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Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
On 17 October 2018, Canada joined nine American states and Uruguay ... you’re looking at this scientifically, you might have an issue with the correlation of use to health risks, because ... urine drug screen, more than quadrupled between 2005 and 2014 (from 146 to 639).[ 25 ] That trend will continue ...
Editorials / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC September 2015
Dr Margaret Colbourne Following the 2014 release of “Lost in the Shadows” from the ... of these children. This is the first of a two-part theme issue on child maltreatment. The first article is a brief ... In the second part of the theme issue, coming in the October  BCMJ , we present the articles “Abusive head ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Cavers, MD October 2014
... in CMA's policy on euthanasia and assisted suicide. In the 2014 policy on this topic, medical aid in dying refers to a ... ill patients access to medical aid in dying, and in October, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal of a ... includes death. Canadian physicians are divided on this issue. Almost 50% of British Columbia's physicians are in ...