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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 ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2017
... prolonged dying with poor symptom control has made people even more fearful of the dying process. And society ... which the MAID is provided, because it is well known that people’s desire for hastened death can change over time[ 1 ... a study at a Seattle Cancer Centre[ 2 ] showed that of 114 people who inquired into the Death with Dignity program, ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC December 2016
... and influenza experts continue to recommend that people get vaccinated against influenza if they are at higher ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) June 2012
... care” can all mean different things to different people.  All of the foregoing labels can be used to describe ... we live in a libertarian society where, within limits, people have the freedom to make choices other than the most ... who will note that the Samueli Institute is headed by people trained in “mind/body methods, spiritual healing, ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Hal D. Gunn, MD, June 2012
... reduce the risk of recurrence and improve survival of people with cancer (and thus, substantially reduce overall ... since high distress levels are common among people living with cancer. In a recent study of over 3000 ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Paul K.B. Dagg, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2010
... that we encounter on a regular basis in transporting people with psychiatric illness within the province of BC ... care in our PICU, adult, and geriatric programs for people from throughout the northern and southern interiors of ... of our providing tertiary services we provide care for people who cannot be cared for in general hospitals in their ...
Blog / BY: Sharadh Sampath, MD, FRCSC
... we’re still accepting of discrimination against people who suffer from obesity.   If we’re honest with ... gluttony, or weakness. We can make jokes about fat people and rarely get called on it. We talk about how ... an excellent way to undermine the struggles that these people are going through. The truth is, obesity is a medical ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... trainees to effectively meet the health care needs of the people they serve. No better time than now, with the havoc ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... But she emphasized that that is not necessarily how the people surrounding the dying cope or grieve. What has stood ... for me in the last 2 months is how understanding and kind people have been to me. I had loads of emails to answer and ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... access to quality medical literature of the time to people around the world. A committee of world experts ...