Healthcare is an important election issue for many in BC. Doctors of BC represents over 14000 BC MDs who strive to excellence in care for the patients and populations they serve while achieving maximum professional satisfaction and fair economic reward. #BCDocsCare #BCPoli

#ICYMI Read Dr. Botha's story about the value of accurate patient populations, (like patients living with COPD, asthma, heart failure) to manage proactive and regular patient care: hdcbc.ca/creating-pract… #healthdata #patientcare

Trevor Jain CAEP alan drummond As winter approaches we will see and hear the usual suspects finger-wag at patients with minor conditions they are bad people for attending the ER. In fact: 1) patients define emergencies, not administrators. 2) bed blockage is our problem, not a prescription refill.

Fantastic webinar from Ontario Medical Association Women on Microaggression in the Workplace. Actionable suggestions & discussion of real harm that inequity causes in our profession. My little bedtime avoiding buddy enjoyed it too! 🙏🏾 Samira Jeimy Michelle Cohen, MD Reena Pattani Dr Fiona Pinto

The rate of miscarriage is high with unmatched compassionate care. Management through a dedicated streamlined approach is key cmaj.ca/content/196/34… BORN Ontario PCMCH gabe network North York General Temerty Medicine Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi CMAJ Vrati Mehra, MSc, MD candidate Salwa Farooqi

Thoughtful JAMA Internal Medicine viewpoint by Brad Spellberg on why hospitals should create a "policy to override policies": jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai… Policies are important to standardize processes and procedures and ensure patient safety. But no policy or procedure can anticipate all

Health care workers, stop, collaborate and listen to “what matters” to patients, care partners and other staff 💗

Quote “The Quebec government seems ready to pay more money for less comprehensive care in order to provide the illusion of quicker access. But this further erodes the bedrock principle of family medicine, which is that one doctor should be responsible for a dedicated population”

Bringing the voices of Family Doctors to Parliament Hill - ⁦The College of Family Physicians of Canada⁩ lobby days kicking off now. ⁦Carrie Bernard MD she/her⁩ ⁦Christie Newton⁩

Random thought on the #healthcare human #resource crisis: I am starting to worry that no novel payment model will fix the damage caused by a decade of increasing tuition & living costs. #MedEd impovrishes people. It really does.

Now THIS is an unnecessary visit. People should see a doctor if they feel it's required for **medical** reasons, not as some audit function of the company's HR policies

"If we can get rid of something that really has no medical benefit to anybody, but does add to the workload that family doctors are experiencing, that's a real win for all of us." Watch Dr. Dr. Joss Reimer on CTV News discuss the need to eliminate sick notes: bit.ly/3BZso0V

THIRTY percent of our 🇨🇦 medical system is already private (accessible only to those w insurance). Completely inane to bog down public system w admin of private system. Unfair to people without insurance, waste of time for everyone else, except for $$$corporations #BCDocsCare

A milestone worth celebrating: 49 women are set to serve in the #BCLeg 43rd Parliament, marking the first time in BC's history that more women than men will take their seat in the Legislative Chamber (also a first for a Canadian provincial legislature) #WomensHistoryMonth #BCpoli

Just a gentle reminder that if you don’t fund rehabilitation, you don’t believe in health equity. Hillel Finestone MD

Why Canada Post? Because if you're in very rural areas good luck getting a private carrier to work - not profitable. That's why it's public and why it shouldn't be asked to turn a profit . We need it #SupportPostalWorkers

Invite us, hear us, train us and support us. These are the keys items to accelerate #interoperability. @drkathleenross1 joins members of the Digital Health Interoperability Task Force at the @infoway Partnership Conference to discuss the results from its recommendation report.

Let’s drive meaningful change together! Download the full report to learn more about how we can collectively build a more integrated and efficient healthcare system. infoway-inforoute.ca/en/component/e… digital-health-interoperability-task-force-report

Thanks to NBA Toronto Raptors for the support against Gender-Based Violence. #wearPurple #EndGBV #noExcuse Nav Bhatia Superfan FMWCanada Black Physicians of Canada @IPACIndigenous Canadian Medical Association

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🎗️🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Today the Jewish Medical Association (#JMAO) sounded the alarm about #antisemitism in Healthcare It held a press conference at Queen’s Park to release the results of a national survey of Jewish Doctors in Canada The results are shocking! Must-read🧵…