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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc March 2025
... or the patient is significantly immunocompromised.[ 5 ] Physicians are often asked about perioperative ...
Premise / BY: Davie Wong, MD, FRCPC July/August 2025
... and efficient decisions, similar to a rule of thumb. [5] These heuristics protect us against cognitive burnout from ... to gain something. This is known as loss aversion. [5]  This can result in the prescription of antibiotics to ... apply to their patients are experiencing aggregate bias. [5] For instance, multiple national guidelines recommend ...
Clinical Case Reports / BY: Sukhdeep Jatana, MDCM December 2025
... taken for an esophagogastroduodenoscopy, which showed a 5 cm area of ulceration and necrosis with surrounding ... presentations in veterinary medicine as in humans.[ 5 ] It may exert its pathologic effects via the accumulation ...
Original Research / BY: Jennifer Kask, MD, CCFP, FCFP May 2025
... standard for STI testing in patients with male anatomy).[ 5-7 ] BD ProbeTec CT/GC Q x vaginal swabs (the type used in Island Health) have a sensitivity of 99.3% and 99.5% and a specificity of 98.6% and 99.8% in detecting ... of lab staff ( n = 9), 33% were familiar with SAVS, and 12.5% believed that SAVS were as accurate as clinician-collected ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Walter, MD October 2025
... into 4 years of medical school. That was followed by 5 years of specialty training and then over 2 years of ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kevin E. Liang, MD, CCFP January/February 2024
... water, sand, and chemicals to release trapped gas.[ 5 ] This process poses multiple health risks, including water contamination, air pollution, and earthquakes.[ 5 , 6 ] Despite these growing concerns, BC continues to ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC June 2024
... are expected to bring in about $19.3 billion over the next 5 years.[ 4 ] The government’s plan to tax the “very ... tax may prompt doctors to quit, CMA warns.”[ 5 ] So, what is a capital gain? And why do these changes ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB October 2024
... called up in ascending order of their years of service, in 5-year blocks. When the presenter got to those who had served ...
BC Stories / BY: Allison Chung, MD March 2024
... I went to a segregated public primary school in Borneo. On 5-year-old legs, it took 45 minutes to walk there. Chinese ...
Obituaries / BY: Omar Nazif, MD, PEng, FRCSC July/August 2024
... surrounded and comforted by loving family members, on 5 August 2023. A gentle man and a gentleman, Aziz was born in ...