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Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG May 2008
... why can’t hospitals? You probably remember the article published in CMAJ in 2004 (Baker RG, Norton PG, ... 24000 of the deaths associated with these adverse events (medical or surgical) were potentially preventable. Granted, ... inexcusable, no matter how the statistics are presented. Medical error is arguably the next great medical frontier. So ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Betty Tang, MD, FRCPC, July/August 2008
... (DD) has both a narrow and a wide definition. In this article we use the term narrowly to refer to children and ... but whose IQ is greater than 70. Determining whether a medical problem or a mental health problem is the underlying ... of their cognitive and adaptive disabilities. Also, medical complications may present as challenging behaviors.  ...
Letters / BY: Karen A. Gelmon, MD, FRCPC July/August 2008
... highlights that the guidelines published in our recent article in the BCMJ are out of date.  When we submitted the ... from screening should close the argument.  We need the medical community to clearly and unambiguously advise women ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Susan Albersheim, MD, FRCPC, PhD, November 2008
... of gestational age to 81% at 25 weeks (see accompanying article beginning on page 498). Though it is important to ... guidelines such as those seen in the accompanying article. To begin with, medical ethics as­signs primacy to respect for person. In ...
Editorials / BY: Robert D. Levy, MD, FRCPC March 2008
... of this distinction remained somewhat elusive. Similarly, medical trainees were coached in the subtle physiologic ... the health and well-being of patients with COPD. The final article in this first part, by Drs Al Talag and Wilcox (see ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2008
... himself as a journalist who just happened to be doing an article on doctors and needed a photograph of a doctor carrying a medical bag.  I was standing in my office parking lot at the ... of lay publications.  The most recent example was an article in one of our local newspapers alerting all their ...
Editorials / BY: Gavin Stuart, MD, Dean, UBC Faculty of Medicine, September 2008
... Faculty of Medicine. In May 2008, the first class of medical students from the expanded and distributed MD ... des­cribed by Wayne Vogl and William Ovalle in their article about multisite teaching of anatomy.  The success of ... is also discussed in Chris Lovato and Caroline Murphy’s article about their evaluation study, which assessed the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD November 2008
... Medicine. 2007;39:109-120 (evidence level 1)—This article is based on a systematic review investigating the ... and epidemiologic patterns; diagnostic evaluation through medical history, physical examination, and imaging; natural ... and review, please contact Dr Craig Martin, senior medical advisor and chair of the Evidence Based Practice ...
Letters / BY: Rodney Glynn-Morris, MD, December 2008
I read the article in the Medical Post (26 September 2008) about problems with ...
Obituaries / BY: Ruth Elwood Martin, MD, FCFP, MPH June 2008
... and French history at UBC.  In 1975, Mimi entered UBC medical school, where I first met her over our cadavers; we ... for those who have been sexually assaulted, and for the Medical Reform Group.  Mimi’s goodness was who she was; ... that would be de­voted to narrative and would include an article written by Rita Charon.[ 4 ]  —Ruth Elwood Martin, ...