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Health Cards should be renewable where patients receive care.

Nearly every day in the ICU we have an OHIP-eligible patient with an expired healthcard.

Hospitals forego revenue and MDs work for free.

These patients can't go to Staples.

If @ongov wants to make HC renewal more convenient, it should also be available in hospitals.

Expired Health Cards should be renewable at the point of care.

HC renewal reminders are no longer sent to most 16-70.

Expired HCs will show up in ICUs/ERs/Clinics w/ greater frequency.

Sick patients w/o family to go to Service Ontario for them, can't get their HC renewed.

If targeting Jewish businesses becomes an accepted form of Jew hatred in Toronto...how long until Jewish schools, synagogues, homes and even individuals...are next.

Do not make space for Jew hate.

Jews make up 1.4% of the Canadian population.

Jews standing up against Jew hatred will not be enough.

The Jew hunting in Russia may seem far away, but we have seen this happen before.

Now is the time for non-Jews to stand up against Jew hatred.

We need you.

I reported two acts of antisemitism to Toronto Police in the past two days.

Both have been categorized “hate crimes.“

I’ve lived here my entire life and never experienced this.

Tolerance and understanding must prevail over ignorance and hate.

Great thread.

264/1430 ie. 18.5% of family medicine residency positions went unfilled in Canada in 2023.

When medical students consider opportunity cost, debt load and working conditions as a trainee, how will adding a year to residency motivate them to choose family medicine?

The status quo wastes millions needed for patient care.

What prevents hospitals from collaborating?
Become price setters vs. price takers in the agency nurse market.

What if hospitals banned agencies altogether & worked with unions to create more flexible scheduling?

The privatization of nursing care in Ontario is costing taxpayers millions of dollars (fees paid to agencies exceed union rate + pension/benefits)

Premier Ford should be protecting hospitals from predatory pricing by for-profit agencies.

Public $ continue to enrich private agencies.
Rates up 2X. Costs in the $100s of millions.
Why hasn’t @ongov attended to this vital issue as they promised in Aug’22?
Ontario spending on private nursing agencies quadrupled since COVID-19, data show /via theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Similar experience in ICU.
Patients overdose, require life support, survive and then want to go to detox for help....but there are no beds...so they are discharged back to the street or shelter.

This ad for the French women’s national team ahead of the #FIFAWWC is something.

1st year residents with $250K in educational debt are now paying ~ 35% of their after-tax income to cover just the interest on their line of credit.

At a time when thousands do not have a family physician, we should consider how debt level can affect specialty choice.

My colleague Brooks Fallis continues an uphill battle with a public hospital to uncover the truth.

Ontario doctor’s fight for his employment records reveals flaws in Canada’s FOI system /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Speaking to U of T Department of Surgery graduating residents on the connection between financial vulnerability and physician burnout.

Personal finance education, mentorship and planning can help keep clinical practice enjoyable.

Recommendation 12 from the 1st interim SARS commission report (2004) on how best to reform public health In Ontario.

Neither politicians nor their operatives should be interfering with communications between the CMOH and the public.

Private agencies took advantage of COVID by ~doubling amount they charge hospitals/nursing hour.

Now they are charging “surge“ pricing of $300/h.

Why isn’t Doug Ford standing up against predatory pricing ?

The use of private nursing agencies costs hospitals/taxpayers millions.

@ongov promised to stabilize agency fees in Aug ’22.

They haven’t

Instead, they fight to keep nurses wages suppressed while encouraging private clinics which will make hospitals more reliant on agencies.