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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, ...
Letters / BY: Sarah Fraser, BSc January/February 2019
... patient, and be 54% more likely to die in hospital.”[ 1 ]  I went looking for these data because of a trend I had ... resources ($17 million and over 16 000 beds annually),[ 1 ] but also result in poor outcomes for BC’s vulnerable ...
News April 2019
... or educational opportunities. For more information, call 1 855 702-7272, Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ...