As a med student, a surg resident told me about her engagement in secret - “because I don’t want the program to think I might want babies”.

10y later, weathering my first, complicated, post-infertility pregnancy - I can’t say how much we need research like this.

Heard from a medical student today about a program caring for older adults at home using 24 hour video monitoring and robots.

The healthcare system will fund literally anything before paying PSWs more.

Join Sarah Fraser family physician and Assoc Scientific Editor .Canadian Family Physician for a discussion of the intersection of 'Ageism and misogyny in long-term care' with Elizabeth Niedra and Ameera Musah for a recent Third Rail edition of the podcast.
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This article is all about personal risk - which, in a game of transmission, is only half the story:

nytimes.com/article/mask-m…

With airline mask mandates dropped, the “over COVID” world is only excluding the most vulnerable.

Wear a mask, save a life (and I don’t mean yours).

Sometimes I’m dumbfounded by our ability to collectively ignore the climate crisis

And then I note we’re at 100k+ cases/day, and publicly declaring the pandemic “over”

Health workers know better. How to use these lessons for climate action?

With Olena’s consent, we are fundraising to help support her beautiful family of 7.

Looking for concrete & local ways to help those affected by the war in Ukraine? Consider donating generously.

gofund.me/8be16ad4

my new friend Olena and I spoke with Ismaila Alfa yesterday, about her experience fleeing to Canada from Ukraine.

She is a powerful mother, amazing system navigator and speaks so well about the gaps in our #refugee system.

Listen here:

cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

Climate health is public health.

120k COVID daily cases in Ont, and we’re walking blind into another disastrous health emergency.

Justin Trudeau what’s the plan?

#MedTwitter , where is your outrage and advocacy?

How can we do better, when it feels like we’ve failed already?

As a descendant of refugees who mourned a lost homeland for 70 years:

ALL asylum seekers dream of home.
None have agency - their status is defined by well-founded fear.

This is tragedy upon tragedy, to treat Ukrainians and other refugees so differently. cp24.com/news/non-citiz…

As an #EasternEuropean personally invested in this, let me say:
- OK YES, super neat, that was easy
- now do it for all the other global refugees

Continually grieving the invasion of #Ukraine .

Grieving for newly-displaced refugees

Grieving for the reality of wartime racism

Grieving for Russian people

Grieving for the victims of imperialism forgotten/erased

Gonna keep saying it.
#StandWithUkraine️

The most generous act of solidarity at Toronto's #StandWithUkraine march.

To stand with Ukraine is to stand with with all resistance to imperial tyranny.

#EasternEuropeans have known xenophobia & rejection as refugees - when 'Slavs' were seen as less worthy of Western human empathy.

This racism in crisis is shameful, horrific & unfaithful to our history.

I #StandWithUkraine , and am enraged to tears.

bbc.com/news/world-afr…

Today I took my elder's handmade flag out of its keepsake box, to wear in protest for the first time in a generation.

This is a tradition of anti-imperial resistance - a family heirloom for many Eastern Europeans, and also a heartbreaking new reality.
#StandWithUkraine

Girl wrote the book on oppressive occupation, so
#StandWithUkraine Margaret E Atwood

#Zelenskyy , the snake island soldiers, the octagenerian who conscripted for war.

These are enormous heroes, indeed. But let's be careful not to romanticize them as a thing of viral glory.

#Ukrainians don't want to be war heroes. They want live in peace and modernity.