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Health News articles from December 1992
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Health News archives from December 1992
Take charge of your health: choose the right family physician. (includes related articles)
December 1, 1992... In the biomedical or disease model of healthcare provision, physicians often focused more on curing illness than preventing it. Until recently, medical thinking in North America concentrated mainly on identifying and dividing diseases into...
How to handle choking: the Heimlich maneuver. (includes related articles)
December 1, 1992... Choking often occurs in the pleasantest surroundings - enjoying Christmas dinner, talking with friends over coffee and cookies or cheering at a ball game while munching pop-corn. Choking, respiratory distress and oxygen lack can quickly ensue...
Patching up smokers. (includes related article) (nicotine patches)
December 1, 1992... Tobacco smoking is known to be dangerous, yet 26 per cent of Canadians still smoke and smoking remains the number one preventable cause of death and disease in Canada. It is responsible for an estimated 30 per cent of heart disease deaths and...
Medical update: modern medical education aims to produce a new kind of physician.
December 1, 1992... The public desire to share in the decision-making about healthcare has brought a shift in medical education. In the past, most medical schools used a biomedical or disease-oriented model that focussed mainly on learning basic sciences and...