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President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC March 2024
... it simply makes us more alone. Yet, in the real world, people cheer when they hear someone has gotten into medical ... his sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, who had ALS. People would come to commiserate with Schwartz yet would ... Yet I find inspiration at work daily. I find it in the people who come together to look after a patient with ...
Letters / BY: Jill Norris, MD, CCFP May 2024
... and have come to this conclusion: good health care enables people to live their best lives. Good health care shows up ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... and education about Canada’s treatment of Indigenous people. It has been humbling to discover the multitude of ... deficit-based language in articles that discuss Indigenous people is one thing the Editorial Board has been working on. ... may be well intentioned; however, historically, Indigenous people have been made into research subjects and described in ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC April 2024
... hands. Stating the obvious, I also assumed that other people’s children were in excellent hands with me. So, when ...
Letters / BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC March 2024
... that we are setting a very poor example for young people by normalizing drug use. Contrary to the editorial, I ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC May 2024
... resources. Canada has 2.6 hospital beds for every 1000 people, which is behind almost every Organisation for ... BC has even less—a mere 1.95 hospital beds per 1000 people. Canada also has significantly fewer physicians ... to reaching the OECD average of 4.3 hospital beds per 1000 people by 2035, doubling our current operating room capacity, ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD January/February 2024
... physicians to do the work at hand. An estimated 1 million people in BC do not have a family physician. An article in ...
Editorials / BY: Terri Aldred, MD April 2024
... disease) form the most common stereotypes about Indigenous people in Canada. When I entered medical school, lecture ... I was well aware of the health disparities Indigenous people faced, and I recognized that bringing awareness was ... factor, and this perpetuates the narrative of Indigenous people being sick, harboring disease, and being at fault for ...
Letters / BY: Mark Mallet, MD, CCFP March 2024
... [ BCMJ 2023;65:365-366]: “as many as 225 000 [people] are at risk of poisoning from unregulated drugs, [but] only 4476 people were prescribed safe supply medications in July ... The impression these numbers give is that fewer than 5000 people out of 225 000 are receiving treatment. In both Dr ...
Premise / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) January/February 2024
... there is a crisis in primary care. Almost one-third of people who want a family doctor can’t find one, and even people who have a family physician generally find them quite ... and emotionally. We believe greater availability to the people who count on us for care is the critical, needed ...