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Premise / BY: Ali Zentner, MD, FRCPC, Diplomate ABOM Early online
... The weight of the matter Worldwide, more than 240 million people have symptomatic and activity-limiting osteoarthritis ... 1 ] In Canada, arthritis affects more than 6 million people. More than 23% of women and 17% of men in Canada live ... to 56% of patients were women.[ 3 ] More than 650 million people worldwide have obesity,[ 1 ] currently defined as a ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Eiko Waida, MD, FRCPC, FAAP* March 2024
... and the organization. The IHA PQI dyadic model activates people’s agency on an interpersonal level with the hope and ...
Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... with in your practice. The feeling I got from a lot of people was that they were at their wits’ end, there was no ... your approach to spreading that optimism to get more people helping you on that journey? I can start at the micro ... ever changed anything in the world is a group of committed people committing to make a difference along a common path. ...
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 ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... and education about Canada’s treatment of Indigenous people. It has been humbling to discover the multitude of ... deficit-based language in articles that discuss Indigenous people is one thing the Editorial Board has been working on. ... may be well intentioned; however, historically, Indigenous people have been made into research subjects and described in ...
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 ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD January/February 2024
... physicians to do the work at hand. An estimated 1 million people in BC do not have a family physician. An article in ...
Premise / BY: Clara MacDonald, MSc, MD April 2024
... that second victim syndrome often goes unrecognized.[ 15 ] People may also be unwilling to discuss their experiences ...
Premise / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) January/February 2024
... there is a crisis in primary care. Almost one-third of people who want a family doctor can’t find one, and even people who have a family physician generally find them quite ... and emotionally. We believe greater availability to the people who count on us for care is the critical, needed ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH Early online
... still. For every road death, there are severalfold more people requiring hospitalization or other health care due to ...