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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, ...
BC Stories / BY: Lauren Lypchuk, MD, CCFP January/February 2024
... medical student in Scotland, who was taking elderly people for free rides in the community on a specialized ... days/week, May through October, with 45 volunteers taking people out for free rides. We have now taken 1000+ seniors on ... out from the confines of their residences. We meet many people along the way (I counted more than 200 one ...
Editorials / BY: Terri Aldred, MD April 2024
... disease) form the most common stereotypes about Indigenous people in Canada. When I entered medical school, lecture ... I was well aware of the health disparities Indigenous people faced, and I recognized that bringing awareness was ... factor, and this perpetuates the narrative of Indigenous people being sick, harboring disease, and being at fault for ...
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 ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH Early online
... still. For every road death, there are severalfold more people requiring hospitalization or other health care due to ...
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 ...
Premise / BY: Clara MacDonald, MSc, MD April 2024
... that second victim syndrome often goes unrecognized.[ 15 ] People may also be unwilling to discuss their experiences ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...