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Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC January/February 2011
... over the last 25 years, most physicians in general practice have encountered patients with antibiotic-associated ...
President's Comment / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD January/February 2011
... was to propose that it be a shared care initiative or a practice guidelines template. However, both the Specialist ... do­main, including Heads Up: Brain In­jury in Your Practice ( ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Kur, MD, FRCPC, ABIM April 2011
... ] there have been few attempts to examine demographics and practice issues in rheumatology.  The field of rheumatology has faced a number of changes to clinical practice in recent years, many of which stem from the marked ... about the demand for rheumatological services and the practice patterns of rheumatologists in BC.  National ...
Clinical Articles May 2011
In the average family practice many patients have disease that is either genetic or ... there are so many genetic diseases that any large enough practice will have several patients so afflicted. ... will have a patient with a mitochondrial disease in your practice. As well as remembering that presentations of ...
President's Comment / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD May 2011
... was served with a class action lawsuit alleging that this practice is unfair. The representative plaintiff in this ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC June 2011
... and family practitioners who gave a BC address as their practice address. The response rate was 32% (1673/5199). Of ... phy­sicians’ perceptions of risk in their community of practice. When asked about their patients’ risk of ...
President's Comment / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD June 2011
... not be used routinely in emergency departments, primary practice, and psychiatry.[ 1 ] The screening tool involves ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James Lee, MD, July/August 2011
... duration of action of benzodiazepines. At BCCH, it is our practice not to do this in febrile children with a seizure ... a common adverse effect of barbiturates. At BCCH it is our practice to use barbiturate doses that achieve burst ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kevin Farrell, MBChB, July/August 2011
... that may have masked these clinical features.[ 9 ]  A practice parameter recommends that a lumbar puncture (LP) be ...
MDs To Be / BY: Disha Mehta, BSc, July/August 2011
... Minds team, recently met a patient, Mr X, during a family practice placement. He was new to the practice and was seeking a physician to help him manage ... assistant professor in the UBC Department of Family Practice, and our community mentors, the late Ms Jackie ...