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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: G. Butt, MHSc March 2004
... transplantation. The number of individuals who received a medical assessment is unknown; however, about 650 cases per ... and care services for those with or at-risk of HCV. This article highlights the early outcomes from two initiatives, ... partnership with physician specialists, the sites organize medical clinics several times a month for patients who ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD May 2004
...  from a colleague complaining that by publishing a recent article on the treatment of fibromyalgia with acupuncture ( ... remembered when any of us are evaluating the usefulness of medical articles that are presented as “new science” in ... Editorial Board, in its collective wisdom, feels that an article has merit because it provides our readers with a new, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC March 2004
... [1]  “Shaken baby syndrome” is a term used in the medical literature to describe children who have suffered an ... and, in some cases, death. [8]  Several aspects of medical assessment can help physicians recognize and manage ... been made in addressing many of these controversies. This article reviews aspects of history-taking, physical ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kathryn Hornby, DMD, MLS, CertMinf July/August 2004
... articles are by far the most-used resource. Finding an article on a chosen topic is still most efficiently done ... abstracts provide details and interpretation of one article’s findings, review articles summarize the findings ... good sources of guidelines are provided by the Canadian Medical Association ( ...
Clinical Articles June 2004
... HP/Compaq, Toshiba, Audiovox, Viewsonic, and others. This article focuses on the Palm OS primarily because the vast ... of PDA-owning physicians use a Palm. As a result, most medical applications come out on the Palm first. It should be ... helps address the time lag between reading a journal article and applying it clinically. Having these tools at our ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD November 2004
... read it in years. The front cover caught my eye with an article titled “What Your Doctor Wants to Tell You.” Of ... right away, not when you’re leaving.” I copied this article, put a few in my waiting room, and gave some to new ... that this is a disservice to the individual with complex medical problems. With respect to the comments about being ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD March 2004
... “If access to health care is a right protected under article 7 of the Charter (which protects the rights to ... is no evidence that the institution of a parallel private medical system in countries with an established, publicly ... to define a system that today bears no relation to the medical realities of the era in which the act was created. ...
Letters / BY: Paul R. Latimer, MD July/August 2004
... ) you have defended your decision to publish the article on acupuncture ( “Treatment of fibromyalgia with ... ). As part of your defence, you point out that some medical conditions defy pathological categorization while ... You may still argue that your decision to publish an article has many components, as you have done, but please ...
Letters / BY: M.M. Moran, MB May 2003
... or northern issues with any credibility. I note from her article that since 1981 or 1982 she has been part of a rota ... issues. I would find it much more plausible if this article was written by a physician that actually resided in a ... such as Dease Lake. Unfortunately, I believe that the BC Medical Association has the same understanding of the North ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD December 2003
Dr Phil Ashmore recently submitted a historical article to the  BCMJ  entitled “The early development of cardiac surgery in British Columbia.” This article, soon to be published in our  Journal , provides a ... described by many in the popular media of the day as a “medical marvel”—is an engrossing trip down BC’s own ...