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President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD March 2018
... is not ready for a woman physician.” Interestingly, 2 weeks after I started fumbling my way through clinical ...
Letters / BY: Sarah Fraser, BSc January/February 2018
... myocardial infarction, rheumatoid arthritis, type 2 diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, head and neck cancer, and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).[ 1,2 ] Importantly, it has been suggested that perception may be ... earlier hospital discharge and earlier return to school.[ 2,5 ] Frostholm and colleagues[ 6 ] suggest that discussions ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi April 2018
... than in the Vancouver Coastal Health region.[ 2 ] A provincial youth suicide prevention guide created by ...
News October 2018
... fatty tissue surrounding brain cell fibres was loosened 2 weeks after an injury, even though athletes felt fine and ... they were concussed, they were rescanned 3 days afterward, 2 weeks afterward, and 2 months afterward. Eleven athletes were concussed during the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC May 2018
... an additional 5% to 8% of couples will become pregnant.[ 2 ] Peak fecundability occurs during the fertile window, ... highest chances of conception were seen with intercourse 2 days before ovulation and on the day of ovulation itself.[ ... than 7 IU/L at all ages, and the live birth rate was below 2% when the FSH level was above 18 IU/L.[ 23 ] Measuring FSH ...
Obituaries / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD July/August 2018
... medicine and enrolled in 1939. After completing his first 2 years he volunteered for the Royal Navy. For the next 4 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Christine E. Simmons, MD, MSc, FRCPC March 2018
... resection being driven largely by the surgical community.[ 2 ] Significant improvements in breast cancer outcomes ... differ from that of adjuvant therapy, as shown in  Table 2 .While each chemotherapeutic protocol has slightly ...
Editorials / BY: Sharadh Sampath, MD, FRCSC April 2018
... malabsorption, or other surgical complications.[ 1 , 2 , 3 ] Why should you care?  Whether you practise in ... within days and months of surgery. In the case of type 2 diabetes, high rates of complete remission have been seen[ ... surgery should be considered for patients with type 2 diabetes and BMI of 30.0 to 34.9 kg/m 2 if hyperglycemia is ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patricia Caddy, MD October 2018
... therapy for the management of opioid use disorder in BC.[ 2 ] Suboxone prescribing resource A resource designed to ... compared with abstinence or withdrawal-only therapies.[ 2 ] Suboxone and methadone are considered equally efficacious ... resource includes induction algorithms for Day 1 and Day 2, advice on gauging withdrawal severity using the clinical ...
News / BY: Stephen Routledge, MPH January/February 2018
... any medications been added, stopped, or changed, and why? 2.    What medications do I need to keep taking, and why? ...