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Point Counterpoint /
BY: Will Offley, RN
December 2016
... are not the same thing. There are many ways an individual may be infected with influenza despite having had the annual ... As an example, many infections occurred in the 2014–15 flu season when there was a mismatch between the ... and in the absence of an outbreak.”[ 12 ] Also at issue is the practical matter of wearing masks. It appears ...
Point Counterpoint /
BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC
December 2016
... to those they care for, and they do work while sick and may transmit influenza while asymptomatically shedding ... the arbitrator in Ontario that Mr Offley quotes) is on the issue of whether there is any additional benefit to an ... of protection from year to year (from the low of 13% in 2014–15 to over 80% in 2010–11 in Canada with an accepted ...
Letters /
BY: William Gardner, MBChB,
April 2014
On 10 February 2014, André Picard’s column in the Globe and Mail ... I was heartened to see that the January/February 2014 issue of the BC Medical Journal had four items on the ... issues. The core problem is a moral one. Though we may disagree with our patients’ moral values, in most cases ...
News&Notes /
BY: Joanne Jablkowski
July/August 2014
Annual Business Meeting and General Assembly Saturday, 31 May 2014 • Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver This year’s Annual ... clarified that the increase came largely from a severance issue that occurred, not primarily from hiring new staff. Dr ...
Letters /
BY: Kobus de Jager, MBBS
September 2014
... average citizen, and perhaps even the average physician, may view death with dignity, a good death, aid in dying, ... physician-assisted suicide as of the same species ( BCMJ 2014;56:6 ). But criminal law draws sharp distinctions ... terminate their life on request? Anyone debating this issue, be it for or against physician-assisted suicide, needs ...
Letters
June 2014
... happy to read [Dr Richardson’s] March editorial ( BCMJ 2014;56:73 ) last week—I am seriously behind on my reading. ... Of interest to you might be an article published in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons .[ ...
Letters /
BY: C. Eve Rotem, MD,
July/August 2014
... all too often. I am glad to see discussions on this thorny issue are finally beginning. Without an accepted policy being ... this difficult problem (to the best of our abilities in 2014). And I believe the problem should be discussed with a ... years. This discussion has been started in the April and May issues of the BC Medical Journal and that is an ...
News&Notes /
BY: Lila Yewchuk, MD, FRCPC,
March 2014
... with Type 1 Diabetes” was published in the June 2012 issue of the BC Medical Journal ( BCMJ 2012;54:232-237 ... school at last. Changes were planned to start in January 2014, with full implementation scheduled for the start of the ... examples of independent plans and other documents that may be of assistance to parents. Further details regarding ...