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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 ...
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 ...
Editorials / BY: Rona E. Cheifetz, MD, MEd, FRCSC, FACS January/February 2018
... An estimated 25 700 new cases were identified in Canada in 2016, and 3500 of these were in British Columbia.[ 1 ] Breast ... the results of these tests. This first in a two-part theme issue dedicated to breast cancer focuses on issues in ... primary care providers and surgeons in different centres may face in organizing investigations. In the third article , ...
Editorials / BY: Rona E. Cheifetz, MD, MEd, FRCSC, FACS March 2018
Dr Rona Cheifetz Dr Elaine McKevitt BC statistics from 2016 show an age-adjusted net survival rate for breast cancer ... this way. With more coordinated and targeted therapy, it may also be possible to reduce treatment sequelae. Already ... of these concerns and complementing Part 1 of this theme issue, which dealt with diagnosis, Part 2 focuses on initial ...
Premise / BY: Martin C. Wale, BM BS, FRCPath, MBA March 2017
... by most health authorities for the first time during the 2016 privileging cycle. BC MQI also acts as holder of the BC ... 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.  ...
Premise / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2016
In 2016 physician-assisted death will become legal in Canada. ... withdrawing life-sustaining therapy[ 1,2 ] suggest people may be confused about their right to make life-determining ... The author is currently guest editing a theme issue on palliative care that she hopes to publish in the  ...