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Premise / BY: Clara MacDonald, MSc, MD April 2024
... and prescribing incorrectly. The speakers addressed each issue in turn. When it came time to speak to the concerns ... 1-3 ] According to a Canadian study published in 2004, 7.5% of patients experience at least one adverse event ... primary victims of adverse events, but caring physicians may also be deeply affected.[ 4 ] Second victim syndrome, a ...
Premise / BY: Judith Marois, April 2010
Whether to accept gifts from patients is a thorny issue, made even more fraught in the psychiatric context. ... to the physician’s service, significant monetary gifts may imply that the patient is offering the physician a tip. ... among the Canadian provinces that the CMA Code of Ethics (2004) and the CMA Charter for Physicians (1999) are the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: M. Fyfe, MD, MSc June 2004
... Columbia. The risk that the virus will move into BC during 2004 remains high. There is also a risk that BC residents ... 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 ...