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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 ...
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 ...
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: 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, ... between 2007 and 2010 and is reported to be at 25.3% in 2012.[ 2 ] The proportion of  S. pneumoniae  nonsusceptible ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... explicit shaming of physicians. The so-called evaluations may be based on time spent in the doctor’s waiting room, ... appear to be particularly well attended. The bothersome issue is that neither the good nor the shaming comments are ... commenting about the outcome of their efforts. In a 2012 CMAJ article by Roger Collier, “Professionalism: ...
Blog / BY: Amanda Lavigne, BScPN
... helps raise awareness of the impacts of stigma and may increase motivation to change stigmatizing behaviors and ... Harms related to substance use remain a top public health issue in virtually every jurisdiction across Canada. In ... Service. Illicit drug toxicity deaths in BC: January 1, 2012 - January 31, 2022. Accessed 7 April 2022. ...