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Editorials / BY: Clarissa Wallace, MD, FRCPC November 2004
... speak to many individuals and groups of individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D). I sometimes ask: “What messages were ... these complications are potentially preventable through good control of blood glucose. No wonder the relationship ... In a way it seems pretty straightforward. After all, people with T1D don’t have a metabolic syndrome; they are ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marlene E. Hunter, MD, FCFPC January/February 2003
... the Stikine; Iskut, 80 kilometres south on Highway 37; and Good Hope Lake, 11/2 hours north. For many years, there was ... doctor might work all day in the clinic (a busy day: 18 people), be called out twice during the night, drive to ... eradicate most applicants. It takes a certain personality type to enjoy working in such small centres. Usually it means ...
Clinical Articles / BY: A.J. Macgregor, MD November 2002
... interest, but it is only one of many. In addition, young people believe that in their lives they may have many careers ... for doctors, we have reason to believe that it may not be good for patients. In fairness to residents, we have to ... is not resuscitated. Fragmented, episodic, boutique-type services will hardly meet the needs of a majority of our ...
Premise / BY: William A. Falk, MD, FCFPC, FRCGP December 2002
...   The department of National Health and Welfare had a good idea in 1950 when it conducted the Canadian Sickness ... $59 583 765. This suggests there could be a tendency for people to claim their rights when they need medical care but ... of Health expenditures by principal programs, 1999-2000 Type of expenditure Emergency health Adult medical health ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Murray Allen, MD July/August 2002
... are more prone to whiplash. So too are frail or elderly people with neck arthritis. But while these two groups may ... whiplash symptoms. It’s important to keep your neck in good physical shape, especially if you’ve already suffered ... classified in three types, by degree of the injury.  Type 1:  A mild case, which starts with a delay of symptoms ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Adam Lund, MD, MEd June 2000
... acquired from the patients. Being a physician in this type of practice would be much like working in retail; ... learners in tertiary care settings. I expect that one day good teachers will be adequately recognized and remunerated ... favored by society in the next 100 years. I believe that people will continue to seek the advice of allopathic ...
Blog / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC
High volume is obviously good business, but it is probably bad medicine. Can a new way ... there have been many attempts by many well-intentioned people to correct this inequality, it still exists. To a ... financial incentive for the doctors involved in this type of better care unit to do more cases.  These types of ...
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