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Clinical Articles / BY: Brooke McDonald, MD March 2024
... a long history of providing surgical care in rural BC. In 2007, the enhanced surgical skills and obstetrical surgical ... surgical skills in Canada as of July 2022, although this may underestimate the total family physician surgical ... affected by this inequitable access. Addressing this issue must be prioritized in the effort to decolonize health ...
MDs To Be / BY: Azzra Mangalji, MD October 2019
... enter or retrieve patient notes, an increase from 26% in 2007.[ 4 ] More recently, the role of artificial intelligence ... online retailers to identify additional products a shopper may be interested in based on their previous purchases.[ 6 ] ... representation of populations has been a long-standing issue in the academic community. For example, the Framingham ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andy Jiang, BSc December 2018
... unstudied even though these are undoubtedly also an issue. Since a greater understanding of all-cause poisoning ... results that indicate the risk of unintentional poisonings may be intrinsically linked to a particular developmental ... due to opioids have increased 53% nationwide from 2007/08 to 2016/17,[ 17 ] suggesting that the pattern found ...
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 ... replaced the policy of needle exchange in BC. From 2007 to 2016, HIV diagnoses in people who inject drugs ... harm-reduction services. Physicians can help address the issue of marginalization by examining their own assumptions ...
Letters / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD October 2018
... on Astrocite III , faithfully recorded in the June 1968 issue. Or just let yourself go with “The man who stopped ... Moralis, MD (pseudonym of the retired psychiatrist) in the May 2008 issue. Then you might as well switch back to the January/February 2007 issue and read Dr Leslie Andrew’s humor: “When I ...
Obituaries / BY: Susan Bond January/February 2017
... the medical staff at Cranbrook and District Hospital. In 2007 the Endoscopy Suite at East Kootenay Regional Hospital ... with the College and was a real firebrand on the issue of medical ethics. The ideals of the Hippocratic oath ... 2017 at the Kimberley Elks Club. Donations in his memory may be made to the Kootenay Wildlife Heritage Fund, PO Box ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jeanine C. Marshall, MD, FRCPC September 2017
... health care. The authority to act under Section 59 may continue until the circumstances that resulted in the ... require psychiatric care and ongoing monitoring. When the issue is primarily a social one that does not require the ... being passed by the BC legislature in 1993 and amended in 2007. This leaves six ways that a person can be transferred ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP December 2015
... developed. Often dubbed “walk-in care,” such a system may address the issue of timely access but often fails to offer continuity of ... of a single spike in the use of outside physicians in 2007–2008 ( Figure 2 ).  Data for services by assigned ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sophie Y. Wang, BSc, July/August 2014
... antimicrobial resistance demonstrates the severity of this issue and calls for concerted action among all government ... resource-constrained settings.[ 1 ] The use of carbapenems may also accelerate the development of carbapenem resistance, ... of  E. coli  to ciprofloxacin increased between 2007 and 2010 and is reported to be at 25.3% in 2012.[ 2 ] ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bill Cavers, MD April 2013
... taken on the attachment challenge. A study conducted in 2007–2008 by Victoria-based Hollander Analytical Services ... Practice Services Committee (GPSC) began work on this issue in 2010 and initially provided funding to three ... With the launch of the attachment initiative, any division may now ac­cess funding for attachment initiatives. Given ...