Letters /
BY: Paul Winston, MD, FRCPC
September 2019
... do not improve outcomes in litigation or open claims.[ 1 ] Visits should be every 2 to 3 months for a chronic ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Michael R. Lyon, MD, ABOM
December 2019
... recipe for dramatic increases in premature death.”[ 1 ] Yoni Freedhoff, a well-known obesity medicine physician, ...
President's Comment /
BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP
January/February 2019
... species at risk. The signs are clear: long wait lists;[ 1 ] offices that move or close;[ 2 ] retiring doctors who ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC
April 2019
... 25%. New Zealand’s MAS program resulted in a 54.1% decrease in total serious and fatal nighttime crashes and saved society more than $1 billion in 1997. Ireland’s MAS legislation came into ... screening and Bill C-46. Can Criminal Law Rev 2018;23:1-42. Council on Health Promotion Canadian physicians support ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Michelle Tan, MD, CCFP, MBA
June 2019
... You can also call the new WorkSafeBC physician hotline (1 855 476-3049), which is available to external prescribers ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: David A. McVea, MD, PhD
October 2019
... parks worldwide and 50 million users in North America.[ 1 ] The growing popularity of these parks has been matched by ...
News
March 2019
... Columbians who died of an illegal drug overdose between 1 January 2016 and 31 July 2017 had recent contact with the ... justice system, according to a death review panel report[ 1 ] released by the BC Coroners Service in 2018. Of those, ...
Editorials /
BY: Brian Day, MB
May 2019
... is more demanding and less well paid than the real thing.[ 1 ] Many of us have tried, without achieving the level of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Brandon Yau, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC
July/August 2019
... and the chemotherapy drug melphalan, among others.[ 1,2 ] They also found traces of oxycodone in mussels taken at ... areas and not from protected commercial shellfish beds.[ 1,3,6 ] Second, the potential dose of opioids from this ... at their Seattle and Sinclair Inlet/Bremerton sites of 1.5 ng/g, 1.2 ng/g, and 0.68 ng/g of meat (oral communication ...
Obituaries /
BY: Lang Family
December 2019
... life. In 1971, Don arranged for a unique and memorable 1-year practice exchange with a physician in Bowral, ...