2024

In their April 2024 BCMJ article, the authors present the Vancouver Chest Pain Rule as a tool to “preserve scarce resources for higher-risk patients while alleviating unnecessary hospitalization . . . for lower-risk patients,” thereby “increasing system-wide capacity.”

Drs Sidhu, Sheridan, Badii, and Masri’s article “In-office management of knee osteoarthritis” provides an excellent detailed overview of the in-office diagnosis and management of knee osteoarthritis that is relevant to so many physicians.

In a recent editorial, Dr Schwandt described the importance of speed limits in reducing injuries and deaths (and health care costs) from motor vehicle crashes.

I would like to thank the authors for covering platelet-rich plasma as a treatment option for osteoarthritis in such detail.

I strongly urge Doctors of BC to fill the horrific gap created by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC’s financial risk management strategy of closing the College Library.