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Specialist Services Committee / BY: Eileen M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP April 2021
... Health Authority. I wanted to study this patient-based issue through a quality-improvement lens, with value-based ... residents’ food complaints by 20%. Beginning in March 2018, I started measuring how much food was being wasted at ... than the dishware, cutlery, or environment that others may deem important. With social isolation more extreme due to ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) May 2021
... Sales approached US$1 billion in the United States in 2018, and the market is projected to reach US$6.2 billion by ... (including children and pregnant women), as consumers may often be unaware that there is alcohol in kombucha.[ 5 ] ... BC Centre for Disease Control’s recent study into this issue[ 5 ] recommends that: Labeling must clearly indicate ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Thomas S. Watson, MD, DPhil March 2021
... were searched between 5 December 2017 and 16 January 2018, and the search was updated with all new studies to 25 ... 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 ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC November 2020
... did not want to acknowledge that fertility is a serious issue for female physicians. Turns out that our benefits ... privilege of being guest editor to discuss fertility. In May and June 2018, the journal published articles on infertility, ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Helena Swinkels, MD, MHSc, FCFP, FRCPC March 2019
... water everywhere but not a drop to drink!” in the May 2018 issue of the BCMJ .[ 1 ] We would like to thank Dr Maheswaran ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tom Brocklehurst September 2019
Canada’s legalization of recreational cannabis in October 2018 reignited the issue of workplace impairment for many employers and workers ... not assign impaired workers to activities where impairment may create an undue risk and must not permit workers to ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
On 17 October 2018, Canada joined nine American states and Uruguay by ... 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” ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD July/August 2019
... from locations near urbanized areas around Puget Sound. In 2018 investigators reanalyzed mussel tissues collected in ... of opioids, the Washington study illustrates the larger issue of CECs in the environment and their potential adverse ... impacts. CECs of greatest concern include those which may not pose an immediate effect through acute exposure, as ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD October 2018
... pairing to heighten your meal experience?” On 17 October 2018 marijuana will become legal and will join alcohol as a ... parallels to alcohol consumption in our province. Adults may possess up to 30 grams of cannabis in a public place. If ... will have on medicinal marijuana use. I mused about this issue in my June 2017 BCMJ editorial. Unless the price of the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Helen Thi, BA March 2018
... while considering the effects that medical conditions may have on the functions necessary for driving. Family ... of a Condition Affecting Fitness and Ability to Drive. The issue of assessing a patient’s ability to drive may be ... Introduction of the Enhanced Road Assessment As of 1 March 2018, RoadSafetyBC will be using a new Enhanced Road ...