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Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB November 2003
... "externship" from Germany; the other was with a visiting health trade mission from Britain. The student was shocked ... more about the process can visit the Commission for Health Improvement website at www.ratings.chi.nhs.uk/ .    ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Terry Curran, MD, FRCP March 2003
... try to divert more money to Band-Aid the upcoming booming health care costs. The bottom line is that you need to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J. Rezmovitz, MSc November 2003
... in self-confidence and coordination, overall health, quality of life, and general well-being have all been ... and quantified, the responses indicated improved health, less aching, and improved function. The open-ended ...
Letters / BY: Alexander Boggie, MD April 2003
... we were often told that one of our roles in providing health care was to act as the patient’s advocate. This ... relationship was slowly and progressively eroded by the health care bureaucrats, who successfully used their position ... funding agency. The past 30 years has seen good, personal health care delivery deteriorate due to inadequate funding ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marlene E. Hunter, MD, FCFPC January/February 2003
... Dease Lake has the most northern, rural, isolated health care centre in the province, far more isolated than ... happens to be the community that I know best, as far as health care in isolated areas is concerned, as I have been ... so. By the time the community had opened its own Stikine Health Centre in 1994, I was the identified medical director ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... guidelines published by the National Institutes of Health. [5]  Adjuvant postoperative radiation and ... the 1990 consensus statement by the National Institutes of Health. [5]  That consensus statement was guided by results ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC April 2003
The health care and fiscal costs of the illicit drug use ... University Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue.   A public health crisis Illicit drug use is associated with costly health, social, and community impacts. The effects of the ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Goldberger, MD December 2003
... This trend promises to worsen given the pressures on our health care system. Hence at a time when we are most likely ... will always be a combination of art and science, and no health care system can function in denial of this basic ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD June 2003
... there was no one else there. Various attempts by public health authorities to contain the polio epidemic seemed to ... of hysteria that seemed so pervasive everywhere but in the health care sector. Dr Kendall stated that the tempest ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB March 2003
... —Senator Michael Kirby, Chair, Senate Commission on Health Care (on the topic of a “care guarantee”), 2002 An ... ethical physician’s role is to attempt to ensure quality health care that is appropriate, effective, and provided in a ... legislation that limits the rights of both patients and health providers. In a May 2002 CMA survey, 82% of 2000 ...