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Shared Care Committee / BY: Jiwei Li, MD March 2022
... not be so good. Sadly, this is the situation for over 1.5 million Canadians who live with frailty, a state of ... fit in a person’s purse or pocket by printing an 8.5 × 11 page and folding it in half twice. Color and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patrick H.P. Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2022
... age leads to the highest rates of chronic infection.[ 5 , 6 ] Other modalities of HBV transmission include ... chronic infection, but this risk decreases to less than 5% in patients who are exposed to HBV as an adult. In the ... mg/24 h, moderate dipstick proteinuria, low phosphate < 2.5 mg/dl, or dialysis patients).[ 20 ] Pegylated interferon ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC November 2022
... called Human Motivation. The professor, Richard Koestner,[ 5 ] taught us how autonomous motivation can be either ...
Premise / BY: Karen Trollope-Kumar, MD, PhD, CCFP April 2022
... their first diagnosis by their primary care physician.[ 5 ] Yet too many physicians feel unprepared to diagnose and ... 6 , 7 ] Canadian medical students receive only 3 to 5 hours of education about eating disorders in their ...
Obituaries / BY: Jack and Ruth Albrecht September 2022
... 1924 and Bill Fairbank left the world on 25 February 2022, 5 days after experiencing a cerebral hemorrhage. His ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marshall Dahl, MD, PhD, FRCPC January/February 2022
... of 25 or 50 mg daily, risk of meningioma increased from 4.5 to 23.8 per 1 000 000 patient years compared to the control group.[ 5 ] This has led to discussions about avoiding the use of cyproterone or limiting the dose to no more than 12.5 mg daily [ Table 1 ].[ 6 ] Masculinizing endocrine ...
Obituaries / BY: Young Family June 2022
... fight in World War II, 14-year-old Archie rose each day at 5:30 a.m. to deliver milk and then rushed off to University ... year he began medical school at McGill University after a 5-day bus ride from Vancouver to Montreal. He interned at ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC October 2022
... in a post-Roe America. It could be devastating. Take IVF,[ 5 ] for example. If state laws recognize an embryo as a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Emily Wiesenthal, BA March 2022
... both, neither, or anywhere else along the gender spectrum.[5] Many diverse, culturally specific terms are used by ... identity aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth.[5] “Dysphoria” refers to the discomfort or distress that ... with a finite number of eggs, which diminish over the next 5 decades. Therefore, cisgender women and gender-diverse ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Olivia Sampson, MD, CCFP, MPH, FRCPC, ABPM December 2022
... Physicians are available Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. We will call you back within 2 hours. If your call is ...