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Beyond Medicine / BY: Thomas S. Watson, MD, DPhil March 2021
... and Wylie of Laval University conducted a short review in 2014 and identified what they viewed as the most significant issue with existing studies supporting ultrasound: the ... physicians at initial presentation of minor blunt trauma may in fact speed up rib fracture diagnosis by helping triage ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
... you’re looking at this scientifically, you might have an issue with the correlation of use to health risks, because one “daily user” may smoke all day, every day, and another “daily user” ... urine drug screen, more than quadrupled between 2005 and 2014 (from 146 to 639).[ 25 ] That trend will continue ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2016
... in health care today. We need not look further than the 2014 comparative scorecard from the Commonwealth Fund ... like to bring to the Board this year is temperance. This may help us be more efficient with our work.” . . . “To ... is not a productive use of our time and energy. The issue is that our two work models simply clash. Doctors are ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Will Offley, RN December 2016
... are not the same thing. There are many ways an individual may be infected with influenza despite having had the annual ... As an example, many infections occurred in the 2014–15 flu season when there was a mismatch between the ... and in the absence of an outbreak.”[ 12 ] Also at issue is the practical matter of wearing masks. It appears ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC December 2016
... to those they care for, and they do work while sick and may transmit influenza while asymptomatically shedding ... the arbitrator in Ontario that Mr Offley quotes) is on the issue of whether there is any additional benefit to an ... of protection from year to year (from the low of 13% in 2014–15 to over 80% in 2010–11 in Canada with an accepted ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2016
... all the generalist pieces of being a family doctor my dad may not have had an opportunity that day to receive the best ... the health care needs of our populations. What health care issue do you think is not getting enough attention right now? ... First, the Commonwealth Fund released a report in late 2014 showing that Canada scores 10th out of 11 in First World ...
News / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD March 2015
... project seeking literary works described in the September 2014 issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:349 ) is meant to honor existing ... meantime, an information seeker visiting abcbookworld.com may search for the key words “physician author” to find ...
News July/August 2014
... in Antiviral Immunity,” is published in the May 2014 issue of  Nature Medicine  and is available online ...
News July/August 2014
... levels can dramatically affect learning and memory, and may play a role in the cognitive deficits associated with ... β-catenin Stabilization in Vivo,” is published in June 2014 issue of the  Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
News&Notes / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2014
Annual Business Meeting and General Assembly  Saturday, 31 May 2014 • Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver This year’s Annual ... clarified that the increase came largely from a severance issue that occurred, not primarily from hiring new staff. Dr ...