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Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
... of cannabis products in the surveyed period (February to April 2018) ( Figure 1 ).[ 11 ] Approximately 8% of all users ... you’re looking at this scientifically, you might have an issue with the correlation of use to health risks, because ... urine drug screen, more than quadrupled between 2005 and 2014 (from 146 to 639).[ 25 ] That trend will continue ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn Thorpe, MD, FRCPC July/August 2018
... shortage of psychiatric resources. During 2 weeks in March 2014 nearly a quarter of the patients seen by UHS family ... (229 of 981) presented with mental health concerns. In April 2014 psychiatrists reviewed records for 24 psychiatric ... “Pit often helps me answer and move forward with an issue that I’m stuck on with a patient. Instead of waiting ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Fahra Rajabali, MSc September 2018
... care system, and society at large. This public health issue directly affects the practice of physicians who must ... at the Vancouver General Hospital Trauma Centre in 2014.[ 19 ] The program addresses alcohol as a risk factor, ... Following the public health emergency declared in BC in April 2016,[ 21 ] many programs were developed to prevent ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Courtney Young, MBA, MD, FRCPC December 2017
... attention was focused on how QI could favorably affect the issue of medical errors. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) was ... Transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Accessed 1 April 2017. ... November 2016. www.waittimealliance.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/CCS-Building-a-Heart-Healthy-Canada.pdf . Institute ...
Letters / BY: Allan Donkin, MD, June 2014
In his letter published in the April issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:124-125) , Dr John Dale claims there are errors of ...
Letters / BY: C. Eve Rotem, MD, July/August 2014
... all too often. I am glad to see discussions on this thorny issue are finally beginning. Without an accepted policy being ... this difficult problem (to the best of our abilities in 2014). And I believe the problem should be discussed with a ... for so many years. This discussion has been started in the April and May issues of the  BC Medical Journal  and that ...
Obituaries / BY: Jane Cowan, PhD, September 2014
... surgeon in British Columbia, died peacefully at home on 21 April 2014. Born in Scarborough, Ontario, and raised in Toronto, Dr ... discussing with residents the contents of the first issue of a new journal, Oculoplastic Surgery. Dr Cowan ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD June 2013
... this editorial is about you, the physician, who on 1 April 2014 will be handed the spoils of the failed Health Canada ... authorization and dispensing of medical marijuana. The issue of how physicians will be audited for authorizing a ...