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Editorials / BY: Anne I. Clarke, MD December 2017
... on the process of going to new country, to work with new people, and into a new position—sounds, er, great, ... help? Frankly it was all overwhelming, with support from people I didn’t really know yet, in a place where I was so ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD December 2017
... in a cave somewhere in Outer Mongolia, sites exist where people can leave reviews about their physician (or lawyer, ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD December 2017
... one” as the newest recruit. The others told me, “People in town are really considerate; it won’t be that ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD January/February 2017
... There is usually passion, and sometimes evidence that people have been thinking about their topic for months. ... close ones in that way. They are such interesting people when they talk about their true passions, and ... up largely without talking or listening much to actual people who are not their teachers. It’s not the same thing ...
Letters / BY: R.A. Rockerbie, PhD January/February 2017
... traffic deaths could merely mean that more people were using the drug, not necessarily that more people were under the influence of marijuana. The doubling in ...
News January/February 2017
... Project MinE will map the full DNA profiles of 15 000 people with ALS and 7500 control subjects to establish a ... Project MinE would allow for the stored DNA profiles of people with ALS to be contributed to the project, and it ...
News / BY: Eric Wong January/February 2017
... of becoming disabled vary among individuals, but for many people the odds might be higher than you would expect, and it ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2017
... prolonged dying with poor symptom control has made people even more fearful of the dying process. And society ... which the MAID is provided, because it is well known that people’s desire for hastened death can change over time[ 1 ... a study at a Seattle Cancer Centre[ 2 ] showed that of 114 people who inquired into the Death with Dignity program, ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS January/February 2017
... with you. RAAs will help you connect with the right people and the appropriate resources at Doctors of BC to get ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark W. Tyndall, MD, ScD, FRCPC March 2017
... by law enforcement. Most of the deaths have occurred among people with long-standing opiate use, and the explanation for ... the risk. There are myriad reasons and events that launch people into habitual drug use—trauma, personal tragedy, ... indifference to the pain, suffering, and even death of people who buy drugs from the illicit market. If we ...