2024

I’m certain Dr Caitlin Dunne’s editorial in the October 2023 issue of the BCMJ [2023;65:277] resonates with many. I’d like to point out that this is not only the experience of women in the MD profession, but also of some men.

Drs Steidle and Lostchuck are correct in surmising that there is a reluctance on the part of doctors to perform pelvic examinations [BCMJ 2023;65:329-330]. My experience suggests it is nothing new.

Livestock are subject to crowding and sensory deprivation and must be killed to provide meat. Dr Hajek proposed that we extend promotion of human rights to animals, because cattle and pigs have complex cognitive and emotional lives.[1] I agree.[2]

Climate change has been a global crisis of interest for decades; however, the physical and psychological impacts of climate change, particularly on Canada’s underserved populations, are underexplored. The impacts of climate change are readily visible in the country, with Canada’s average temperatures warming at twice the mean global rate.[1] However, recent extreme weather events, including wildfires raging through Western Canada and heat-induced storms in Ontario and Quebec, have brought the devastating health consequences of climate change to light.

Dr Roger Hubert Vincent Page died peacefully in Ridge Meadows Hospital in Maple Ridge on 23 September 2023, a few days after his 90th birthday.

Roger was the second of four children born into a family who farmed in Matsqui, near Abbotsford. He is survived by his younger twin siblings: Merrill, a rancher in Barriere, and Marion, a retired nurse living in Menno Home in Abbotsford.