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Letters / BY: Philip M. Alderman, MD March 2002
... for Voluntary Surgical Contraception (now renamed Engender Health) and no-scalpel promoters have claimed fewer ...
Letters / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) October 2002
... to be sent to the Alternative Therapies and Allied Health Committee. I am writing to the  Journal  because I ... and down-sizing. I suggest that it is time for us as health professionals to foreclose on our biases and relax our ... are self-medicating with preparations from drugstores and health-food stores. Most doctors agree that there are risks ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert Ferrari, MD, FRCPC June 2002
... context of medical care. [1-3]  There is no apparent health benefit in making a patient focus on a medicolegal ... of fibromyalgia, a history that places them at risk for health care seeking behaviors and disease confirmation. [12] ...
Letters / BY: John Hall, MD January/February 2002
... very well the attitude that many patients have about health professionals. The article can be applied equally ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB September 2002
... than that is not medically necessary? Although the Canada Health Act (CHA) requires that all  medically necessary  ... is not medically necessary,” wrote a BC Ministry of Health bureaucrat to a cancer patient who had undergone a ... so-called right-wing Alberta government for changing its health coverage so that it no longer funded replacement ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jiri Frohlich, MD, FRCPC May 2002
... and stroke.  Figure 1  shows the data from the National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES) that compared CHD death ... Diabetes Study (UKPDS),  [12]  and the Cardiovascular Health Study [8,13]  showed that the major lipoprotein ... of excessive accumulation of abdominal fat is a public health priority.  Competing interests None declared.   ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Peter L. Munk, MDCM, FRCPC, FSIR, FFRRCSI(Hon) December 2002
... and geriatric hospital beds. In this era of significant health care cost restraint, this represents an important ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Murray Allen, MD July/August 2002
... reduce or stop them until you have spoken with your health professional: • Dizziness, spinning feeling, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kathleen M.N. Lee, RDN April 2002
... of obesity versus surgery. • The National Institute of Health in the United States (NIH) released the first American ... to surgery A new algorithm that can be used by health care professionals in the evaluation and treatment of ...
Premise / BY: Murray Allen, MD October 2002
... suffer from these grievous problems. Most of the time, health professionals trust their patients and accept their ... injury without much hesitation. This type of behavior by health professionals is also rational because of the ... to moral hazard in this field. Also, in the current health insurance scheme, there is no impetus to reduce moral ...