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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 ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, January/February 2011
... specific disease goals (e.g., A1Cs for diabetics, TSH for people on thyroid meds), and ensuring lab results are ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, September 2011
... describes herself and her MOA as “not computer advanced people at all,” but despite this they implemented an EMR in ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, November 2011
... the baby boomer generation, now turning 60, is a cohort of people who are used to being proactive about politics, about ... Centre in a town that contains a large proportion of people over 65. Over the 2 years since implementation he has ... patient data to ensure that he is proactively working with people with diabetes, hypertension, renal failure, and other ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, March 2010
... change. “To effect large-scale change, you need to rally people behind a common goal,” he explains.  When he ... to get their agreement to select a common vendor. Some people already had an EMR, some were close to retirement, and ... practice and couldn’t afford it. The more I spoke to people, the more I got confirmation that it was a good idea. ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... US. In the last few years Extremity Games were formed for people with limb loss. The Invictus and Warrior Games were ... there is now a move to add sports to the daily agenda of people of advanced age. Modifications to various sports for ...
Blog / BY: Javis Lui, BA
... FIT kit. FIT is a routine screening test recommended for people between the ages of 50 and 74 with no symptoms of ... the cause of these symptoms. FIT is not appropriate for people with these symptoms. Labs temporarily suspended the ... in efforts to minimize COVID-19 transmission in healthy people. —Javis Lui Leader, Screening Promotions, BC Cancer ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... as well as cardiopulmonary resuscitation has enabled people who had passed the traditional “there is no pulse, ... of his near-death experience is consistent with other people’s reports of the existence of a wonderful, warm, ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... and touch does not vanish. As the article puts it, “people may in fact suffer from the absence of loving and ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... because of the positive subjective experiences that people in general and caregivers specifically may have toward ...