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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 ...
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 ...