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Clinical Articles / BY: Brooke McDonald, MD March 2024
... performed in the operating room, contact the corresponding author. Results Mapping of surgical sites and personnel A ... receive additional information, contact the corresponding author). Family physicians with enhanced surgical ... this inequity. These physicians require support in the form of robust networks of care, connections with ...
Premise / BY: Clara MacDonald, MSc, MD April 2024
... through regular portfolio sessions, which take the form of individual narrative medicine journaling exercises on ... difficulties faced by students, rather than acting as a form of proactive psychological preparedness education. In ... friends, family, and ourselves. Acknowledgments The author would like to recognize Dr Brenda Griffiths, MD, FRCPC ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elisabeth Baerg Hall, MD, CCFP, FRCPC November 2023
... ADHD diagnosis, the Wender Utah Rating Scale (short form) has well-established reliability for the self-report of ... Care projects that address ADHD in adults. She is a co-author of Skills for Success, a psychoeducational program ... Behavioural Therapy Skills Group Program Referral Form ( ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Courtney Young, MBA, MD, FRCPC December 2017
... was an engineer, mathematician, physicist, statistician, author, professor, and consultant who is perhaps best known ... referral process to improve patient care. A single form (the Vancouver Coastal/Providence Health Care Regional Cardiology Referral Form) (Figure: part 1 , part 2 ) replaces dozens of existing ...
Premise / BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP May 2017
... to provide a sense of their messages, reading each author’s book in its entirety will result in fuller ... by embarking on a futile course of action—“a form of medical ‘doing something’ to deny the hovering ... was first published in 1994 and revised in 2010, when the author commented on the rise of medical ethics committees and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC October 2015
... clinical evidence of direct trauma to the head in the form of bruises, cephalohematoma, and skull fractures. ... in the October 2015 issue ( BCMJ  2015;57:331-335). The author corrected an error that appeared on pages 331, 332, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stacy L. Elliott, MD, November 2011
... reducing nNO. Ra­di­cal prostatectomy in any form (open, laparoscopic, or robotic) often results in ED ... use of papaverine plus phentolamine (bimix) or the diluted form of prostaglandin E1 (10 µg/mL), or more commonly a ... trends of practice in the ED world. Acknowledgments The author acknowledges her colleagues at the BC Centre for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Keith M. Laycock, MB, ChB (Edin), MCFP, Dip Sport Med, March 2011
... designated under the neurology section of the assessment form is the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE). However, there are ... of a fitness to drive assessment. The view of this author is that driver assessment should be or­ganized and ... 65 years of age, the visit will initially involve some form of brief memory test (e.g., the TYM), which may be ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Peter K.Y. Chan, MD, FRCPC, October 2011
... shown favorable res­ponses, but the lack of a parenteral form for patients refusing oral medications limits their ... in seniors experiencing delirium. Acknowledgments The author wishes to thank Dr Robert Hewko for his review of the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Richard A. Bebb, MD, ABIM, FRCPC November 2011
... While it is a point of some controversy, the author recommends the bio­available testosterone test as the ... (gels or patches), or oral testosterone in the form of testosterone undecanoate. All of these delivery modes ... for prostate cancer in the past.[ 4 , 5 ] It is the author’s opinion that a year or two after successful ...