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Physician Spotlight / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD July/August 2016
... Racial persecution included deportation of all Japanese people, naturalized or not, to prisoner-of-war camps in the ... At that time universities refused admission to many Asian people. All Japanese individuals were also refused ... the citizens of Lillooet, Bridge River, Bralorne, all the people living along the Pacific Great Eastern (PGE) Railway, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jennifer Smith, BFA January/February 2016
... public health and has reported that more than 1.2 million people are fatally injured every year.[ 1 ] Although Canada ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael W. Luong, MD, FRCPC, March 2016
... vagal tone followed by increased sympathetic tone. As people age, beta-receptor responsiveness decreases, leading ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ahmad Abdullah, MD, April 2016
... North American incidence is 8 to 12.6 cases per 100 000 people.[ 4 ] To our knowledge, data are not currently ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael W. Luong, MD, FRCPC, April 2016
... cardiomyopathy was the most common cause of SCD in young people in the Veneto region of Italy.[ 1 ] This finding, ... lead to ventricular fibrillation and is seen commonly in people of Southeast Asian ancestry. In European studies of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James McKinney, MD, MSc, April 2016
... Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study[ 4 ] of 13 344 healthy people. The subjects included in the study had no personal ... due to cerebrovascular diseases.[ 17 ] Physically inactive people have a significantly elevated stroke risk (RR 1.60).[ ... risk of developing cancer among physically inactive people.[ 4,20 ] In the NHANES I survey, physical inactivity ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Katherine Shoults, MD, May 2016
... oxide abuse specifically, but it is estimated that 40% of people who claim to use inhalants concomitantly abuse nitrous ...
Proust for Physicians November 2016
... to learn from or spend time with other interesting people. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? I’ve ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ivana Jakovljevic, MD October 2016
... by 25% in British Columbia since 2008. Over 97 000 people used the food bank last year in BC, with 31% of users ... specific questions for families with children, seniors, people with disabilities, and First Nations patients living ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: David Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc October 2016
... of negative energy. What is your greatest fear? White people playing bongos. What is the trait you most deplore in ... by choice. What medical advance do you most anticipate? People finally figuring out that personalized prevention has ... almost anything, and this can really be annoying to some people. What do you most value in your colleagues? ...