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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2008
... them of ongoing care throughout their illness as many people mistake a DNAR decision as no treatment as well as no ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Bill Mackie, MD March 2008
... mg • Age 71 and older: 1200 mg  However, for those people who have been diagnosed with hypertension, heart ... Journal study published in April 2007 determined that people who ate a salt-reduced diet were 25% to 30% less ... of a few weeks. Sodium is an acquired taste, so most people will need to be weaned off it. It takes 6 to 12 weeks ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG April 2008
... that the BCMJ is a classy little reminder that we are good people doing good work. This, as I’m sure you know, is the ... greatly reassured by such insight. These are indeed good people doing good work. In my academic life I am acutely ... your mammogram and colonoscopy.  —TCR Editorials Good people, good work ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD April 2008
... Dr Richardson, you’d be surprised; there are lot of old people on Facebook.” I then checked his prostate even ... so I will defer judgment. Childbirth is painful, yet people are often happy with the end result (particularly ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP April 2008
... If you are anything like me (one of those average people who put on weight in their thirties and forties), once ... with normal weight unfit individuals, the obese fit people had a lower mortality than those who were unfit and ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD May 2008
... write a letter to your local newspaper—get involved, let people know how bad it really is.  I find myself worrying ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG May 2008
Flying used to be such an adventure, and people actually got dressed up if they were traveling by air. ... no fatalities at all).  I also hate it when uninvolved people become armchair critics, but here goes anyway. The ... environments; by and large, hospitals are filled with sick people, and passenger aircraft are full of (generally) ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC June 2008
... fatal motor vehicle collisions in British Columbia—127 people were killed and 3400 were injured.  Injured, ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD July/August 2008
... become clear. First,  I am impressed that when articulate people present the epistemological grounding required to sort ... out about these philosophically important topics. Most people expect that their doctor is trained in and very aware ...
Editorials / BY: Gavin Stuart, MD, Dean, UBC Faculty of Medicine, September 2008
... a milestone in the history of health care in BC. For people in underserved areas of the province, the reasons for ... hockey arena in Prince George in 2000, when nearly 7000 people gathered to protest a critical lack of rural health ...