What’s up in Red Lake? Come and do a rural PG FM elective and find out! You’ll hone your skills, learn from terrific clinical faculty, and have fun! And you may just see the spectacular #NorthernLights! #MedEd #GoNorth 1/ @nwontdoctor Resident Doctors Section of Residents

.CMAJ launched entirely new podcast this week with regular hosts mojola omole 🌈 Blair Bigham 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈. "The inconvenience of motherhood" explores what can be done personally and systemically to improve parenthood for MDs cmaj.ca/page/multimedi…

This is my *top 10* favorite methods papers of 2021

The speed of Omicron has not yet been matched by the speed of our response. Thanks to COVIDScienceOntario for making the consequences of non-action so clear. A must read - covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/upl… Here's my blog cmajblogs.com/omicron-we-can…

I know #RATs rollout to the public is a massive challenge. But we need to do this with some measure of equity for Northern & rural populations. This map shows the sites in N. Ont where #RATs are available. 700km from SSM to TBay; no access further North. We can do better.

Sauna snow angels help a bit with the Omicron blues

Earl winter hiking in Killarney Provincial Park this weekend for Karen's BD. Didn't meet a single person either day and exceptionally beautiful

A patient presents with 3(!!!) different infections from a tick bite at the same time. Although still rare, multiple infections are increasing. Always examine the skin cmaj.ca/content/cmaj/1… Roy Khalife Danyal Ladha @bogochisaac

48 deaths in Ontario provincial jails in 2021; 21 in 2020. What's going on? Don't know because causes of death and institutions where death occured not released. Governments talk about transparency but..... thestar.com/news/gta/2022/… Stephen Hwang

I am a "show me the RCT" kinda guy, but the results of this study make me think an RCT is justified - people taking metformin had a lower likelihood of undergoing hip or knee arthroplasty than those who weren't cmaj.ca/content/cmaj/1… Gillian Hawker

2 reasons for posting this. Sophie is a cute pretend-bear. But mostly because i don't understand the physics behind how so much snow can cling to thin branches without falling off

Cool study from BC makes the case for SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence studies. Interesting how almost everyone has now been vaccinated, infected or both. But older and younger folks got there via v different routes cmaj.ca/content/cmaj/1… Isaac Bogoch

Honoured to be appointed to Order of Canada. Congratulations to other recipients who I look forward to meeting gg.ca/en/order-canad… (I am not a big ceremony guy, but I am going to this one!). Thx to all people and institutions who have supported and challenged me Governor General of Canada

Polio virus detected in wastewater in Canada. This 300 word article in CMAJ provides useful information about polio for clinicians cmaj.ca/content/cmaj/1…

One of the many things I like about James Maskalyk is his on-the-ground realism about what ails our health care system (there's lots!) coupled with a glass-half-full enthusiasm about making it better. That comes through in this G&M article theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… CMAJ

Thanks to Robin for sharing her experience with having surgery while breastfeeding cmaj.ca/content/cmaj/1… Provides a patient perspective on a Five Things to Know article on the topic cmaj.ca/content/195/25… CMAJ Elise Graham, MD, FRCSC, IBCLC, NABBLM-C #breastfeedingsupport