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Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD October 2010
... small. Without effective intervention, though, they may well become staggering in the future. Preventing ... in dietary and lifestyle habits. This is a very complex issue and intervention must take place at a number of ... obesity and promoting health. It was es­ta­blished in 2005 as a cross-government health promotion initiative and ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Faulkner, MBChB July/August 2007
... and integrative medicine beliefs (see  Globe and Mail , May 1999). His involvement in the very unscientific “harm ... in reading some of the skeptical accounts of this issue ( e.g.,  http://dreamhealer.blogspot.com/ ). Dr ... interesting is that credits for this were given both in 2005 and then again this year. As much as I admire Dr ...
Letters / BY: Leon Bard, MD, June 2006
The winter 2005 issue of the College  Quarterly  (51), a publication ... College  Quarterly  article highlighted a syndrome that may complicate cataract surgery in patients who take ...
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 ... the possibility that more than one pathological entity may be affecting the brain and causing symptoms. An ... receive timely assistance when needed. Medical practice in 2005 requires skill in managing chronic diseases. ...
Editorials / BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD May 2005
In his editorial, “Forced retirement”  (BCMJ 2005;47[4]:165),  Dr Anthony Salvian decries the fact that ... under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The case may be found on the Internet under Stoffmann v. VGH, 1990 ... for such decisions; the word is “curious.” The second issue was that as a university-affiliated teaching hospital ...
Letters / BY: Lloyd Westby, MD September 2005
... response to Dr Jack Burak’s excellent article from April 2005 entitled, “BC’s technologically challenged health ... be scanned into his permanent records. Members may be interested to know that duplicate prescriptions date ... attach these into an EMR system is a significant resource issue as it takes up both the time of the physician and staff ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD April 2005
... of some DSM-IV diagnosis. The findings of the Ipsos-ASI 2005  BCMJ  Readership Survey were released at the end of ... myself. A detailed report on the survey will appear in the May issue, but if you want to see the full results now you can ...
Letters / BY: David Blair, MD December 2005
To achieve some balance, Dr Tildesley  (BCMJ 2005;47[7]:362-363)  should have pointed out to readers that ... pieces (such as Dr Tildesley’s article in the September issue). We agree with Dr Blair that in certain instances it may be appropriate to obtain competing interest statements ...
Letters / BY: Yolanda Butt, BSc, MA May 2002
... the Viking is to represent a physician, a female character may have been more tasteful as more than 55% of the entering ... manner. —Yolanda Butt, BSc, MA UBC Medical Class of 2005    Dr Roey Malleson ends her review of controversial ... falls short of the necessary standards of civility in this issue. Meaning to do well is not always enough. —Will ...
Letters / BY: Robert Grist, MD January/February 2002
... HERS study, ably reviewed by Dr Hammell in your October issue [2001;43(8):447], led to questions about the earlier ... Women’s Health Initiative randomized prospective study may afford us even better data on this by 2005. For our patients, it cannot come soon enough. —Robert ...