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Clinical Articles / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC July/August 2004
... the situation can negatively affect the delivery of health care to rural patients. Videoconferencing (VC), one ... are all now routinely stored-and-forwarded at hundreds of health care facilities. Images of pathology slides, skin ... examination or interview of the patient by the local health care professional was recorded and forwarded to a ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD March 2004
... The application challenges the ability of the Canada Health Act to prevent Canadian citizens from obtaining private health care insurance that covers the cost of privately provided health care in this country. In 1996 Dr Jacques Chaoulli and ...
Clinical Articles October 2004
... transmitted disease (STD) guidelines were published by Health Canada in 1998. [1]  In 2002 and 2003, the STD/AIDS ... the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and the Sexual Health and Sexually Transmitted Infections Section of the Division of Community Acquired Infections Health Canada, collaborated on a study to assess current ...
Editorials / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC June 2004
... and beyond.”—Buzz Lightyear,  Toy Story Access to health care, especially for patients living in rural and ... been brought into sharper focus over the last few years by health professionals, patients, organizations involved in health care delivery and management, and all levels of ...
Letters / BY: Donald J. Young, MD January/February 2004
... competition among hospitals is what is needed to improve health care delivery in Canada. I’m sure that hospitals in ... Britain, where the program so far includes only National Health Service hospitals. His assumption that hospitals in ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD September 2004
... At any rate, the prioritization and implementation of health care promises by the Liberal minority is going to make ... success of the applicants. If that is the case, the Canada Health Act will have to be amended in order to allow ... to sell their product to Canadians for private Canadian health care. If that is the directive from the Supreme Court ...
Letters / BY: Arturo S. Manes, MD May 2004
... the scope of what we do in fulfilling the long-term health care needs of individuals. This trend away from family ...
Clinical Articles November 2004
... (T2D) in children and adolescents is a growing public health concern and reflects the increasing rates of obesity ... when screened for disorders related to obesity, [1]  health officials recognize that a large number of children ... consultation with an interdisciplinary pediatric diabetes health care team that includes a pediatric endocrinologist or ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jasmine Grewal, MD, FRCPC January/February 2004
... of dyspnea. This was more accurate than both the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey criteria (67%) and ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB July/August 2004
Tired of hearing about the woes of our health system? Loath to read yet another editorial on ... restrictions on access to supplementary nongovernment health care. In a trial labeled by media as the “case of ... restrictions on the rights of Canadians to purchase more health care than the government provides. I heard lawyers ...