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Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2021
25 January 2021 I received my first dose of vaccine against COVID-19 last week. A fellow physician from another location injected me at a hospital vaccination clinic. For some reason he avoided the bulk of my deltoid and aimed for the acromion, causing him to hit ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD December 2021
... really wants is you, while you sip mulled wine or eggnog. My scientific mind does wonder how you “nog” an ... It’s been a difficult year on a personal level, too, as my wife became ill and continues to bravely battle what is at ... health care system from the other side, initially during hospital COVID-19 restrictions, and can attest to how trying ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB January/February 2021
15 December 2020 Since my previous editorial,[ 1 ] penned near the start of the ... by our current reality. The number of positive cases in my practice and those of my colleagues has risen steadily in ... up to everyone. Due to recurring outbreaks at my local hospital, I have undergone four COVID-19 tests. My first ...
Back Page / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC April 2021
... about the nitric oxide pathway has fizzled somewhat. In my field of anesthesiology, it is only used in ... is consulted for an upper-airway situation in the hospital, it continues to be for some extremis situation. ... surgical practice has changed a lot since the Tonsil Hospital of the 1920s in New York City, which was built to do ...
Letters / BY: Roger Seldon, MBChB, MD June 2021
... of vulnerable adult patients seeking to leave hospital: Understanding and using relevant legislation,” having had just such a conundrum during my shift the previous evening. Unfortunately, the article did ... would be much appreciated. Incapacity due to addiction By my reading of the article, my patient (whose parents were ...
Back Page, COVID-19 / BY: Mandy Ruthnum, MD, FCFP January/February 2021
... family? One morning in August, I was snoozing in bed when my youngest son woke up with abdominal cramps. Small muscular ... on an excess of cherries and pull the comforter over my head. In COVID-19 times, new dramatic physical symptoms ... time. At last, we drove to the white tent at our local hospital where we were greeted by the kindest public health ...
News / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD June 2021
... almost every district of BC. I had the feeling of reliving my student days as I read the sections on how Dr Kerr and Dr ... the number of medical students and a plan for a campus hospital or lose out on an unclaimed federal fund that was ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2021
... us will experience a different side, which recently became my reality, as my wife is unwell with an uncertain future. The tendency is ... nurses, therapists, porters, administrative staff, hospital workers, and more. I would like to thank all of them ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2021
... more. I did cellular, molecular, and microbial biology in my undergrad and then ended up going into medicine. And I ... I can’t do it. I have to be outside when I ride. It’s my quiet time. My alone time. It’s thinking and recharging ... psychiatrists willing to work in hospitals so the fees for hospital-based work were hiked. It caused an exodus from ...
Obituaries / BY: Douglas J. Courtemanche, MD, MS, FRCSC October 2020
... We met as junior surgical residents at Vancouver General Hospital and became friends for life. Duncan passed away ... Catherine, to New York as a fellow in orthopaedics at the Hospital for Special Surgery. This led to a position as ... always looking for ways to improve things. Some of you in my age group will remember when ambulances were modified ...