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Letters / BY: Robert H. Brown, MD, CCFP January/February 2020
... long way behind those in Ontario. So, good luck to all the people who want to improve primary care. Babylon Health, pot ...
Letters / BY: Shelley Ross, MD January/February 2020
... and provincial levels. I believe we have the right people at the right tables to work through the challenging ...
Letters / BY: Helen Hays, MD, CCFP, FCFP January/February 2020
... are not useful for injured workers unless they help people get back to work. This article [ BCMJ 2019;61:176,179 ...
Letters / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC March 2020
... dozens of patents to his name, but with enough publicity people like him can easily become gurus, which is not good. I ...
Letters / BY: Jonathan M. Winner, MD March 2020
... in walk-in clinics, where they could see large numbers of people with relatively minor complaints and would not have to ... boom, and in a few years, there will be thousands more people living here. Who is going to look after all of us? ...
Letters / BY: Marisa Ponzo, MD-PhD, FRCPC April 2020
... (SCARs) in specific at-risk populations, primarily people of East Asian descent. SCARs include Stevens-Johnson ...
Letters, COVID-19 / BY: Nilanga Aki Bandara, BSc June 2020
... we need to bring sensible policies to protect our young people from devastating effects of COVID-19. The American ... clinical guidance to highlight the well-known risk. People who smoke or use e-cigarettes have a significantly ... respiratory infections like the coronavirus, and people with decreased lung function caused by smoking or ...
Letters / BY: Robert H. Brown, MD, CCFP June 2020
... largely because family physicians are neither business people nor endowed with the upfront financial resources to ... arises whether they will have a net benefit to the people of the province. After all, it is the people of BC who pay for them through taxation and fees paid ...
Letters / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP November 2020
... that this article will have unintended consequences for people who should be receiving opioid-based therapy.  ... in the article do not apply to a significant number of people. The figure in the article is titled only “acute and ... family doctor. Pain is prevalent in 30% to 50% of people who receive cancer-directed treatments and over 70% of ...