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George Szasz, CM, MD
Choosing Wisely Canada is the brand name of a campaign to ensure high quality medical care. One of their current publications lists 13 tests and treatments that family physicians and patients should question. The... Read More
My sweet wife, Bess, is languishing in her deep dementia. As it is, I say thanks each day of the year to our caregivers, friends, doctors, pharmacists, food and drugstore store clerks, gardeners, plumbers, post persons... Read More
“Vancouver’s first ‘sex doll brothel’ could be opening soon” announced the headline in the Wednesday, 26 September 2018 edition of the Vancouver Sun.[1] According to the article, sex doll brothels could offer a service... Read More
The Vancouver Sun recently reported that the foot-lift, sometimes referred to as “Cinderella surgery,” is becoming a fast-growing and somewhat controversial sector of the cosmetic surgery industry. Surgical procedures... Read More
A wide range of adaptive sports, sometimes referred to as disabled sports or parasports, are well known to all who watch the Paralympic Games or the more recent Invictus and Warrior Games. Apart from the rehabilitative... Read More
Lynn Holden, MD (UBC 1974) killed herself on 1 December 2015. She was 67 years old. Her family remembers her as a generous, kind, vibrant person, an accomplished baker, highland dancer, trumpet player, pianist, and poet... Read More
In medicine a gold standard is the best available diagnostic test or benchmark under reasonable conditions. So I found it ironic to learn that the toilet seat at home is becoming the gold standard for office and even... Read More
I was searching for historical material for a Labour Day blog post when I discovered that there are walking tours in Vancouver focusing on working class life and labor history—commemorating the importance of labor... Read More
Since the early 1990s we have shaped our medical practices in various ways, such as with evidence-based medicine, translational medicine, narrative medicine, evolutionary medicine, personalized medicine, and precision... Read More
I always thought that the primum non nocere injunction to physicians came from the fertile minds of Galen or Hippocrates, but I discovered that the elegant English version, first, do no harm, is attributed to Dr Thomas... Read More