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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP July/August 2018
... passionately about issues while respecting each other as people worthy of belonging. Because no matter our individual ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC July/August 2018
... in the Journal of Alzheimer Disease . They recommend that people get tested for peptide amyloid beta protein 42 (Abeta ... disease would typically occur. If it’s elevated, these people should take daily ibuprofen to ward off the disease, ... of heart attack, stroke, and death. In addition, elderly people may have increased cardiovascular risk and disease. In ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP September 2018
... antivaccine movement counters with tales of profits-over-people, conspiracies to control individual freedoms, and ... misses the point: to achieve the goals of healthier people and societies, stories are exactly what we need.  ... and stories in our style to build bridges and appeal to people’s hearts as well as their heads.  And if using our ...
Letters / BY: Brian Brodie, MD September 2018
... the “same or better.” And so, our current products and people are not changing, they’re only going to be expanded ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP October 2018
... do? 1.    Recognize that the health care system and the people it cares for are complex. Complex systems evolve over ... person but not another, or it may cause side effects. How people react to the same infection, treatment, or trauma is ... While we argue about the highest standard of privacy, people willingly give up some of this right daily to interact ...
Letters / BY: Zafar Essak, MD October 2018
... courage as a fundamental value at the company. We want people to speak the truth, and we say, ‘To disagree ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD November 2018
... Cadesky asked us to use science and stories to appeal to people.[ 3 ] Here is some science: kinetic energy equals one ... road crashes.” In the years 2008 through 2017, 3268 people died in motor vehicle incidents in British Columbia. Among the 298 people killed in motor vehicle incidents in BC in 2017, 163 ...