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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD April 2015
... Strategies include attachment mechanisms that connect people with a family physician/primary care provider; ...
Obituaries / BY: Doug Blackman, MD, September 2015
... deputies and support staff were competent, wise, committed people. He turned us loose to do our jobs, expecting us to ...
News June 2015
... the importance of the procedures. With a growing number of people accessing health information online,[ 2 ] the BC ... the best way to communicate complex health information to people with low health literacy, and that this approach does ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) December 2015
The element mercury has long captured people’s imaginations. A silvery liquid at room ... reduction in all tuna consumption.[ 8 ] Are we deterring people from enjoying an affordable and excellent nutritional ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Réka Gustafson, MD, MSc, MHSc, FRCPC January/February 2015
... for a couple of days. On what occasion do you lie? When people ask me about my height. Which words or phrases do you ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2015
... said and done, it won’t be the walls I remember but the people and their stories. —DRR Editorials The office with ...
MDs To Be / BY: Kristel Leung, BSc, May 2015
... so forgiving. She was always good at that, understanding people, understanding me. When I asked how she learned, she ... fought. She knew firsthand what hatred and despair did to people, and she decided that she didn’t want it for us. It ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Rakel Kling, MD, MSc, November 2015
... from such labs are false positives. In BC less than 1% of people tested for Lyme disease have the infection (personal ... = 70%, specificity = 43%[ 6 ]) in a population of 10 000 people with a Lyme disease prevalence of 1% is presented in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Basia M. Hamata, MD, January/February 2015
... dyslipidemias in BC is estimated to be about 1 in 40 people. An even greater number are affected if people with elevated Lp(a) are counted in this estimate. ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2015
... patients. Not that we don’t appreciate most of the people we take care of; it’s just that we connect more ... Often, despite numerous hardships and obstacles, these people are happy and content. They face each day with a smile ... try to make the best of all situations. In brief, these people represent the type of individual I aspire to be. I see ...