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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] ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn L. Malone, MD, FRCPC January/February 2001
... of influenza A throughout nursing homes.[ 3,4 ] Providence Health Care (PHC) includes seven long-term care facilities in ... the Senior Leadership Team, Pharmacy, Occupational Health and Safety, Communications, and the director of ... Communicable Disease Control from the Vancouver/Richmond Health Board. The process for responding to influenza ...
Editorials / BY: Dr Kimit Rai, MD, FRCSC July / August 2001
... is to ensure that they give their patients good health care. But giving good care means much more than ... clinician. In the first article, “Ethics resources in health care institutions,” Dr Alister Browne, the chair of ... and an ethics consultant in Vancouver Hospital & Health Sciences Centre, puts ethics resource committees in ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD April 2001
... the onerous tax load, and the rapidly crumbling system of health delivery, and I started formulating a survival plan. ... again. It is my firm belief that a large percentage of the health-care workers presently working in BC will eventually ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP October 2001
... and in menopause information in order to make informed health decisions. [1] Physicians have the opportunity to play ... scrutiny by the Therapeutic Products Programme of Health Canada and have been issued drug identification ... reference book:  Herbs: Everyday Reference for Health Professionals  (see Resources, below). The two herbal ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alister Browne, PhD July / August 2001
Introduction Virtually every significant health care decision has an ethical component. Partly in ... this, and partly because accreditation requires it, most health care institutions in BC have access to ethics ... too much respect. The cult of expertise is so common in health care that ethicists are often treated as experts whose ...
Letters / BY: Barry Rich, MD December 2001
I am not sure if the lack of response to the Men’s Health Committee “Call to Arms” [BCMJ 2001;43(8): ...
Letters / BY: Joanna Bates, MDCM, CCFP March 2001
... second and third year, and work actively to enhance the health of British Columbians through activities like the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Joseph Noone, MD, LRCP&SI, FRCPC September 2001
Preventing and managing aggressive behavior in health care settings is an educational and training area that ... published a handbook called  Preventing Violence in Health Care: Five Steps to an Effective Program  in 2000. A key reference for all health care settings, it uses a five-step approach: Step ...
Editorials / BY: Donald B. Calne, OC, DM May 2001
... Neurodegenerative Disorders Centre Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre Editorials Parkinson’s disease: ...