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Letters / BY: Ray Baker, MD January/February 2008
... and a regular family physician to substance-addicted people on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is clearly one of ... that homeless, socially unstable, and/or doctorless people are more likely to suffer from addictions (see  ...
Letters / BY: Ian A. MacDonald, MD, FRCPC April 2008
... is that they are foisted on already-marginalized people. If you are an addicted doctor, lawyer, pharmacist, ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD April 2008
... Not everyone has had scientific training, but most people are willing to learn. Editors are happy to consider a ...
Letters / BY: Ray Baker, MD May 2008
... we treat on a daily basis. The argument that “people are dying” and “we must do something” cannot be ...
Letters / BY: Doug McFee, MD May 2008
... their AGM for several years. I personally contacted the people involved for the Law Society and arranged for this ...
Back Page / BY: Conrad Moralis, MD, May 2008
... in Vancouver, at times approach­ing sleeping homeless people, leaving a cup by their side and walking away.  When ... husband wanted to call him Jesus, but the Vital Statistics people told us that Jesus was not a proper name for a child ...
Letters / BY: H. Davis, MD, June 2008
... the role of this medical specialty in the care of people with alleged traumatic brain injury. In 1999, at the ...
Back Page / BY: Graham C. Fraser, FRCS, FACS July/August 2008
... The vast examination hall resembled a railway station with people scattered about, some in groups and others in twos and ...
Back Page / BY: William A. Falk, MD, FCFPC, FRCGP September 2008
... the money. The biggest untapped source of money? We, the people. We often see references to the need for people to take more responsibility for their own health care. ... in order to pay doctor and hospital bills. In fact, most people do not generate large medical bills in any one year, ...
Letters / BY: Paul K.B. Dagg, MD, FRCPC, October 2008
... ex­cellent one that highlights the challenges of care for people with concurrent developmental disability and mental ... “there is no acute mental health crisis resource for people with DD outside the usual emergency and inpatient ... Authority (NHA) for the past year.  We do not exclude people from admission on the basis of IQ and do admit clients ...