Turned down because she is over 45 and not married? Come on, this is nothing but discrimination to women. Disgraceful.
Ottawa family doctor denied permanent residency over marital status, age ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-family-… #cdnpoli #women

💯💯💯 'There is no 'bothsidesing' science.
Whether discussing private pay, or   #forprofit investor-owned delivery, the evidence tells a clear story: we can’t afford privatized #healthcare .'
🎯🙏Danyaal Raza Hasan Sheikh  Canadian Doctors for Medicare
thestar.com/opinion/contri…

Here we introduce 7 new articles examining Canada’s #covid19 response & call for a national covid inquiry
'Canadians delivered on the pandemic response while its governments faltered' ✍️
bmj.com/content/382/bm…

Dr. Jocelyn Clark (Jocalyn Clark) from The Lancet thanks the many people who made the #LancetCanada Special Edition possible, and reminds us that “Canada has a long history of (health) accomplishments that we should be proud of, but we can’t rest on our laurels.”

So, so, so, true!

Sports Supplements Are A Waste Of Time link.medium.com/ZJldobODABb by Health Nerd cc WADA Stuart Phillips (he/him) Trent Stellingwerff, PhD / CSEP-CEP / FACSM / ChPC

Reality:
- Little evidence they work
- Poorly regulated
- Often (very) contaminated or adulterated
- Potential harms

#ExpensivePee

Massive hail flow at street in Seregno, Italy 🇮🇹 (21.07.2023)

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And your medication is reliant on what... Climate stability.

Every thing we consume depends on stability.
Logistics, food, medical supplies, infrastructure, housing... All of it!

Supplies cease and society crumbles.

#ClimateBreakdown
#ClimateCrisis

Disabled/chronically ill patients want more doctors who understand us through their own experiences as being disabled and chronically ill doctors. Dr. Bullock points out one major barrier to that happening. (And some of responses just prove how dug in the system is…)

BBC News (UK) ITV News Channel 4 News Sky News Good Morning Britain BBC Breakfast LBC News The Guardian The Times and The Sunday Times The Telegraph The Mirror Mail+ The Sun Daily Express Metro i newspaper Kay Burley Susanna Reid Jon Snow Stacey Poole 💙 Peston Karam Bales Peter Stefanovic Carol Vorderman Shaun Lintern Stephanie Nolen Theresa Boyle Chad Terhune David Lim Rachel Schraer Laura Foster (She/Her) Andrew Gregory Hugh Pym Paul Cullen Natasha Loder 🐋 Eve Simmons laura donnelly Kat Lay Aisha Dow hanna geissler Leah Rosenbaum Jinan Harb Samuel Lovett Sarah Neville Carmel Wroth Ella Walker Martin Bagot Chloe Hayward Kate Pickles …and the British Heart Foundation British Heart Foundation confirming that 100,000 excess heart deaths in the UK were caused by the lingering effects of covid infections.

CNN EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk's Twitter 'ghosted' laid off employees in its only Africa office without severance or benefits.

The Ghana-based team have not been paid a cent, unlike former staff in North America & Europe edition.cnn.com/2023/07/17/tec…

“Even though heart disease is the leading killer of U.S. women, in cardiology, we still think about men more than women,” says Dr. Martha Gulati ♥️🫀❤️‍🩹🇨🇦. Listen to #TheDosePodcast as she and Joel Bervell get to the “heart” of the issue.
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Canadians urged to get COVID-19 booster this fall globalnews.ca/video/9829546/…

The Sunday Read: ‘The Moral Crisis of America’s Doctors’ nytimes.com/2023/07/16/pod…

Wow. #Tornado #Ottawa

Someone just shared a heartbreaking post by a walk in clinic in Ontario,

“Please be kind to our office staff; it is not their fault that our clinic is full for the day, or that healthcare is frankly broken.'

Across the country, ER's are closing for lack of staff, millions don't…

Patients at a TGH clinic were told they need to pay for a VHI test normally covered under OHIP. This is a mistake on our part and we are addressing this directly with our patients including full reimbursement of any payments already made. We are sincerely sorry for the confusion.

Fergus teacher developing disability style guide for journalists - Guelph News guelphtoday.com/local-news/fer…

We’re pleased to welcome Christine Elliott (Christine Elliott) to our Board of Trustees!

Christine was the Minister of Health + Deputy Premier of #Ontario until 2022 and has significant knowledge of, and experience with the health system. She also co-founded the Abilities Centre

Challenge to Ontario’s #healthcare system — we need to co-design with people with lived experience a disability / medical complexity approach that works for adults. Who wants to work together to make this a reality? 🙋‍♀️

How I began to suspect that getting cardiac studies accepted for publication in medical journals is the main goal – not changing an unacceptable status quo for patients.
And a great example of implementation science working in the community. myheartsisters.org/2023/04/16/imp… Carolyn Thomas ☮️