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Letters / BY: Mark Mallet, MD, CCFP March 2024
... [ BCMJ 2023;65:365-366]: “as many as 225 000 [people] are at risk of poisoning from unregulated drugs, [but] only 4476 people were prescribed safe supply medications in July ... The impression these numbers give is that fewer than 5000 people out of 225 000 are receiving treatment. In both Dr ...
Letters / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH March 2024
... decreased drug poisoning and all-cause mortality among people receiving safer supply.[ 1 ] The number of people at risk of illicit drug poisoning in BC is large, and ... a team of BC researchers identified a provincial cohort of people with substance use disorder comprising 162 099 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Frank X. Scheuermeyer, MD, MHSc April 2024
... 6 days,[ 17 ] in BC, which has a population of 5 million people and more than 90 000 hospital visits for chest pain ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Peter K.Y. Chan, MD, FRCPC, ISAM April 2024
... their property and belongings when they die to certain people/entities under the will; (2) the person understands ... his death and before his last will, Edna discouraged other people from seeing or talking to Jack, especially his ...
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. ...
Letters / BY: Michael Cooper, MD, FRCPC May 2024
... lives. Artificial intelligence will be a game changer for people with ADHD, but having a basic understanding of ...
Letters / BY: Min Jung Kim, BHSc January/February 2024
... may affect the mental and emotional health of Indigenous people. For instance, one study identified that environmental ...
Letters / BY: Jill Norris, MD, CCFP May 2024
... and have come to this conclusion: good health care enables people to live their best lives. Good health care shows up ...
Letters / BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC March 2024
... that we are setting a very poor example for young people by normalizing drug use. Contrary to the editorial, I ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle Ng, MD, CCFP June 2023
... Service Pilot Project and compares this with the number of people in BC who described each language as their only mother ... 3.6% (n = 838). For all of BC, the number of calls per 100 people with limited English proficiency was 15.1. Vancouver had 46.9 calls per 100 people with limited English proficiency, followed by Nanaimo ...