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More #ChildrenRuinEverything is headed your way! 🎉

Production kicked off today on awesome new episodes with our favourite TV family! Stay tuned! 💛

Thread on the structural relationship of US doctors to labor & politics:

US physicians often feel exploited during training (because we are). But instead of our poor working conditions and education-related debt generating a sense of solidarity and shared politics with other 1/

The “great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is… the white moderate who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says ‘I agree with you

Our EDT delivery with Dr. Keith Wycliff-Jones and Dr. Michelle Morros is underway! If you were unable to join us for this session, it will be delivered live again at 12:00pm PDT. You can register online here: came-acem.ca/professional-d… #MedEd

It turns out that building universities on the neoliberal model of dependence upon billionaire donors, who in turn use universities as tools for dismantling public systems and the regulatory and tax codes that support them, has some downsides.

One key reason many men don’t recognise our roles in preventing and reducing rape is that we don't realise that most rapes are by men known to the victim, in a familiar location, without serious physical injury, and that rapes are common. Many men have a mistaken idea of rape
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During today's Provincial Day of Action, Alberta's medical students are at the Legislative Assembly to advocate for improved access to primary care.🧵on the state of #familymedicine in #Alberta , and on the factors pushing Alberta's medical students away from family medicine.

Danielle Smith University of Alberta University of Alberta_FoMD University of Alberta_DoM UAlberta Medical Students’ Association (MSA) UA Family Medicine U Calgary U CalgaryFamMed Canadian Medical Students Rural Health Professions Action Plan (RhPAP) ACFP Roshan Abraham Dr. Shazma Mithani Timothy Caulfield SRPC 🇨🇦 Canadian Medical Association Dr. Samina Ali Sam Alatorre-Hinojosa Calgary Medical Students Association Monty (he/him) The PDoA on Access to Primary Care in Alberta is off to a great start! Delegates from @ualberta_fomd and @ucalgarymed have been busy in meetings all morning, with many more to come this afternoon. We are looking forward to meeting with Adriana LaGrange and the United Conservative Caucus!

The selection process for medical school (a process that preoccupies students for years) is dysfunctional.
However #MedEd is also highly dysfunctional & and has contributed to the current crisis in #healthcare . Hear me out: 1/11

NEWS

Bronx medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is now tuition-free thanks to a $1 billion gift from Dr. Ruth Gottesman, a former professor.

Gottesman, whose late husband was an early investor with Warren Buffett, has made it a condition of the gift that…

keeping in touch with med school friends is cool but sometimes they will be like 'remember when u had a breakdown at 2am over the difference between pseudohypoparathyroidism and pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism and we had to get u a milkshake'

Why does Ontario lack Family Doctors?

-No pension
-No sick leave
-No vacation pay
-No health benefits
-No dental plan
-No maternity leave

-Clinic expenses $100,000 per year
…in Toronto it’s $180,000 per year

Another one bites the dust. ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new…

Bell cuts 4800 jobs to create more participants for next Bell Let's Talk Day

thebeaverton.com/2024/02/bell-c…

My immigrant dad took me aside yesterday to tell me he’s been restless because he doesn’t want me to lose work by posting things that are “inflammatory.”
He said I should just focus on mental health, not politics.

And here's how I responded >>

Doreen, I've made this a repost as it is complicated. Needs more length than I can do in a reply (or I'm long winded, what ever you prefer).

There are 2 situations here I believe so lets take them in order and I'm happy to share my thoughts. /1

This deserves a longer answer. I'm creating a short thread.

Under the NDP and with Carl Amrhein as deputy we created a workforce planning committee.

Included, medical schools, AHS, CPSA, AH and had strong technical subcommittee (for data) and a strategy committee. /1

#stewardmeme

What I would do to go back in time and explain this to my younger self. This right here is so powerful yet hard to grasp if you haven’t experienced it yourself. And it’s not just your relationship with work but with people in general that is affected

As a child of immigrants, you may feel like you have to constantly account for your free or found time.

You may have watched your elders maximize their time in order to survive. Or you may have learned there's a 'right' way to use your time -- & a 'right' order of doing things.