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Editorials / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) July/August 2023
... and that’s what we’re going to continue to do.”[ 1 ] While a measure of self-congratulation is understandable ... Meanwhile, as public health care is tanking, as of 1 April 2023, contraception will be provided free to all. ... lion’s share of health spending to such care. Yet in BC, 1 million unattached patients are unable to access ...
Premise / BY: Jan Hajek, MD October 2023
... help promote human rights, equity, and social justice.[ 1 ] Most physicians in Canada enjoy consuming meat, eggs, and ... lead to less prejudicial attitudes toward other people.[ 1 ] As physicians, we need to expand our circle of moral ...
Obituaries / BY: Bob Newman, MD March 2023
... pay off. The clam factory at Five Islands used to pay $1 per bushel, and Dale would often get $5 to $8 per day ... his 10 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. The 1 July party at “Gumbo Gulch” was not to be missed. He ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Anton R. Miller, MBChB, FRCPC June 2023
... up to 9% of the general population of children in Canada.[ 1 , 2 ] The terms neurodisability and neurodevelopmental ... to needed services and supports. Our aims are threefold: (1) to raise awareness among physicians in BC of the vital ... emerged from activities undertaken to address barriers 1 and 2: a scoping review of the relevant literature,[ 13 ] ...
Premise / BY: Susan M. Lee, MD, FRCPC, MAS November 2023
... three of her patients died of nosocomial COVID, all within 1 week. To the undiscerning observer looking at the ... levels of COVID transmission in the inpatient setting.[ 1 ] The original search of Medline, Embase, and LitCovid was ... (larger and smaller). SARS-CoV-2 is thought to be around 0.1 μm. All 11 studies showed that portable HEPA purifiers ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Kevin E. Liang, MD, CCFP May 2023
... to constitute 4.6% of the global carbon footprint.[ 1 ] When compared with the health care systems of 47 ... to the Fraser Canyon and has an estimated population of 1.9 million.[ 8 ] We also estimated the prevalence of overuse ... PharmaNet data for Fraser Health region residents from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2021 via the Health Data ...
Obituaries / BY: Nis Schmidt, MD October 2023
... is a line drawing of an injection procedure [ Figure 1 ]. Over the years he built a catalogue of such drawings ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Patrick Wong January/February 2023
... calling WorkSafeBC’s Health Care Programs department at 1 866 244-6404 and pressing “2” or by emailing ... please contact WorkSafeBC Payment Services promptly at 1 888 422-2228. If you are unsure whether you were paid the ... surgeon needs to call WorkSafeBC Health Care Programs at 1 866 244-6404 and press “2” or email ...
Editorials / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD May 2023
... identify as being from Chinese or South Asian heritage.[ 1 ] We have come a long way since 1922, when Dr Victoria ... of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine.[ 2 ] This was only 1 year before the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923, which ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: David F. Schaeffer, MD, FRCPC July/August 2023
... which the BC Colon Screening Program has adopted.[ 1 ] Pathogenesis of colorectal cancer There are three ... lesions, and traditional serrated adenomas [ Table 1 ];[ 2 ] and hereditary predisposition syndromes (e.g., ... mutations in BRAF and KRAS play a prominent role [ Figure 1 ].[ 4 ] Each of the overarching pathways gives rise to ...