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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Emma Cumming, MSc January/February 2018
... Beach on English Bay. Crowds have grown from around 10 000 people in 2012 to 40 000 in 2017.[ 2,3 ] After noticing a ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC March 2018
... naloxone by providing no-cost take-home naloxone kits to people at risk of witnessing or experiencing an overdose. ... supportive-housing staff, and those who work directly with people at risk of overdose. This interactive, self-guided ... and pharmacies. Patients, friends, or family of people at risk of opioid overdose can complete a thorough ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD January/February 2018
... a network as “a group or system of interconnected people or things.” A community is defined as “a group of people living in the same place or having a particular ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP June 2018
... overflowing on my desk. I went to medical school to help people, not push paper. Forms for consults. Forms for ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP June 2018
... do you most admire? My colleagues working hard to care for people in communities and facilities despite increasing ... characteristic? An aqualine nose and a staunch belief in people’s good. What do you most value in your colleagues? ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Eleni Galanis, MD, MPH, FRCPC April 2018
... recently, nor has she had contact with other symptomatic people. A stool C&S performed at a walk-in clinic was ... and symptoms persist, a second O&P may be necessary. People are infected by ingesting contaminated food or water. ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP July/August 2018
... passionately about issues while respecting each other as people worthy of belonging. Because no matter our individual ...
Proust for Physicians July/August 2018
... What is your greatest fear? Seeing pain and suffering in people I love. What is the trait you most deplore in ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP September 2018
... antivaccine movement counters with tales of profits-over-people, conspiracies to control individual freedoms, and ... misses the point: to achieve the goals of healthier people and societies, stories are exactly what we need.  ... and stories in our style to build bridges and appeal to people’s hearts as well as their heads.  And if using our ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM September 2018
... post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN). PHN is more common in older people, affecting 4% to 15% of zoster cases in people aged 50 to 59, 7% to 26% of cases in people aged 60 to 69, and 14% to 29% of cases in people 70 ...