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Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS March 2024
... Canadian average [ Figure 1 ].[ 1 ] A study conducted in 2012 showed that 158 general surgeons were in full-time ... brevity and clarity): “We don’t have too much of an issue with surgeons, but we do have trouble with shortages of ... Pressure points: Acute care and cancer surgery  Our study may have failed to capture some surgeons who practise as ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Eileen M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP October 2023
... varies significantly based on different methodologies and may not fully capture the nature of anxiety in older people, ... social prescribing alone is insufficient to address this issue. Creating genuine social connections in the community ... for general practitioners” ( www.racgp.org.au/afp/2012/september/acceptance-and-commitment-therapy ) ...
Premise / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI May 2023
... density; 36% have category C: heterogeneously dense, which may obscure small masses; and 7% have category D: extremely ... breast tomosynthesis was approved by Health Canada in 2012, and several sites in BC acquired the technology. It is ... a modified mammogram machine, so claustrophobia is not an issue, and it is a fraction of the cost of MRI. However, it ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Samantha Pawer, BSc May 2021
... Abstract Database, BC Ministry of Health. From 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2017, hospitalizations were extracted from ... [ Figure 3 ]. Conclusions Self-poisoning is a considerable issue in BC, where high rates and increasing trends among ... 19,[ 17 ] mental health and antidepressant accessibility may have contributed to increased self-poisoning rates among ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Thomas S. Watson, MD, DPhil March 2021
... and identified what they viewed as the most significant issue with existing studies supporting ultrasound: the ... from 99% to 100% respectively. Also of note, in their 2012 study, Lee and colleagues diagnosed 64 chondral rib ... physicians at initial presentation of minor blunt trauma may in fact speed up rib fracture diagnosis by helping triage ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Antonia Hyman, MSc April 2020
... sought from an advisory committee that had been formed in 2012. This committee was originally a tripartite ... care and the different perspectives Indigenous patients may have on health and wellness. Shift the definition and ... like to acknowledge that the activities discussed in this issue of the BCMJ took place on the traditional unceded ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
... sales increased by 33% in the last year and by 700% since 2012.[ 8 ] This makes the US cannabis market larger than that ... you’re looking at this scientifically, you might have an issue with the correlation of use to health risks, because one “daily user” may smoke all day, every day, and another “daily user” ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD July/August 2019
... concern (CECs) in transplanted mussels collected in 2012/2013 from locations near urbanized areas around Puget ... of opioids, the Washington study illustrates the larger issue of CECs in the environment and their potential adverse ... impacts. CECs of greatest concern include those which may not pose an immediate effect through acute exposure, as ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn Thorpe, MD, FRCPC July/August 2018
Background Atul Gawande’s 2012 TED Talk about improving health care (How do we heal ... pit appointments. These 36 pit appointments were done in May 2014 and were deemed successful. Subsequently pit ... “Pit often helps me answer and move forward with an issue that I’m stuck on with a patient. Instead of waiting ...
Editorials / BY: Rona E. Cheifetz, MD, MEd, FRCSC, FACS March 2018
... this way. With more coordinated and targeted therapy, it may also be possible to reduce treatment sequelae. Already ... of these concerns and complementing Part 1 of this theme issue, which dealt with diagnosis, Part 2 focuses on initial ... the BC Cancer Centre for the North in Prince George in 2012. The authors report that travel time for patients in the ...