News
November 2018
... Revamped mental health and substance use website for young people ...
President's Comment /
BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP
October 2018
... do? 1. Recognize that the health care system and the people it cares for are complex. Complex systems evolve over ... person but not another, or it may cause side effects. How people react to the same infection, treatment, or trauma is ... While we argue about the highest standard of privacy, people willingly give up some of this right daily to interact ...
Editorials /
BY: Ehud Ur, MBBS, FRCPC
November 2018
... is one of Canada’s wealthiest provinces. So why do people with diabetes fare so poorly here? A stark picture was ... estimating that 29% of British Columbians (1.4 million people) are living with diabetes or prediabetes.[ 1 ] ... agreed-upon rights and self-care responsibilities for people living with diabetes, health care providers, and ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Fahra Rajabali, MSc
September 2018
... affects the practice of physicians who must care for these people. In the past decade, efforts have been made to ... estimate because costs were assigned only for injured people age 15 to 64 and not for those who leave the workforce ...
Editorials /
BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG
December 2018
... those who provide such care. To denigrate sincere people like Dr Brian Day, as has happened, is simply ... I regret not shouting about. I don’t like lecturing people. For me as an aging clinician to tell others, ... me as I make one final related point. The cleverest people I know are not afraid to admit that they don’t know ...
News
January/February 2018
... women between the ages of 50 and 74. FIT is designed for people who do not have symptoms and are considered at average ...
Editorials /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
September 2018
... be obtained. The assumption that the greater than 80% of people who didn’t respond would have completed the survey ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Erin Fraser, DVM, MSc
November 2018
... their feces, raccoon latrines represent a health risk to people and their pets. Baylisascaris eggs take from 2 to 4 ...
Editorials /
BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB
July/August 2018
... administration of health care. Unfortunately though, the people charged with deciding how health care dollars are spent are not the people who actually provide the health care. Those of us on ...
Letters /
BY: Zafar Essak, MD
October 2018
... courage as a fundamental value at the company. We want people to speak the truth, and we say, ‘To disagree ...