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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 ...
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 ...
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: 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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D. Sandberg, RRT, April 2013
... of services in the Northern Health Authority. Home oxygen may be funded by extended health benefits, if available to ... 1 minute. In accordance with the criteria in effect since 2007, outpatient testing requires an exercise ox­imetry ... of home oxygen remains a concern and continues to be an issue for some patients. For example, in Vancouver Coastal ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alison Granger-Brown, MA, December 2012
... and increase motivation for change—something that may be sustained after release from prison. Women in BC’s ... for Aboriginal women By Lara-Lisa Condello   From May 2007 to May 2010, over 100 women in prison participated in ... 25 ]  Infant safety has not been reported as an issue in numerous countries where prison infant and mother ...
MDs To Be / BY: Katie Wiskar, BSc, October 2012
... and preventive health care among physicians.  The 2007 Physician Health Survey conducted by E. Frank and C. ... whole foods.  In addition to overall diet, the issue of workplace nutrition has recently received some ... ubiquity of inadequate nutrition among physicians, as they may result in decreased quality of patient care and medical ...
Clinical Articles / BY: S.E. Lord, MD, April 2010
... every day. Further reductions in the incidence of PT may depend on more sophisticated insights into the ... of an in-depth evaluation of a complex public health issue. In future, data on socioeconomic risks can be used to ... Trauma Association of Canada annual meeting in Ottawa in 2007. The authors are indebted to the British Columbia Trauma ...