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Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2018
... example in raising my own children and am proud of the people they have become (not sure this has much to do with ...
MDs To Be / BY: Ryan Danroth, BSc March 2018
... . . . [as] the evidence strongly suggests that countless people have become infected with HIV as a result of sharing ...
Letters / BY: Melissa Carr, DrTCM, BSc January/February 2018
... 8 August 2017).” That makes it sound like 25% of people who take Chinese herbs end up with liver damage. ... numbers) is correct, we still have no idea how many people that is. The statistic is meaningless. Next, the ... aware of the potential dangers of these products.” Some people think that the world of natural health products is ...
MDs To Be / BY: Justin Burton, MSc, UBC Medicine, Class of 2018 January/February 2018
... services to approximately 15 000 predominantly Indigenous people spread throughout roughly 100 villages. The Missionary ... affected by cataracts or pterygium, and showed that the people in the Napo region had to contend with more than ... the comparisons are not limited to rural populations; the people in the Napo region struggle with the same issues of ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD January/February 2018
... a network as “a group or system of interconnected people or things.” A community is defined as “a group of people living in the same place or having a particular ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD June 2018
... information is being given without genetic counseling to people who might not be ready to hear it or understand what ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD June 2018
... judge and judge. And I’m often left thinking that these people have done amazing work, even the ones we don’t end ... competition with edginess. And who the heck are these people to judge? We have become a world where unfiltered ... we speak our mind, but it would sure be a nicer world if people took it to heart.  —CV Editorials Who am I to judge? ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP June 2018
... overflowing on my desk. I went to medical school to help people, not push paper. Forms for consults. Forms for ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD April 2018
... I have called it home since preschool, and love the people and beauty of our province. I can’t imagine residing ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB July/August 2018
... administration of health care. Unfortunately though, the people charged with deciding how health care dollars are spent are not the people who actually provide the health care. Those of us on ...