Search

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 ... than annual (0.8 cancers per 1000 screens).[ 38 , 39 ] In 2015, the screening interval for women aged 40 to 49 years ... a modified mammogram machine, so claustrophobia is not an issue, and it is a fraction of the cost of MRI. However, it ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
... 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” ... use disorder, DSM-5 304.3.  Date of first visit: January 2015 to October 2017. Inclusion criteria: Self-reported ...
Premise / BY: Martin C. Wale, BM BS, FRCPath, MBA March 2017
... and privileging project, completed at the end of 2015 and used by most health authorities for the first time ... supports (training, simulation experience, etc.) may be required to maintain currency in the context of service requirements. Where collection of data is an issue, this should be raised in that conversation.  ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2016
... The motion was accepted. Financial highlights for 2015 are provided on page 13 of the Doctors of BC 2015–2016 ... like to bring to the Board this year is temperance. This may help us be more efficient with our work.” . . . “To ... is not a productive use of our time and energy. The issue is that our two work models simply clash. Doctors are ...
Premise / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2016
... withdrawing life-sustaining therapy[ 1,2 ] suggest people may be confused about their right to make life-determining ... well as is possible until their natural death. In August 2015 the General Council of the Canadian Medical Association ... The author is currently guest editing a theme issue on palliative care that she hopes to publish in the  ...