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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 ...