to share their information with a market research ... response, but didn’t get one, and can only assume that my e-mail address has been removed from another list (or ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2011
... That was the sound of the sucker punch contacting my skull. Those who know me well would likely suggest more of ... “Pinch me,” in the July/August 2010  BCMJ  outlining my reasons for distrusting government. I felt a little ... in Langley also provide emergency coverage to Chilliwack Hospital they won’t have anyone left on a MOCAP contract.  ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Clay Barber, January/February 2011
... required to help me figure out the best care plan for my patient right away.” The RACE program has allowed ... phone access, I would have been admitting more patients to hospital and doing more referrals,” adds McCracken.  With ...
Obituaries / BY: Brian Day, MB October 2011
... Upon returning to BC he interned at Vancouver General Hospital and did his residency in ortho­paedic surgery, ... on the strong roots he had helped create. He was also, to my knowledge, the only person to reject a nomination as ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Peter K.Y. Chan, MD, FRCPC, October 2011
... is beyond the scope of this article. How do I know my patient is delirious? Delirium is diagnosed according to ... progress to acute anxiety and then paranoia. How do I know my patient doesn’t have dementia or depression or both? ... to some of the atypical antipsychotics. Vancouver General Hospital’s Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service has vast ...
News / BY: Arlene Cristall, MSc, December 2011
... 110 lbs (BMI percentile: 11). “At first I was like ‘oh my goodness I have to lose those 50 lbs’ and now I am ... swim, rollerblade so good now. I might even be better than my friends. This website helped me during those hard months ... Coordinator Centre for Healthy Weights, BC BC Children’s Hospital News Book review: Overweight: What Kids Say. ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Peter Allen, MD, November 2011
Dr Allen worked as a cardiac surgeon at Vancouver General Hospital and retired as emeritus clinical professor of ... fear? Departing this world before I have achieved all my plans, simple as they are, to make a better world. What is ... is your greatest regret? Not having spent more time with my family during the early days of practice. What is your ...