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Letters / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC January/February 2022
... are now being collected on the hundreds of millions of people who are vaccinated, saying it is safe. When one ... clinical trials as there is no self-serving demand for people to publish in order to get tenure. A nice way to think ...
Letters / BY: Roger Purnell, MBChB, FRCSC March 2022
... put the number of MRIs done in BC annually at 1 per 21 people, and 1 per 18.5 nationally. Within the central NHA ...
Letters / BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP April 2022
... dutifully arrived at 7:15 a.m. and lined up with 20 other people to wait for the 8 a.m. opening, only to be told at 8 ...
Letters / BY: Joanne Sinai, MD, MEd, FRCPC April 2022
... charged under this bill and may be dissuaded from treating people with gender dysphoria at all. We are in a unique ... “Endocrine treatment of transgender and gender-diverse people,” and “Gender-affirming surgical care in British ...
Letters / BY: Rob Lehman, MD, CCFP, MClSc, FCFP(LM) June 2022
... write prescriptions, look at sore throats, and refer people to specialists. Who would choose this as a career? ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: BCCDC Overdose Drivers Knowledge Translation Group June 2022
... halt the devastating loss of life. Laws that criminalize people for simple possession of drugs and drug use create ... addressing the unequal impacts of overdose on Indigenous people in BC and Canada. Addressing comorbidities and ... preventing overdose deaths. We have to do better. Engaging people with lived and living experience is necessary to ...
Letters / BY: Ruth Habte, MD September 2022
... my own opinion today—an opinion informed by caring for people who found themselves in the working poor and in need ... are taking. My opinion is also informed by taking care of people in abusive relationships, who may be in ... seeing the impact on reproductive health care. All these people, and more, would benefit from universal free ...
Letters / BY: Gail Knudson, MD, MEd, FRCPC September 2022
... the provision of medical care to trans and gender-diverse people is controversial in some quarters, but it is the ... competent health care to transgender and gender-diverse people. Dr Leising[ 1 ] has written a detailed response[ 7 ] ...
Letters / BY: Vaclav Hyrman, MD, FRCPC December 2022
... have become more prevalent in the industrial age when more people got jobs and developed a “job mentality.” “Job ... be a way around it. Having seen (in psychiatric practice) people suffering from symptoms of burnout regardless of their ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jason Wong, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC December 2022
... screened for syphilis at 28–32 weeks of pregnancy.[ 5 ] People delivering a stillborn infant after 20 weeks’ ...