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Physician Spotlight / BY: Cecil Hershler, MD, PhD, FRCPC November 2025
... The Hero’s Journey , as described by Joseph Campbell.[ 1 ] Each weekend had a purpose (both real and mythic): the ...
Editorials / BY: Sepehr Khorasani, MD, MSc, FRCSC March 2025
... mental fatigue, improved performance, and fewer errors.[ 1 ] With additional freedom and dexterity, while eliminating ...
Premise / BY: Davie Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2025
... types of infections, including streptococcal pharyngitis,[ 1 ] community-acquired pneumonia,[ 2 ] and gram-negative ... in these two sequences: 3, 5, 7, X, and 14 days and 1, 2, X, and 6 weeks. What goes in the blanks? Most of us ... would be problematic, as some planets spin very slowly (1 Venus day = 243 Earth days), while others spin faster (1 ...
Original Research / BY: Octavian Turner October 2025
... province’s sole provider of adult liver transplants.[ 1 ] In 2023, the program performed 112 transplants, meeting ... and the median Child-Pugh score was 8 (IQR: 6,10) [ Table 1 ] . For inpatients at referral, the mean age was 51 years ... the median Child-Pugh score was 11 (IQR: 10,12) [ Table 1 ] . These findings suggest that inpatients had more ...
News December 2025
... Sanghera as the next president-elect. His term will start 1 January 2026. Dr Sanghera is a full-service family ... Primary Care Centre. Dr Sanghera begins his new role on 1 January 2026, when Dr Adam Thompson, the current ...
Letters / BY: Vanessa Kong, BA April 2025
... to minimize the risks associated with substance use.[ 1,2 ] We outline three lessons learned during the development ... Committee of Doctors of BC and the BC government. Lesson 1: There was a gap in knowledge about substance use care and ...
Premise / BY: Davie Wong, MD, FRCPC July/August 2025
... including the wrong drug, duration, dose, or indication. [1] Excessive antimicrobial prescriptions can harm patients, ... two systems of thinking for making decisions. [4] Type 1 is fast and intuitive, operating on pattern recognition for ... Experts claim that we spend 95% of our time in type 1 thinking. [4] Cognitive biases are more likely to occur in ...
Letters / BY: Spencer Cleave, MD, CCFP November 2025
... physical abuse, emotional neglect, and sexual trauma.[ 1,2 ] This trauma contributes to profound attachment ...
Clinical Articles, Clinical Images / BY: Karen Letourneau, CRGS March 2025
... lesion without obvious urine or bile discharge [Figure 1] . The child was otherwise well. The differential diagnosis ... and a cord-like structure that tapered off approximately 1 cm deep to the umbilical skin. Histologically, benign ... commonly associated with an enteric Meckel diverticulum.[ 1-3 ] Sonographically, an umbilical polyp appears as a ...
Obituaries / BY: Jon Wiggens May 2025
... Nanaimo, BC, on 10 March 2025 at age 85. Bryan was born on 1 June 1939 in Marton, New Zealand, to Jean Paterson Wiggens ...