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MDs To Be / BY: Justin Burton, MSc, UBC Medicine, Class of 2018 January/February 2018
... advocacy that permeated the daily work at the hospital.[ 1 ] Interdisciplinary teamwork Each day began at 6:00 a.m. ... how to better deliver care to rural Peruvians having spent 1 month in a single location. However, given that many of the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Andrea McNeill, BScOT, BA Psych, OT(C) December 2018
... require any special medical treatment. Of the more than 1.1 million patients with MTBI who are treated and released ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC May 2018
... Medicine Editorials Guest editorial: Infertility, Part 1: Why infertility patients deserve our attention ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC June 2018
... with 30.5 years in Ontario and 25.4 years in Nunavut.[ 1 ] In 1991 the average age of a Canadian first-time mother ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2018
... get mistaken for Daniel Craig, particularly at the beach.[ 1 ] Sometimes I even fake an English accent and answer the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Katherine A. Blood, MD, PhD January/February 2018
Background   Women in the general population have a 1 in 9 lifetime risk of developing breast cancer—the number one cancer diagnosed in women in BC.[ 1 ] The majority of breast cancers are thought to occur ... and 13% to 23% for BRCA2 carriers,[ 3 ] compared with a 1% to 2% lifetime risk for ovarian cancer in the general ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC October 2018
... Evidence shows harm reduction is a pragmatic, safe,[ 1 ] cost-effective,[ 2 ] and lifesaving[ 3 ] response to ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Charuka Maheswaran, MBBS, DTM&H, DRCOG, DFFP, PMETB, CELTA, LMCC, CCFP, MPH May 2018
... mental and physical stress, diabetes, and dental caries.[ 1 ] Canada is called a first-world country, but within Canada ... of Indigenous peoples live in a fourth world.[ 1 ] This fourth world is defined as a place where ... costs with inconsistent funding from government.[ 1 ] What is also concerning is the frequent use of sugary ...
News March 2018
As of 1 March, DriveABLE assessments will no longer be used by ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC September 2018
... from a pulp and paper mill some 50 years ago.[ 1 ] The mercury levels downstream of the plant should have ...