Category: Medical Dispatches

Jun 25 2015

Medical Dispatches

A tool to assist Point-of-Care Evidence-Based Diagnosis

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Michael Garfinkle is a Nephrology Fellow at the University of Calgary   The practice of evidence based diagnosis is what we are taught we should all do, but, in practice,...

May 26 2015

Medical Dispatches

EMR security problems – don’t get stung

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Sudhir D’Souza is a semi-retired paediatrician practising in Ontario   “About 80 per cent of health data is captured in physicians’ offices. Electronic records connected to hospitals and provincial health...

May 05 2015

Medical Dispatches

The birth lottery

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Simon Bryant is a Canadian Physician currently volunteering with MSF in the Mediterranean Editor’s note: This piece combines two of Simon’s blogs published on Médecins Sans Frontières’ staff blog ‘Moving...

Apr 16 2015

Medical Dispatches

Military training to provide health care at the Ebola Virus Disease Treatment Centre: a Canadian perspective

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Operation Sirona, Tranche 2 Canadian Forces medical personnel from 2 Field Ambulance and 1 Canadian Field Hospital, Garrison Petawawa. Captain (Navy) Dr. Raymond Kao is the Chief of Medicine for...

Mar 02 2015

Medical Dispatches, Primary Care

Refugee primary care: lessons in advocacy, cultural competence and self-reflection

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Boluwaji Ogunyemi is a Dermatology Resident Physician in Vancouver, BC, and a freelance writer for the Huffington Post, Ubyssey Newspaper, and the Online Journal for Community and Person-centered Dermatology As...

Jan 07 2015

Medical Dispatches

Teaching a technique to improve health in Haiti

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Neil Pollock is a Clinical Instructor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, and an Associate Professor at Laval University, Montréal, Québec     Haiti has faced immense...

Aug 18 2014

Medical Dispatches

“No, don’t touch the dead body!”

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Azaria Marthyman is a primary care physician in Victoria, BC, who has recently returned from Liberia “No, don’t touch the dead body!” “Save yourself so you can save others!” “Midwives,...

Jul 15 2014

Medical Dispatches

Proposed changes to Community Health Centres will hurt Primary Care in B.C

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Dr. Ryan Herriot, Dr. Steven Persaud, Dr. Rannie Tao, and Dr. Stephanie Stacey are Resident Physicians in Family Medicine at St. Paul’s Hospital, UBC Faculty of Medicine   As family...

Jun 02 2014

Medical Dispatches

Fukushima three years on

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Ryuki Kassai is a founding professor and chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan One day in November 2013, a 14-year-old girl...