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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 ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC April 2023
... Health Initiative hormone therapy trial in 2002 and 2004, fears about hormone therapy hit the press, and the ... BCMJ articles on managing menopause in the October 2022 issue (insert winking emoji). The ongoing challenge is ... versus benefits need to be individualized. Practitioners may struggle to find the time for a thorough discussion on ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Brian F. Russell, MD, September 2011
... 1 ] However, mounting evidence suggests that vitamin D may also influence cardiovascular disease, hypertension, ... 104 confirmed cases of rickets in Canada between 2002 and 2004; 13% were of First Nations descent and 12% of Inuit ... to assist physicians in managing this important health issue ( www.cps.ca/english/statements/ii/fnim07-01.htm ).  ...
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 ...
Editorials / BY: Gavin Stuart, MD, Dean, UBC Faculty of Medicine, September 2008
... University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Medicine. In May 2008, the first class of medical students from the ... 72 students were added to the incoming class in 2004.  As you can imagine, this was neither a simple task ... for its innovative programs. The articles in this theme issue depict aspects of the expansion and describe physician ...
Letters / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC May 2006
The  January/February 2006 issue of the BCMJ [48(1):14-15]  contains a report by the BC ... as a result of the home hemodialysis program launched in 2004, considerable cash savings have been made by training ... expensive hospital dialysis units. This is good news, but may I re mind you that, as reported in the CMAJ, [1]  the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP May 2006
... article on this topic appears in the 14 March 2006 issue of the CMAJ.) This means we all stand a better chance ... we exercise on a regular basis. As active as we think? In 2004, the BC Nutrition Survey found that although 80% of ... 30 but remain stable thereafter in both men and women. In May 2005, the Heart and Stroke Foundation (HSF) released its ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) September 2006
... of us in practice, answering patients’ concerns on this issue can be daunting, particularly if we are presented with ... just by chance. In addition, many “findings of harm” may be insignificant, inaccurate, or simply taken out of ... supplementation. American Academy of Family Physicians. 2004 American Academy of Family Practice policy statement on ...
Editorials / BY: B. Lynn Beattie, MD, FRCPC November 2005
... overview with important recommendations. In a previous issue (BCMJ September 2004;46[7], “The new era of treatable Alzheimer disease”) ... the possibility that more than one pathological entity may be affecting the brain and causing symptoms. An ...
Letters / BY: Ken Bassett, MD, PhD December 2005
... in Letter #48: 1. We did not write that “statins may do more harm than good in patients without a myocardial ... in the SAE rate quoted in the publication.” However, in 2004 the statistician for PROSPER stated the opposite ... considered in depth in the academic literature. [3] One issue worth highlighting relates to mortality from statin ...