Premise /
BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC
March 2020
... dating back over 100 years (which should scare you) to people like Paul Broca and Carl Wernicke with their aphasia ... the whole universe. Research on things like this leads people to say that consciousness is simply the imperfect ...
Editorials, COVID-19 /
BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD
June 2020
... us mistaken in our answer. In truth, in the US, about 7500 people die each day, so the vast majority of people who died on 9/11 did so in the more usual way. That day, approximately 100 people likely died in motor vehicle accidents and 31 in ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 /
BY: Michael Otterstatter, MSc, PhD
October 2020
... in a population, scientists track over time how many other people are likely to become infected from a single case. This ... each person with COVID-19 was infecting nearly three other people. Through the spring, BC reduced that number down to ... plays a key role in disease control by quickly identifying people who may have been exposed to the virus. These people ...
Letters /
BY: Shelley Ross, MD
January/February 2020
... and provincial levels. I believe we have the right people at the right tables to work through the challenging ...
Premise /
BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC
April 2020
... mutation and natural selection. However, there are many people now questioning the completeness of these principles. ...
Back Page, COVID-19 /
BY: Abe Zacharias, MD, FRCPC
July/August 2020
... were a diverse group of World War II veterans, Indigenous people, and patients who had survived the brutal Hong Kong ...
College Library /
BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS
September 2020
... arising from personal and systemic bias against Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color is a pressing issue in Canada, but resources ...
Editorials, COVID-19 /
BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM)
April 2020
... while COVID-19 preferentially targets frail elderly people. The most striking feature of pandemics is their ... a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell... Deal gently then with this ...
Premise, COVID-19 /
BY: Jan Hajek, MD
November 2020
... bacteria emerged, entered our food supply, and made people sick.[ 10 ] It took years of international and public ...
Editorials /
BY: Brian Day, MB
January/February 2020
... an editorial[ 1 ] in which I stated, “Injured or sick people who languish on wait lists deteriorate and cost more ... legal costs in an effort to oppose the will of 80% of its people, it makes one wonder what kind of democracy we live ...