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Letters / BY: Andrew Farquhar, MD March 2003
... rural diabetics” is in part responsible for the poorer health experienced by those living in northern/rural ... communities. The authors’ conclusion that “poor health reported for the Cariboo region is not due to inferior ... article and I welcome his feedback. I agree that the poor health reported for the Cariboo region is probably not due to ...
Editorials / BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD December 2003
... scheduled to close shortly due to fiscal pressures in the health authority. My story might sound like I am advocating for private medicine. I am not. I just want a health care system that can be easily accessed when people ...
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/ .    ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: K. Pielak, RN, MSN June 2003
On 27 February 2003 the Ministry of Health Planning announced funding for two new vaccine ... of all ages, starting at 2 months of age, who have health conditions that place them at higher risk for ... children ≥ 2 years of age, with any of the preceding health conditions, receive the pneumococcal polysaccharide ...
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 ...