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Clinical Articles / BY: Brooke McDonald, MD March 2024
... collection was conducted between 1 January 2022 and 30 April 2023. MSP billing data for the 2021–2022 fiscal year ... affected by this inequitable access. Addressing this issue must be prioritized in the effort to decolonize health ... piloted a coaching program in seven BC communities in 2017 to connect enhanced surgical skills ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Samantha Pawer, BSc May 2021
... Columbia Research Ethics Board (#H13-01321). From 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2017, hospitalization data for all ages were obtained from ... [ Figure 3 ]. Conclusions Self-poisoning is a considerable issue in BC, where high rates and increasing trends among ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David R. Richardson, MD May 2021
6 April 2021 As this pandemic continues into its second year, ... deaths in 2020 outpaced the next highest recent year (2017) by more than 3600. Last year, the United States noted ... claim that this is not a gun problem but a mental health issue. However, recently a man went on a rampage with a knife ...
Obituaries / BY: Norman D. Finlayson, MD December 2019
... at the age of 89 years in Victoria. Jim was born on 19 April 1930 in Vancouver, where he lived most of his life. He ... read Dr Brad Fritz’s article in the January/February 2017 issue of the BC Medical Journal online at ...
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 ... 304.3.  Date of first visit: January 2015 to October 2017. Inclusion criteria: Self-reported smoking cannabis > 20 ...
Letters / BY: John Walton, MD June 2017
The letters in the April issue by Drs John Albrecht and Robert Brown [ BCMJ  2017;59: 146 , 147 ] bring to the fore the perilous state of ...
Obituaries / BY: Susan Bond January/February 2017
... with the College and was a real firebrand on the issue of medical ethics. The ideals of the Hippocratic oath ... family will hold a memorial gathering in his honor on 8 April 2017 at the Kimberley Elks Club. Donations in his memory may ...
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. ...
News July/August 2017
The April 2017 theme issue of  CNS Spectrums  offers guidelines on ... how to approach patients with mixed feature diagnoses. The issue is edited by psychiatrist Dr Stephen M. Stahl, who also ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... at the cost of patient privacy. Automation is the second issue. While the use of AI promises more time to attend to ... 1.    Harari YN. Homo Deus. Penguin Random House; 2017. p. 380-381. Suggested reading   Harvard T.H. Chan ... artificial intelligence for health care. Accessed 26 April 2022. ...