Just out: Part 3 in the #SavingEmergencyMedicine series: #Compassion

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Paul Atkinson Kavish Chandra Anton Helman #KrishnaPulchan CAEP

PeterRatcliffe Serious question: if you don't have range anxiety, why is having the dealer in Belleville a deal-breaker?

Working on this piece, I found a remarkable stat: over two Danielle Smith budgets, she hiked Alberta provincial spending by 20%. That’s more than NDP over their 4 budgets.
So much easier to “live within your means” when oil$$ make means so much greater: cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

This fall’s #COVID19 shot is already being “strongly” recommended to those most at risk from the virus as experts anticipate a surge of infections later this year, by kevin jiang thestar.com/news/canada/he… via @torontostar #vaccination

Blame The Carbon Tax

Happy to hear that Dr. Shazma Mithani of Edmonton has been awarded the Dr. Alan Drummond Advocacy Award by Canada's emergency physicians CAEP

And then there was one. Alberta down to its last coal-fired power plant. pembina.org/media-release/…

The National Forum on Emergency Care should be interesting. It's certainly timely. EM:Power is quite an interesting report, with some great recommendations. caep.ca/wp-content/upl… via CAEP

Change is coming. We are leading the way.

'No room at the inn' - 22 years ago by Dr. Drummond. The state of the nation has only worsened. Patients remain in ER, they die in ER - I attest to this reality. CAEP alan drummond

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Access block is threatening the health of Canadians across the country. It crosses geographical & service borders. Reducing access block can start in the ED through care that reduces fxnl decline & delirium. Good care for older ppl is JUST good care. CAEP GeriEM Canada

Happy National Doctors Day! We had another amazing morning of networking, collaboration and forward movement. This is just the beginning.

Some of the best thinkers in emergency medicine, meeting with government officials from across the country at the first National Forum on the Future of Emergency Care. There is hope for better care for Canadians.

“The fundamental problem for fixable health care is administration….we have a top down militaristic admin structure “ with no accountability. Andre Picard. Award winning best selling author.

Just like patients in our waiting rooms are running out of time, so is our health care system. We need healthcare reform - STAT. The EMPOWER document can be a cornerstone for change in EDs. CAEP André Picard

If you are a healthcare provider, incl Emerg, and you haven’t read André Picard Neglected No More. Read it. Now. It crosses healthcare borders and provides a basis & understanding for healthcare reform & opportunity which is directly impactful to the ED. CAEP

The future in emergency medicine advocacy. Dr James Worrall

All of Calgary's right wing astroturf organizations are being run out of the same UPS mailbox.

Subsidizing healthcare.

The real crisis in family medicine is that family doctors are subsidizing a broken and failing system.

80% of the interactions patients have with healthcare are at private physician funded clinics.

At $37 a visit (Ontario) we have to:

🔥When politicians like Pierre Poilievre claim our great democracies are broken, it's not because they want to fix them. It's because they want a license to demolish.🔥

Former BOC governor Mark Carney: 'It's a model that has been used time and time again. Create an external…