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Letters / BY: Mark Mallet, MD, CCFP March 2024
... [ BCMJ 2023;65:365-366]: “as many as 225 000 [people] are at risk of poisoning from unregulated drugs, [but] only 4476 people were prescribed safe supply medications in July ... The impression these numbers give is that fewer than 5000 people out of 225 000 are receiving treatment. In both Dr ...
Letters / BY: Jill Norris, MD, CCFP May 2024
... and have come to this conclusion: good health care enables people to live their best lives. Good health care shows up ...
BC Stories / BY: Lauren Lypchuk, MD, CCFP January/February 2024
... medical student in Scotland, who was taking elderly people for free rides in the community on a specialized ... days/week, May through October, with 45 volunteers taking people out for free rides. We have now taken 1000+ seniors on ... out from the confines of their residences. We meet many people along the way (I counted more than 200 one ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC April 2024
... hands. Stating the obvious, I also assumed that other people’s children were in excellent hands with me. So, when ...
Letters / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH March 2024
... decreased drug poisoning and all-cause mortality among people receiving safer supply.[ 1 ] The number of people at risk of illicit drug poisoning in BC is large, and ... a team of BC researchers identified a provincial cohort of people with substance use disorder comprising 162 099 ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC May 2024
... resources. Canada has 2.6 hospital beds for every 1000 people, which is behind almost every Organisation for ... BC has even less—a mere 1.95 hospital beds per 1000 people. Canada also has significantly fewer physicians ... to reaching the OECD average of 4.3 hospital beds per 1000 people by 2035, doubling our current operating room capacity, ...
Obituaries / BY: Gillian Hodge, MD January/February 2024
... Bella Bella. In those days, evacuation of sick and injured people from remote communities was difficult. Roger had to ... assistance. He gained the trust and friendship of many people along the Central Coast—friendships that endured for ... manner made him many friends among the local Indigenous people. In the mid-1980s, Roger moved to Vancouver, where he ...
Editorials / BY: Terri Aldred, MD April 2024
... disease) form the most common stereotypes about Indigenous people in Canada. When I entered medical school, lecture ... I was well aware of the health disparities Indigenous people faced, and I recognized that bringing awareness was ... factor, and this perpetuates the narrative of Indigenous people being sick, harboring disease, and being at fault for ...
News January/February 2024
... over the next 3 years by age group, starting with people 55 and older. All self-collected samples will be ...
Obituaries / BY: Al Kallas, MD March 2024
... one of the smallest boats in the harbor, with the most people in the cockpit. There were many cruises, including to ...