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BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
March 2015
... project seeking literary works described in the September 2014 issue ( BCMJ 2014;56:349 ) is meant to honor existing ... meantime, an information seeker visiting abcbookworld.com may search for the key words “physician author” to find ...
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July/August 2014
... levels can dramatically affect learning and memory, and may play a role in the cognitive deficits associated with ... β-catenin Stabilization in Vivo,” is published in June 2014 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
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 .[ ...
News
October 2014
The quality of health care that people receive may be as important as controlling the risk factors--smoking, ... and High-Income Countries," is published in the 28 August 2014 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine and is ...
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
July/August 2014
... in Antiviral Immunity,” is published in the May 2014 issue of Nature Medicine and is available online ...
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 ...
President's Comment /
BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM)
November 2013
... to 80%, and will likely reach 85% or more by 31 March 2014. With PITO (Physician Information Technology Office) ... physicians set to retire in the next couple of years, it may make sense to forgo the expense and time-consuming ... typed emergency record the very next morning? In this issue of the BCMJ you can read more about this topic and ...