Letters /
BY: Goldis Mitra, MD, CCFP
July/August 2018
Thank you for publishing the article, “Infertility: Testing and diagnosis for the ... testing in the family practice office. Dr Dunne’s article was clear and concise, helped outline the rationale ...
Editorials /
BY: Ehud Ur, MBBS, FRCPC
November 2018
... by highly respected international organizations. The first article in this theme issue reports on findings from a ... the negatives and positives of diabetes care in BC. This article by Dr Maureen Clement and colleagues considers the ... in BC limit options for diabetes management. The second article is by Dr Keith Dawson, who describes the prevalence ...
Editorials /
BY: Brian Day, MB
January/February 2018
... the editor of the British Medical Journal sent an article containing eight deliberate mistakes in design and ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jon Havelock, MD, FRCSC
May 2018
... management of diabetes is beyond the scope of this article, it is possible to recommend exercise and weight loss ...
Letters /
BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
October 2018
... writers’ love of medicine as a profession. Consider the article about early Canadian ships’ surgeons ... in “Physician suicide—where the system fails.” The article, dedicated to the memory of his brother, psychiatrist ...
Letters /
BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC
July/August 2018
... that define Alzheimer disease clinical onset in an article titled “Alzheimer’s disease can be spared by ... have increased cardiovascular risk and disease. In their article, Dr McGeer’s team states “we are currently ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Maureen Clement, MD, CCFP
November 2018
... unaware of the sponsors’ identities until after this article was submitted to the BCMJ . Funds were used ... not involved in any aspect of the decision to develop this article, in the content of the article, in the selection of authors, or in any aspect of the ...
Letters /
BY: Zafar Essak, MD
October 2018
I recently read an interesting article on the business culture at Netflix in WIRED ( www.wired.com/story/reed-hastings-at-ted ). In the article, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings spoke about a talk he had ...
Editorials /
BY: Yvonne Sin, MD
September 2018
... policies regarding medicine and social media, and found an article published in 2017 by the Canadian Medical Protective ... the posted information is properly de-identified.” The article also mentioned that physicians may share identifiable ...
News
July/August 2018
... MacDermot Prize for Excellence in Medical Journalism: Best article or essay was awarded to Drs Justin Burton, Emma Dowds, and Alexander Dodd for their article, “First aid training for seniors: Preventing falls ... elderly” [ BCMJ 2017;59:189-191]. The authors wrote the article while in their third year of medical school at UBC in ...