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President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC March 2024
... it simply makes us more alone. Yet, in the real world, people cheer when they hear someone has gotten into medical ... his sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, who had ALS. People would come to commiserate with Schwartz yet would ... Yet I find inspiration at work daily. I find it in the people who come together to look after a patient with ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD March 2024
... This month, we address you as workers yourselves: people who face unique physical and psychological risks at ...
Proust for Physicians March 2024
... science fiction, fantasy, and biographies of interesting people. What is your favorite place? There is no place like ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC May 2024
... resources. Canada has 2.6 hospital beds for every 1000 people, which is behind almost every Organisation for ... BC has even less—a mere 1.95 hospital beds per 1000 people. Canada also has significantly fewer physicians ... to reaching the OECD average of 4.3 hospital beds per 1000 people by 2035, doubling our current operating room capacity, ...
Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... with in your practice. The feeling I got from a lot of people was that they were at their wits’ end, there was no ... your approach to spreading that optimism to get more people helping you on that journey? I can start at the micro ... ever changed anything in the world is a group of committed people committing to make a difference along a common path. ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC Early online
... of former Lego CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp: “Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn’t grow in ...
Obituaries / BY: Gillian Hodge, MD January/February 2024
... Bella Bella. In those days, evacuation of sick and injured people from remote communities was difficult. Roger had to ... assistance. He gained the trust and friendship of many people along the Central Coast—friendships that endured for ... manner made him many friends among the local Indigenous people. In the mid-1980s, Roger moved to Vancouver, where he ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Curtis May, MD, MPH, CCFP Early online
... not work alone during hot conditions. Working with other people can allow for mutual monitoring for signs of heat ...
Obituaries / BY: Al Kallas, MD March 2024
... one of the smallest boats in the harbor, with the most people in the cockpit. There were many cruises, including to ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2023
... settler on the territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking people in Victoria, where I’ve spent the last year, and ... if not a lifetime.” There are lots of predictors of why people do rural medicine; for me, it was a combination of ... generalism but also a ton to do with being connected to people, which I’ve always really enjoyed. Is there a story ...