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News&Notes
December 2017
... British Columbia is on the cusp of great change. Rural health care has met the information technology age and things ... between the author and a strongly supportive Northern Health Authority. It was a proposal that articulated the need ... this program. This article has been peer reviewed. News&Notes Special report: Rural echocardiography in northern BC: ...
Premise /
BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP
May 2017
... difficult conversations about end-of-life care. Exploding health care costs, expanding need for seniors’ health care, opioid overuse, and controversies about futile ... as physicians or our patient’s needs?[ 2 ] Nuland also notes how sometimes physicians will provide false hope in an ...
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BY: Colin Jackson, MD, FRCSC
May 2017
... violence is one of the risks that come with working in health care. Physicians who work in environments where ... A Canadian Medical Association Journal article[ 1 ] notes that almost all primary care physicians experience ... increase with the growing number of patients with mental health and substance abuse problems. The physical and ...