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Letters / BY: Richard S. Taylor, MB, BS, FRCPC January/February 2023
... ten minutes they had offered our child Lupron.’”[ 1 ] Was this an adequate psychosocial assessment? The parents ...
MDs To Be / BY: Samantha Gibbon, BSc April 2023
... workers, recommendations for physicians were born [ Box 1 ]. These recommendations invite physicians to enrich their ... of Indigenous people affected by the MMIWG tragedies.[ 1 , 2 ] It is important to note that it is not only women and ... of how to safely and efficiently provide care.[ 1 ] As the number of both documented and undocumented missing ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Rachel Grimminck, MD, FRCPC, DABPN, CGP July/August 2023
... (MHSU) disorders are experiencing a “quality chasm”[ 1 ] and are dying at unprecedented rates, in part due to ... opioid crisis. The 2023 BC provincial budget includes $1 billion for MHSU funding over the next 3 years. However, it ... is perfectly designed to get the results it gets,”[ 1 ] it’s time to treat structural stigma as a ...
Clinical Articles, Clinical Case Reports / BY: Eugene Y.H. Yeung, MD, MSc, BSc(Pharm), FRCPC, FCCM, D(ABMM), CTH November 2023
... people in Canada were reported to have tuberculosis.[ 1 ] However, multidrug-resistant (defined as resistance to ... were detected only 206 and 6 times, respectively.[ 1 ] In 2022, a World Health Organization report led to an ... definitions of different categories of resistance [ Table 1 ].[ 2 ] Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis is now ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB March 2023
... even longer; my first BCMJ article was published in 1981.[ 1 ] It will surprise no one that I will end my term with a ... that many Canadian patients (a CMA report revealed it was 1 in 3) who do not have private extended health insurance go ... concerns with a hypothetical three-phase scenario. Phase 1: In a pre-election speech, the Minister of Health announces ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Patricia M. Massel, MD June 2023
... travel privately to urban centres for outpatient care.[ 1 ] Northern BC is particularly remote, and reaching ... a social worker, and a transport paramedic [ Table 1 ]. Six key themes were selected for discussion: travel ... ambulatory care travel. Visiting a specialist often took 1 to 2 days of travel, and dangerous winter travel conditions ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC September 2023
... type of praise one is given. According to Koestner,[ 1 ] of the nine types of praise, only one works for ... way. The forms of praise that are not motivating are: (1) praise as positive guidance, (2) praise as a transition ... praise should be contingent , specific , and credible .[ 1 , 2 ] It is also important to note that praise is not the ...
News December 2023
An innovative stem cell–based treatment for type 1 diabetes can meaningfully regulate blood glucose levels and ... the insulin-producing beta cells that people with type 1 diabetes lack. Dubbed VC-02, the small medical implant ... as a significant step toward a functional cure for type 1 diabetes. With further refinement of this approach, ...
News April 2023
... prescription birth control free to its residents. Starting 1 April 2023, PharmaCare will cover the full cost of many ... . News Free contraceptives beginning 1 April: Information for doctors ...
Obituaries July/August 2023
... Dr Lukas Cornelius Klopper 1 May 1956–1 May 2023 Dr Henry Frank Mizgala 28 November 1932–11 ...