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Letters / BY: Nicholas Rety, MD May 2014
... Doctors BC some 30 years ago, as described in an article I wrote for the May 1983 issue of the  BC Medical Journal , ( BCMJ  1983;25:232-233 ). I welcome the ... —Nicholas Rety, MB Vernon We have posted  Dr Rety’s article  online as a matter of historical interest.  —ED. ...
Obituaries / BY: Jane Cowan, PhD, September 2014
... on 21 April we lost an important contributor to local medical history. Dr Cowan joined Dr R.G. Langston in the ... related to his specialty escaped his eye. He read every article, no matter where it was published, and used this ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Shelley Perlman, MD, CCFP, FRCPC, March 2014
... positions in the workplace. OSA is the most common medical disorder to cause excessive daytime sleepiness. It is ... In safety-sensitive positions, sleep apnea is a chronic medical condition—it needs to be under control before that ... For more information The information contained in this article is based on a review of literature available up to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gil Kimel, MSc June 2014
... treatment should integrate appropriate evidence-based medical and surgical treatments to address cardiac pathology. ... to palliative care. This is a revised version of the article published in the June 2014 issue ( BCMJ ... appeared on page 227, paragraph 1, line 12 in the original article ["(17.2 g twice daily)" corrected to "(17.2 mg twice ...
News&Notes / BY: Lila Yewchuk, MD, FRCPC, March 2014
... was published in the June 2012 issue of the  BC Medical Journal  ( BCMJ  2012;54:232-237 ). The article describes how type 1 diabetes, unlike other common, ...
Letters / BY: Gerard Ponsford, MBBS, September 2014
... disability claim there exists an equally fraudulent medical certificate. After all, sans this authentication such ... Surgeons of British Columbia." This is more of a watch-out article than a smarten-up one. Not so much, don't do this at ...
Letters December 2014
We were disappointed to read Dr Trusler’s article regarding novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) for ... Ingelheim. This letter was submitted to the  BC Medical Journal  prior to receiving the grant. Dr Yip ...
Letters / BY: Murray McFadden, MD, March 2014
... process ( BCMJ 2013;55:390-393 ). Not mentioned in your article is the fact that Ontario has core audit values ... 2010[ 3 ] as a result of Justice Cory’s report,[ 4 ] “Medical Audit Practice in Ontario.” That high-level and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: A. Maria Chung, MDCM July/August 2013
... fact can come as quite a surprise to caregivers, including medical staff. Consequently, patients at the end stages of ... recognized terminal illnesses are. An eye-opening article by Dr Susan Mitchell in the  New England Journal of ...
Letters / BY: Ernst Schneider, July/August 2013
In a recent article in the British Columbia Medical Journal I learned that Health Canada now licenses ...