Dr Harvey Thommasen

What profession might you have pursued, if not medicine?
Conservation officer.

Which talent would you most like to have?
I wish I could sculpt wildlife.

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As fall rolls around and a new school year begins, those of you with school-age children or grandchildren will be anxious as they start a new year. It’s a time for new classmates, new teachers, and new challenges. As parents, we focus on academics and ensuring our children get the best education that will give them a good start to their lives. However, do we also consider the importance for our children to be physically active?

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Influenza vaccine has been administered to pregnant women since the 1950s, initially to those with high-risk medical conditions such as chronic heart or lung disease and later to health care workers. Since the 1990s, use in pregnancy has been expanded more broadly in many countries in recognition of the risk of influenza-related complications and benefits to both mother and infant, with even higher rates of use in pregnancy during the 2009 A/H1N1 pandemic because of severity of the infection in pregnancy.

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The roll-out of the GPSC Residential Care Initiative represents a major advance in delivering high-quality care to residential care residents in British Columbia. One of the expectations of the initiative is the provision of proactive visits. However, recent audits have identified some issues with the following long-term care fee items (00114 and 00115).

Common errors seen in audits

Fee item 00114 (one or multiple patients, per patient):

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Traumatic anterior shoulder dislocations are a relatively common injury, with an incidence rate near 24 per 100 000 person-years.[1] The injury is 2 to 5 times more common in males, with almost half occurring before the age of 30. Between 1990 and 2015, WorkSafeBC saw nearly 6000 shoulder dislocations, with 27.8% occurring in patients age 25 or younger. Surgery has often been reserved for cases of recurrence, but the literature suggests that young patients may benefit from primary surgical stabilization sooner rather than later.

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