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President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD November 2021
... colleagues on the front lines, people working in public health, politicians, government employees, health care researchers, and teachers … the list goes on. ... to contribute to it. I’m going to keep sending thank-you notes to people. I’m going to keep encouraging people who ...
News, COVID-19 July/August 2021
... by Dr Babak Shadgan, a researcher at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, the study concluded that IRT ... active and well-developed COVID-19 infection. Underlying health conditions, stress, pregnancy, certain medications, ... can also alter someone’s surface body temperature. He notes that this can result in a false positive or false ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC May 2021
... Children’s and Women’s, BC Cancer, Providence Health Care, and the UBC Clinical Research Ethics Board. ... with UBC can get started at www.rise.ubc.ca/guidance-notes-and-tutorials . Acknowledgments Dr Dunne would like to ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD March 2021
... little anger, a few tears, a departure from their speaking notes. Others demonstrate care through service, such as pinch ... We need to convince more people to follow public health directions, even as high-risk and vulnerable people ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) September 2021
... to stay home and bang pots at 7 p.m. daily in tribute to health care heroes. The spider-bitten, no longer fearful of ... of the royal crest of England. ¶ I wish each of you health and happiness as we and the public we serve emerge ... elevatum pressura sanguinem ) and those in need of work notes ( litteras excusationem ab opereor ) or prescription ...
News, COVID-19 October 2020
A team from Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University has made ... blood samples from critically ill patients at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC). They build on a growing body ... statistical methods and artificial intelligence. The team notes that predicting a patient’s disease severity can help ...
Letters / BY: Shelley Ross, MD January/February 2020
... the foundation for efficient, effective, and sustainable health care is well supported by evidence and is now being acknowledged broadly by government policymakers, health care administrators, and our medical associations as ... for change, however, goes beyond compensation. As Dr Brown notes, physicians need to be supported by a network that ...
Premise, COVID-19 / BY: Brandon Tang, MD, MSc September 2020
Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, each day has come with new announcements ... our Canadian borders have closed in the spirit of public health and safety. In the midst of these changes, the ... employers to abandon the practice of asking for sick notes,[ 18 ] public health offices are offering a general ...
Editorials / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD November 2019
... to her GP, they only discussed them in their consultation notes. Third, for various reasons, she often had her CT scans ... allowed to do so. The responsibility for knowing your own health history should be shared between you as the patient and your health care provider. Steps are being taken to allow patients ...
MDs To Be / BY: Azzra Mangalji, MD October 2019
In 2014 the BC Ministry of Health’s report, “Setting Priorities for the BC Health System,” outlined information management and ... medical records (EMRs) to enter or retrieve patient notes, an increase from 26% in 2007.[ 4 ] More recently, the ...