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Letters / BY: Julie Leising, MD, FRCPC September 2022
... to TGNC youth when affirming care is delayed or denied.[ 4 ] While appealing for evidence-based care, these letters ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2022
... it was like coming home in a way. I also volunteered for 4 years with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, granting terminally ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patrick H.P. Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2022
... In Canada, up to 480 000 people may be infected.[ 3 , 4 ] The population groups with the highest infection rates ... Indigenous people, and people who inject drugs.[ 4 ] In BC, local epidemiology is driven primarily by a large ... type B (DTaP-HB-IPV-Hib) vaccine series given at ages 2, 4, and 6 months. The prophylaxis given at birth to high-risk ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Emily Ertel, MD November 2022
... and deal with the common bile duct stones afterward.[ 1-4 ] Patients with a low probability of common bile duct ... to have ERCP first, followed by cholecystectomy.[ 1-4 ] Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography or endoscopic ... (61.9%) had an intraoperative cholangiogram, and 11 (52.4%) had a subsequent ERCP; therefore, ERCP was avoided in 10 ...
Letters / BY: Andrew Kotaska, MD April 2022
... and Mycoplasma , whereas metronidazole does not.[ 2 , 4 ] We have not typically performed fetal cultures for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mira Keyes, MD, FRCPC September 2022
... programs[ 3 ] and new electronic health record systems,[ 4 ] which all physicians must address, the frequent exposure ... work atmosphere was mostly hectic and chaotic [ Figure 4 ]; these results were significantly different from those ... balance by making organizational policy changes, (4) seamless integration of digital health tools into ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marshall Dahl, MD, PhD, FRCPC January/February 2022
... by reduction of pituitary secretion of gonadotropins.[ 4 ] Progesterone is used in hormone therapy of cisgendered ... 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 ...
Obituaries / BY: Dan Kalla October 2022
... they soon fell deeply in love and were married within 4 months. Frank and Judy started a family practice in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: barbara findlay, MA, LLB, QC March 2022
... the age of majority. 3.    Family Law Act SBC 2011 c 25 4.     AB v CD 2020 BCCA 11. This case was an appeal from ... where youth and parents disagree about medical treatment.[ 4 ] The Court confirmed that under the law, health care ...
Obituaries / BY: Ian L. Mitchell, MD, FRCP December 2022
... to Canada in 1970 with three children under the age of 4. Vance spent 2 years at the University of Alberta Hospital ...