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Clinical Articles / BY: Charles S.B. Galasko, ChM, FRCS June 2002
... per annum ($6.8 billion) if one includes the National Health Service costs, Social Security costs, damage to ... most modalities of treatment are unproven. Although the health care professions would be expected to have no impact on changing the litigation environment for the health of their patients, some health care approaches do seem ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG January/February 2002
... of our specialty to discuss developments in women’s health, and postmenopausal health in particular. I use the term megastar without a ... in, pitted against one of the luminaries of the women’s health world who is well-known for her skeptical, if not ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Samuel H. Krikler, MB, ChB, FRCPC March 2002
... because of the impact (including cost savings to the health care system) that early detection would have on ... Diagnostic Laboratory at BC’s Children’s and Women’s Health Centre using the method described by Feder and ... and Protocols Advisory Committee (BCMA and BC Ministry of Health) has recently developed guidelines for the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Theresa Isomura, MD, FRCPC October 2002
... role in assessing, treating, and caring for the mental health needs of patients in their practice. Studies show that ... in accessing psychiatric consultations and mental health resources. The stigma attached to mental health problems by the patient is a barrier in accessing ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Bigham, MD May 2002
... disease re-emerged as one of the most significant public health issues in British Columbia. Highlights included: • A ... evaluation of meningococcus. • Expanding public health guidelines for who contact tracing and prophylaxis are ... and pneumonia. • A recommendation by the provincial health officer, the British Columbia Centre for Disease ...
Letters / BY: Eugene Leduc, MD December 2002
... the “mobility impairment . . .  poses a risk to their health  by walking 100 metres” [4]  (my italics). This is ... with crutches or a walker create a risk to someone’s health? One could argue that the exercise is good for them. ... are very few people who would qualify under a “risk to health” category. Perhaps the SPARC program needs to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert Ferrari, MD, FRCPC July/August 2002
... [15]  and 58% in Norway [16] ) that provide the greatest health care and economic burden, and facet joint studies are ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patricia Clugston, MD, FRCSC, FACS April 2002
... or any time thereafter, providing the patient’s overall health is appropriate. Skin-sparing mastectomy is a major ... to provide an information base for both the public and health care communities ( ...
Clinical Articles / BY: E. Jane Garland, MD, FRCPC November 2002
... delusions including themes of poverty and poor health. Poor self-esteem and themes of guilt are less ... of multiple losses (of relationships, independence, health, comforts, activities) is a function of advancing age. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Burton H. Goldstein, DMD, MS, FRCDC June 2002
... masticatory muscle tender sites, greater utilization of health care and medications, higher levels of somatization, ... surgery are usually inappropriate for TMD. [18] Summary Health care professionals now recognize advances in the ...