A good friend of mine, a Black female surgery resident is currently struggling mightily at her program. She feels unfairly targeted and punished. Unfortunately, there's no mentorship at her hospital. Any Black female surgeons willing to be her mentor? I can connect you. 🙏🏾

Olympic gold medallist Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to UK as child, given new name and forced to work as domestic servant bbc.in/3OVunoy

Do you know a post-secondary student in Canada who lost a parent to cancer? They could qualify for the #RealTalkRJ Julie Rohr ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡ °) In Memoriam Scholarship, and receive $5,000 toward their studies. Applications close August 1st. Please share! ryanjespersen.com/scholarship

New ATS Podcast about having a career caring for patients with serious illness and then developing a serious illness: A Conversation with Dr. Curtis #als #ats #palliativecare thoracic.org/about/ats-podc…

Congrats to my friend Lana Castellucci for her new job!!! I’m sure @grelegal is relieved to know this important program is in such good hands!

Police stopped and profiled this black man while he was standing in his own front yard, demanding he ID himself or go to jail.

Happy to share my thoughts in CMAJ latest issue exploring the Black experience in surgery University of Toronto U of T Department of Surgery Black Medical Students’ Association at U of T UofT General Surgery Black Physicians of Canada Black Physicians' Association of Ontario UpSurge #MedTwitter #SurgTwitter #BlackTwitter #Surgery

1/ BREAKING: Prioritizing discharging patients first rounding style did not result in earlier discharges! Check out our @JHospMed article! …mpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jh… A 🧵

The Division of Palliative Care at the University of Ottawa is hiring Palliative Care physicians. Come and join a rapidly growing academic division in a vibrant city! cspcp.ca/wp-content/upl…

I will be closing down my Twitter in 2 weeks. Meanwhile: My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon nytimes.com/2023/04/18/opi…

New study found residents who work >48 hours per wk were more likely to report >preventable adverse events >medication errors >occupational exposures Those working 60-70 hrs had > 2x as many medical errors & almost 3x preventable adverse events. #MedEd bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/2/1/e0…

Leadership lessons from farmers 🚜 Stop shouting at and mistreating the crops. Its pointless! Instead nurture, fertilise and irrigate them. Throwing 💩 on them just won’t work!

My new paper in JAMA Internal Medicine on hospital cultures and its influence intensity of end-of-life care. This is deeply meaningful to me as its my last paper with J Randall Curtis ❤️ Grateful to mentors Dan Dohan Christine Seel Ritchie jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

GIM specialists- please take some time to complete this important survey Januvi Jega

Empathy in medicine is more than saying the right words or even having right feelings. It’s the spark to action and presence for the person who is suffering. Los Angeles Times L.A. Times Opinion #AI #hapc #graphicmedicine latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Check out this new publication from members of our group on SICP! utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.22… Krista Wooller Peter Munene Daniel Kobewka Sydney Ruller

“Implementing the Serious Illness Care Program on a General Internal Medicine Ward: A Quality Improvement Study” – See this article and more in the latest issue of the Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine! utpjournals.press/toc/cjgim/19/1

“Implementing the Serious Illness Care Program on a General Internal Medicine Ward: A Quality Improvement Study” is now available in CJGIM 19.1. Read #openaccess research on using the Serious Illness Conversation Guide in a GIM ward: bit.ly/CJGIM191c UTP Journals CSIM

The potential impact of this RCT is huge. First one to prove that exercise has benefits equal to many standard treatments for cancer. Wow! Congrats to #ChrisBooth, #KerryCourneya eg al. Go Canada! nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…