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WorkSafeBC / BY: Tung Siu, MD, CCFP, ACBOM May 2023
... to work after an injury or illness are well known.[ 1 , 2 ] Community family physicians are in a unique position to ... being able to watch a movie implies sitting tolerance of 2 hours. Likewise, being able to do dishes or mow the lawn ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Celina Dunn, MD, CCFP, CIME July/August 2023
... may miss the window of opportunity to meet billing rules[ 2 ] if they are not aware that the patient is a WorkSafeBC ...
Clinical Articles, Clinical Case Reports / BY: Eugene Y.H. Yeung, MD, MSc, BSc(Pharm), FRCPC, FCCM, D(ABMM), CTH November 2023
... of different categories of resistance [ Table 1 ].[ 2 ] Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis is now divided ... with additional resistance to bedaquiline or linezolid).[ 2 ] The typical antimicrobial duration of treatment for ... tuberculosis, depending on medications used.[ 2 , 3 ] The definition of disseminated tuberculosis is ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Vivian W.L. Tsang, MD, MGC April 2023
... Columbia, outweigh the number of deaths from COVID-19.[ 2 ] While standard treatments for substance use disorders in ...
Letters / BY: Michelle Hawkins, BSc (Hons) September 2023
... and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”[ 2 ] As such, an exploration of health needs in the context ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tung Siu, MD, CCFP, ACBOM October 2023
... to provide “just compensation” for injured workers.[ 2 ] If a worker was injured and wanted to be compensated, ...
Letters / BY: Cecile Andreas, MD December 2023
... Does working part-time mean I’ve failed as a feminist? (2) ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Brendan Tao, BHSc March 2023
... methamphetamine users, and most lifelong cocaine users.[ 2 ] During restrictions on support and harm reduction ... and was frequently paired with opioid use.[ 9 ] In 2019, 3.2 users per 1000 across Canada used methamphetamines.[ 10 ] ... to an online survey conducted between 13 October and 2 December 2020 reported moderate to severe depressive ...
MDs To Be / BY: Nicola Horwood, MD June 2023
... that the majority of knee X-rays are non-weight-bearing.[ 2 , 3 ] A British study found that 98% of nontraumatic knee ... ordered by family physicians were non-weight-bearing.[ 2 ] This can result in treatment delays, because supine ... diagnosis of osteoarthritis in mild to moderate cases.[ 2 , 4-7 ] Additionally, weight-bearing X-rays are better at ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Jennifer E. Nuk, MSc, CGC, CCGC July/August 2023
... family history of colorectal cancer or adenoma.[ 2 ] The guidelines employed the most rigorous evaluation of ... risk-based screening strategies was deemed arbitrary.[ 2 ] The group recommended colonoscopy as the preferred ... a family history of colorectal cancer: 1.37 (95% CI, 0.76-2.46) in pooled cohort studies. The relative risk increased ...