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Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel L. Metzger, MD, FAAP, FRCPC January/February 2010
... The Canadian Diabetes Association’s 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines[ 4 ] state that a random blood glucose ... and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) published its Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines for DKA (updated again in ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD January/February 2010
... yet old but beginning to think about getting older. In my practice a common statement I hear now is that the Golden ...
Letters / BY: Michael Frimer, MD, January/February 2010
... 66. I have been a full member of the BCMA since I entered practice in 1971 and continue to be in full surgical practice and an active member to this day. I have not had a ... 40 years, am still a member, and continue to be in full practice, I am apparently not entitled to the extended ...
Letters / BY: Rupinder Brar, MD, CCFP(AM) January/February 2010
... version, without the author’s full name is a dubious practice. For Dr Day to use his position on the Editorial ...
Premise / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, January/February 2010
... discredited as a treatment for most ailments. The practice of bloodletting began around 3000 years ago with the ... AD) declared blood as the most dominant humor, the practice of venesection gained even greater importance.[ 2 ] ... million words. He had an extraordinary effect on medical practice and his teaching persisted for many centuries. His ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mira Keyes, MD, FRCPC March 2010
... procedure was built into our program as standard practice from the outset. Very rarely, patients may be asked ... rates of 20% to 50%. PSA outcomes It is a common practice to inform patients of treatment outcomes using data ...
Clinical Articles / BY: S. Green, MD, FCFP March 2010
... not obtain the operative experience necessary for future practice if work hours are limited.[ 8 ]  Meanwhile, in ... would affect procedural competency and preparedness for practice. These correlations were performed while controlling ... believed that they would still be adequately prepared for practice even with tighter restrictions show­ed a moderate ...
Letters / BY: Laura Jensen, MD, March 2010
... with directly.  However, there have been times in my practice when I have received a request for records and have ...
Letters / BY: Eugene Leduc, MD March 2010
... of a patient’s medical record, especially in a family practice, is pertinent to a motor vehicle injury and much of ...
MDs To Be / BY: Jenny Ko, March 2010
... On the one hand, competence is decision-specific in practice; a person may possess the mental capacity to make ... of euthanasia not only increases the likelihood that the practice of euthanasia will be abused for economic gain, but ... be the reason for requesting euthanasia.[ 10 ]  Moreover, practice of euthanasia assigns social worth and accordingly ...