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Letters / BY: Ray Baker, MD January/February 2008
... and a regular family physician to substance-addicted people on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is clearly one of ... that homeless, socially unstable, and/or doctorless people are more likely to suffer from addictions (see  ...
Premise / BY: Jamie Graham, April 2008
People have every reason to be confused about Vancouver’s ... to do their job. There is a huge untold story here. People have become used to thinking of the DTES as a centre ... when 40 additional officers patrolled the DTES in 2003. People walked the street in safety, baby strollers were ...
Letters / BY: Ian A. MacDonald, MD, FRCPC April 2008
... is that they are foisted on already-marginalized people. If you are an addicted doctor, lawyer, pharmacist, ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD April 2008
... Not everyone has had scientific training, but most people are willing to learn. Editors are happy to consider a ...
Letters / BY: Ray Baker, MD May 2008
... we treat on a daily basis. The argument that “people are dying” and “we must do something” cannot be ...
Letters / BY: Doug McFee, MD May 2008
... their AGM for several years. I personally contacted the people involved for the Law Society and arranged for this ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Helen Novak Lauscher, PhD May 2008
For most people in British Columbia, the family physician provides an ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Borys Flak, MD, FRCPC, May 2008
... in­creases significantly after age 50.  More than 700 people die of CRC annually in BC alone, each losing an ...
Letters / BY: H. Davis, MD, June 2008
... the role of this medical specialty in the care of people with alleged traumatic brain injury. In 1999, at the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, June 2008
... in many circumstances, they can be less effective with people who are not of Northern European heritage.  The ... disease, or stroke) there may be as many as 1.5 million people, or up to one-third of the BC population, who require ...