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Council on Health Promotion / BY: A. Maria Chung, MDCM January/February 2014
... reaching a record high in the developed world. Many more people are now surviving illnesses that were previously ... patients with multiple complex comorbidities. Elderly people in hospital are at high risk not only for functional ...
MDs To Be / BY: Greg Costello, January/February 2014
... of British Columbia’s Medical Undergraduate Program, people are generally focused on three areas of interest: the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP March 2014
... And yet above all else, it is physicians who see the people who desperately need to be physically active for their ...
MDs To Be / BY: Rebecca Gordon, BSc, March 2014
... HIV/AIDS in the community by educating and engaging young people. •    To decrease risky sexual behavior in the ...
MDs To Be / BY: Patricia Caddy, MD May 2014
... lecture halls, on the hands of strangers and the faces of people we love most dearly. There will be no unseeing. To ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP July/August 2014
... illness is one of the morbidities.[ 2 ] We know that people with multimorbidity have reduced quality of life, ... person who is lost among the cognitive impairment. When people with dementia do not have family members to represent ... if the information is not good—can all be healing. People will often forget what you told them but will always ...
MDs To Be / BY: Sean McGee, BSc (Hons), July/August 2014
... ignoring the qualities that make them unique and engaging people.”[ 18 ] Standing in opposition to burnout is ... others,”[ 6 ] is clearly desirable in medical care. People will work harder at some prosocial tasks that they are ... the perception of a mixed market. The danger is that when people focus on monetary rewards this can interfere with the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James G. Huang, MD, PGDipSurgAnat, FRACS, September 2014
... in  Table 2 . PSA increases with age and is higher in people of certain races, such as African Americans. ...
MDs To Be / BY: Ahmad Al-Sarraf, MD, FRCPC, September 2014
... Services Plan only covers routine eye examinations for people who are under 18 or over 65 years old.[ 5 ] ... covered by MSP in most circumstances. The average age of people living in the DTES is roughly 45 years old, 10% of the ... over 65 years old.[ 6 ] This suggests that the majority of people in the DTES are not covered for routine eye exams for ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC October 2014
... such as children, youth, pregnant women, nursing mothers, people with heart conditions, and the elderly.[ 9 ] Despite ... will be a gateway to conventional cigarette use in young people by exposing them to nicotine[ 11-12 ] and by ...