The CPSO clears doctor accused of gender discrimination for the second time. My latest: theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

I received a letter from Public Health PHAC confirming what we knew - Novavax is not on the fall vaccine menu. Though I was a bit surprised...paraphrasing: "if you're not able to receive the mRNA vaccine...there's Paxlovid." Hardly the best alternative when there's a 2nd vaccine type.🤷🏼‍♂️

Canada specific FAQs on the updated Covid-19 vaccines 🧵 1/8

"The college’s decision 'continues to reflect a reluctance to take discrimination allegations against doctors seriously'.... Despite the fact that discrimination cases are difficult to prove... in this case 'the evidence of discrimination was unusually strong.'"

"The college’s decision 'continues to reflect a reluctance to take discrimination allegations against doctors seriously'.... [Despite the fact that] in this case 'the evidence of discrimination was unusually strong.'" By Wendy Glauser theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Michelle Cohen, MD Wendy Glauser They set an impossible bar to prove discrimination here. Not a single woman hired in 16 years is incredible. This will go back to court for sure.

CPSO Please familiarize yourselves with the concept of "the inexorable zero." If you don't believe there was discrimination, then you're essentially asserting that zero women were hired because there were no women applicants of merit. CWIM Organization proquest.com/openview/17fe9…

An impossible fix, or an essential one? We need to do a better job of protecting patients and health care workers form hospital-acquired infections like #COVID19, by 𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 [email protected] David Keegan ♿️🏳️‍🌈 he/him calgaryherald.com/opinion/column… via @CalgaryHerald Dennis Kendel

This is leadership, thank you Amira Elghawaby

ICYMI (like I did) Danyaal Raza and Karen Palmer wrote a great piece on private equity in health care last month and why Canadians should be concerned. healthydebate.ca/2024/07/topic/…

An important piece by 𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 [email protected] & David Keegan ♿️🏳️‍🌈 he/him. Painful truth: we do not know how to keep HCWs well. There are numerous occupational threats to safety & wellbeing beyond #COVID, but we track nothing, so we do nothing. 1/2 calgaryherald.com/opinion/column… via Calgary Herald

This is to say nothing of the fact that kids are going into crowded classrooms with no clean-air standards & a covid wave that rivals the Omicron tsunami. As a parent w/ a newborn at home, I'm not at all impressed with the govt abdication to prevent disease #CovidIsAirborne

First restricting the health care of trans youth, then (illegally?) restricting the vaccine rights of minors... what's next for Alberta, restricting birth control? Oh yeah they're selling public hospitals to Catholic institutions that ban reproductive health care.

Michelle Cohen, MD Oh, and don't forget reducing how many kids get sex ed... Apparently this is what some consider the "Alberta Advantage"

There are many vulnerabilities in our modern information ecosystems. Here is a prime example of why influencers as a class need to be regulated. ⬇️ These propped-up losers profited because they spread as Russian propaganda & should be held accountible. npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-…

Thank goodness. I was really worried he was going to deliver on the ending hallway medicine promise instead.

I feel like if people are unable to solve the mystery of “why am I getting paid six figures per YouTube video” then they may not be equipped to provide useful analysis on more complex political and cultural issues.