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MDs To Be, COVID-19 / BY: Brooke Cheng May 2022
... at work and in public settings.[ 2 , 3 ] While this story may surprise some, it is just one of thousands of anecdotes ... and to celebrate racial diversity, the SARS outbreak in 2003 demonstrated the speed at which we can revert to ... outcome as critical as patient safety and care, then this issue must be treated as one of utmost importance. It is also ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD October 2018
... morbidity and mortality associated with activities that may cause harm. Harm reduction applied to substance use is a ... hepatitis C virus and HIV transmission.[ 5 ] Therefore, in 2003, consistent with best practice, needle distribution and ... harm-reduction services. Physicians can help address the issue of marginalization by examining their own assumptions ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bruce Gamage, RN, CIC May 2006
Recent outbreaks in Canada, including the 2003 SARS outbreak, and the emergence of a virulent strain ... health care-facility norovirus outbreaks have brought the issue closer to home. These events made it clear that ... horizontal, and non-hierarchical fashion. In May and December of 2005, PICNet held stakeholder summits, at ...
MDs To Be / BY: Paul Dhillon, MBBChBAO, LRCP&SI, EMDM, CCFP, DRCOG, DTM&H(Lon), FRGS March 2005
... provision was provided by polling results released in late 2003. Thousands of Canadians were polled in a survey ... and in the hospital.” Although some of these people may choose not to have a family physician, a visit to most ... the care they provide in hospitals.” [2]  This issue is addressed through greater awareness and the growing ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: M. Fyfe, MD, MSc June 2004
... continued its westward spread across North America in 2003, but did not enter British Columbia. The risk that the ... illnesses were West Nile fever, a dengue-like illness that may present with fever, headache, fatigue, myalgia, ... to the related paper by Dr Bigham on page 220 of this issue of the BCMJ. Reportability in BC Physicians must report ...