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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
MDs To Be / BY: Christian Wiens, BSc(Pharm), May 2009
... Nonetheless, more is required. Although the most recent 2007 Canadian Medical Association guidelines state that ... residency training.”[ 3 ] The CMA does not opine on the issue of lecturer conflicts of interest in medical school ... their relationship with the pharmaceutical industry may affect their judgment. Regrettably, the British Columbia ...
Letters / BY: H. Davis, MD, June 2008
... Anderson and Shao Hua Lu [ BCMJ 2008;50(1):11 ] have taken issue with some of the comments made in my article published in your journal in November 2007 [ BCMJ 2007;49(9):495 ], where I did express concern ... or confused. • Focal neurological deficits that may or may not be transient. As can be seen, and I emphasized ...
Letters / BY: Michael Dettman, MD, March 2008
... to do a history and physical [“ Back to basics ,” BCMJ 2007;49:530]. Her des­cription of a “young emergency ... such jobs on the ground floor of hospitals. This editorial may change the face of emergency medicine and the ... course, the requisite extensive and lengthy study of the issue. —Michael Dettman, MD Emergency physician, VGH ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2007
The article in the March issue of  BCMJ  ( “Self-report of use of traditional ... a cross-cultural psychiatry outpatient clinic,” 2007;49[2]:68-71 ) reported 20% of Chinese patients attending ... and not specifically for emotional symptoms. Panax ginseng may cause manic-like symptoms when combined with monoamine ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD March 2007
I read with concern the Vancouver Sun article of 4 January 2007, in which Dr Penny Ballem states that she has good data ... to aggressively “treat to target,” so a patient may not be started on oral agents early enough or, if a ... for glycemic control, but diabetes management is a complex issue and isn’t just a question of blood glucose levels. ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Faulkner, MBChB July/August 2007
... “Reality check needed for CME credits” ( BCMJ  2007;49[3]:109) , which included a partial, out-of-context ... 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 ...