COVID-19

longitudinal care

Virtual care – how will it change the way we practice?

June 22, 2020

“Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water”.


Sister Margaret Dyer baths a newborn baby at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, 1942. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Many of us may have been taught that this phrase referred to the medieval...
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virtual care, COVID-19, longitudinal care
Outdoor recreation

Staying safe outdoors: COVID-19 and Lyme disease

June 18, 2020

As the weather gets warmer here in BC, many of us will be making vacation plans closer to home this year. The limitations set by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic mean camping trips in provincial parks and private sites are a coveted vacation option for summer 2020.  

Spending time outdoors...
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Lyme disease, COVID-19
Virtual Care

Virtual care guides for patients

June 12, 2020

It is important that patients connect with their doctors when they need care. Since the onset of COVID-19, some patients have been delaying visits to their physicians which is concerning especially if they have chronic or complex health conditions. Even while physicians are slowly increasing the...
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virtual care, COVID-19
Clinical exams in the time of COVID-19

Clinical exams in the time of COVID-19

June 4, 2020

“It is not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau

Observational skills are a vital tool in the medical profession. We are taught to pay attention to key words, phrases, and important visual cues as patients relate their histories. Along with this comes...
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COVID-19
Safe dining

Staying safe and protecting others in the ‘new normal’

May 27, 2020

British Columbia is now in Phase 2 in our response to COVID-19. This means that after months of staying at home and going out only for essential services, life is changing with the  lifting of some COVID-19 restrictions.

As we move into this new phase, British Columbians may feel...
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COVID-19