Irritable bowel syndrome

Practice tip (for BC practitioners) utilizing PathwaysBC beyond specialist lookups — finding patient handouts, requisitions, point-of-care tools

By Drs. Tracy Monk, Nick Graham, Karin Kausky, Michele Thomasse, and Ryan Gallagher on March 22, 2022

We all used PathwaysBC.ca to help us find specialists for our patients, to look up wait times and what information to include in a referral, but we learned that Pathways could help streamline our clinical work in so many more ways.

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Fecal biomarkers in the diagnosis and management of inflammatory bowel disease

By Dr. Greg Rosenfeld on December 10, 2014

Fecal Calprotectin is a simple laboratory investigation performed on a first-morning stool sample which is widely available in BC.

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Managing the complicated somatoform disorder patient

By Dr. Andrew Howard on September 10, 2013

Somatoform and conversion disorders are common psychiatric presentations in general practice. When chronic, like most psychiatric conditions, they commonly cause leave from work, poor quality of life for patients and supports, and heavy burden on medical practices.

Probiotic therapy has changed my approach to treating patients with irritable bowel syndrome

By Dr. Brian Bressler on July 26, 2010

Recently there has been clinical evidence for using probiotics for various medical conditions, including treatment of acute gastroenteritis, prevention of antibiotic-associated diarrhea and IBS.

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