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Clinical Articles / BY: Peter K.Y. Chan, MD, FRCPC, ISAM April 2024
... an enhanced section 9 representation agreement, an adult may authorize a representative to decide on a wider scope of ... information and set out what type of capacity is at issue and what the legal test is for that type of capacity.[ ... an adult’s ability to manage their financial affairs. 2016. ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Ka Wai Cheung, MD, MPH, FRCPC March 2023
... Western Canada and is the second largest in Canada. In 2016, the Vancouver Physician Staff Association was formed to ... in the Vancouver Physician Staff Association raised the issue of burnout. The Vancouver Coastal Health senior ... unprecedented challenges to the health care profession and may affect different specialties in different ways and to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robin Friedlander, MD, FRCPC October 2023
... as informed by recent developments in the field. While we may touch on areas of evolving knowledge, it is beyond the ... In a multisite study conducted in the US between 2000 and 2016, 27% of 8-year-old children with autism were assessed to ... necessary in some cases. A companion article in this issue reviews the psychopharmacological treatment of ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH December 2023
... a public health emergency in relation to drug poisoning in 2016, making it the only issue other than the COVID-19 pandemic that has prompted the ... fit the needs of all who are at risk, such as those who may encounter barriers to prescribed models. Nonmedical ...
Clinical Articles / BY: barbara findlay, MA, LLB, QC March 2022
... Note that there is no specific age cutoff in BC: a minor may be competent to decide about a particular medical ... health care provider.[ 20 ] Though no case has decided the issue directly, it is likely that a minor would have to ... treatments (for example, a much more complex physical issue or treatment plan); that assessment is up to the care ...
Editorials / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD April 2021
... to women who enter medicine in the future that they may be paid less despite doing the same work as men, solely because of their gender? The complexity of this issue and the solutions to it cannot be thoroughly discussed ... than ever before. The entering class of UBC Medicine in 2016 was 53.8% women.[ 2 ] Despite this, implicit ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP November 2021
... and successful management of chronic pain is essential and may prevent loss of independence. Opioids are also indicated ... opioid can resolve this. Opioids are not all the same In a 2016 study,[ 17 ] 520 people with cancer pain that was being ... ] but nonpharmacological therapies are also helpful. One issue to be mindful of is obstructive sleep apnea because ...
Billing Tips / BY: Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP September 2021
This article originally appeared in the June 2016 issue of the BCMJ . As this subject continues to pose a ... July/August issue of the BCMJ we described how physicians may be affected by the Laboratory Services Act. The Act ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Thomas S. Watson, MD, DPhil March 2021
... meta-analysis (by Yousefifard and colleagues[ 8 ] in 2016), which found the sensitivity of ultrasound for rib ... and identified what they viewed as the most significant issue with existing studies supporting ultrasound: the ... physicians at initial presentation of minor blunt trauma may in fact speed up rib fracture diagnosis by helping triage ...
Billing Tips / BY: Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP July/August 2021
This article originally appeared in the May 2016 issue of the BCMJ . As this subject continues to pose a ...