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Premise / BY: Ali Zentner, MD, FRCPC, Diplomate ABOM June 2024
... times of glucose elevation. It was approved in Canada in 2018 for the management of type 2 diabetes at a dose of 0.5 ... of women with obesity? A different way to address the issue of risk may be to change the system in which we practise. Obesity, by ...
Premise / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI May 2023
... from the guidelines panel in 2011,[ 13 ] and again in 2018.[ 8 ] In 2019, the Minister of Health stated that ... density; 36% have category C: heterogeneously dense, which may obscure small masses; and 7% have category D: extremely ... a modified mammogram machine, so claustrophobia is not an issue, and it is a fraction of the cost of MRI. However, it ...
Premise, COVID-19 / BY: Brandon Tang, MD, MSc September 2021
... educational adaptations that emerged from the pandemic may continue to benefit future generations of trainees. ... contacts in the event of an outbreak. To address this issue, RDBC collaborated with UBC Postgraduate Medical ... for resident physicians can be enhanced. Since 2018, RDBC has incorporated mandatory occupational health and ...
Premise / BY: James M. Wright, MD, PhD, FRCPC April 2019
The November 2018 issue of the BCMJ included two articles about diabetes ... we agree with those who have concluded that conflicts may introduce insidious biases with the potential to impair ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... Yet, for the person receiving the diagnosis, it may turn out to be not only a label for a condition, but a ... that are given their own diagnosis. Opportunities to issue diagnoses are further expanded as some issues in human ... expanding disease and producing disease. J Eval Clin Pract 2018;24:978-982. Lea M, Hofmann B. Dediagnosing – a novel ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... brought my attention to an article in the 2 December 2017 issue: “Gay twin may offer an answer to mystery of our sexuality.” The ... in his home town of Winnipeg, he took his own life.  In 2018 we are still in the dark about the way our sexual ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... to themselves. In some situations the exhausted physician may even consider the symptoms to be a mark of heroism, of ... cowardliness in the line of fire) is a legitimate health issue. Monday, 10 September is World Suicide Prevention Day. ... reading Lynn Holden. ABC Bookworld. Accessed 10 September 2018. https://abcbookworld.com/writer/holden-lynn.  Blog ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... What brought this to my attention was a report in a recent issue of the Economist , “Not enough is known about the ... discs, or other hygienic products. Each of these devices may need changing several times a day over 4 to 6 days each ... Medieval to modern menstruation. Kt by Knix. 23 May 2018. Accessed 4 January 2023. ...
Blog / BY: Amanda Lavigne, BScPN
... helps raise awareness of the impacts of stigma and may increase motivation to change stigmatizing behaviors and ... Harms related to substance use remain a top public health issue in virtually every jurisdiction across Canada. In ... for tackling stigma in the health care setting In April 2018 the Interior Health Authority launched the Use Safe ...
Blog / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC
... distribution.[ 2 ] Inequality has become a hot button issue in the politics of Western liberal democracies. It has ... amplify results. Farnum Street [blog]. Accessed 15 May 2019. https://fs.blog/2017/11/power-laws .  2.   ... cities, and countries. New York, NY: Penguin Books; 2018. 3.    Piketty T. Capital in the twenty-first ...