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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2017
... to sleep on the carpet. What I found interesting was that people didn’t even notice us and continued to talk as they ...
Editorials / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS March 2017
... scenarios in a busy clinician’s practice. While most people in British Columbia and Canada will age with few ...
News / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD March 2017
... sources, and an index. Scots, French, and Aboriginal people established the lucrative fur trade in the area under ...
News / BY: Laura McLean March 2017
... to disease. They predict a chilling effect: if people suspect they will be denied insurance, they may avoid ... and to research that depends on genetic testing. If people do undergo testing that reveals risk factors, they may ... privacy advocates worry about potential mishandling of people’s most sensitive medical information. As science ...