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Council on Health Promotion / BY: A. Maria Chung, MDCM January/February 2022
... for acute care facilities and private doctors’ offices.[ 2 ] Expanding access to translation services for patients in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: S. Fakhredine, MD May 2022
... are associated with significant morbidity and mortality.[ 2 ] We review risk periods for infections and ... occurred in the British Columbia transplant program. Table 2 summarizes the current recommendations in BC for antiviral ... is currently used for the highest-risk groups [ Table 2 ]. The main side effect of valganciclovir is cytopenias. If ...
Obituaries / BY: Davinder K. Sandhu, MD December 2022
... train with Dame Sherlock. Marce then moved to Ottawa for 2 years of GI residency at Ottawa General Hospital and Ottawa ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nicole J. Todd, MD, FRCSC March 2022
... and limited health care practitioner knowledge.[ 2 ] Participants in one study felt that only 50% of health ... inclusive and gender-affirming sexual health care.[ 2 ] Accessing experienced providers may require travel to ... that do not align with the patient’s sexual behavior.[ 2 ] As one patient related, “not everybody who’s getting ...
Editorials / BY: Yazdan Mirzanejad, MD, DTMH, FRCP, FACP, MRCP June 2022
... May 2022 issue of the BCMJ ). The first article in part 2 focuses on antimicrobial stewardship (Wong and colleagues). ...
Letters / BY: Joanne Sinai, MD, MEd, FRCPC October 2022
... processes. In their guest editorial for Part 2 of the Gender-affirming care in BC series, Dr Knudson, Dr ... the UK’s Cass Review outlines some of these concerns.[ 2 ] Related articles also fail to address the sharp rise in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sahil Kumar, MSc January/February 2022
... offer upper body surgery, orchiectomy, and hysterectomy.[ 2 ] In BC, gender-affirming surgical care largely follows the ... pelvic pain, and postoperative voiding dysfunction.[ 2 , 6 ] Penile inversion vaginoplasty completed in BC is ... when constructing the external genital structures.[ 2 , 5 ] This procedure may be preferred in medically complex ...
MDs To Be / BY: Nora Tong, BDSc April 2022
... the Examination and Processing of Human Semen in 1999,[ 2 ] with the 6th edition released in July 2021.[ 3 ] Dozens ...
News July/August 2022
On the first episode of DocTalks season 2, we speak with experts Julie Jones and Carl Prophet about ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ellison Richmond, MD, MPH December 2022
... all-cause and overdose deaths due to opioid dependence.[ 2 ] Buprenorphine/naloxone (Suboxone) is a first-line opioid ... days of hydromorphone initiation and had resolution within 2 to 4 days of its discontinuation. Other medications ... rapid induction was started, with a day 1 total dose of 2 mg, 88 mg of hydromorphone, and trazodone, acetaminophen, ...