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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 ...
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 ...
Letters / BY: Douglas C. Drummond, MD January/February 2005
In the September issue of this journal, several articles reviewed and endorsed ... have not proven their worth. To support their view, they may cite the AD2000 reported earlier this year. [2]  While ... new era of treatable Alzheimer disease,” September 2004  [1]  has generated and for the opportunity to respond ...
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 ...
Letters / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) May 2004
... the trial as presented in January/February’s issue of the  BCMJ  ( 2004;46[1]:21-23 ) does not appear to be a valid test of the ... therapies, and giving front-page status to such articles may give credit where it is not due. —Lloyd Oppel, MD ...
Letters / BY: Roger S. Tonkin, MDCM, FRCPC, OBC June 2004
... is to be commended for its excellent two-part theme issue on child maltreatment, and Dr Marie Hay’s article, ... sexual exploitation of children and youth”  (BCMJ 2004;46(3):119-122)  is particularly timely and should help ... for parent support, and for males). Any BC organization may apply for funding and readers are referred to the ...
Letters / BY: Peter Rees, PhD, FRCPC December 2004
The authors of the BCMJ theme issue “The new era of treatable Alzheimer disease” ( September 2004;[7]:332-347 ) strongly condone the efficacy of ... will have learned of AD 2000 in the lay press during May. Because of the publication time line of the  BCMJ  ...
Letters / BY: Paul R. Latimer, MD July/August 2004
In the May issue of the BCMJ ( 2004;46[4]:164 ) you have defended your decision to publish ... research on disorders without defined pathology. You may still argue that your decision to publish an article has ...