“Not everyone is in a position to advocate but the personal situation I am in, I can. Health care and planetary health intersect and I could no longer stay silent.” - Husein Moloo during our #ICRE2023 advocacy plenary @BoukaMD James Maskalyk #MedEd

“Find a place where you can stand …and your community will build there.” QT James Maskalyk #power and #privilege in #advocacy #ICRE2023

Congratulations, Dr. James Maskalyk, an emergency physician at St. Michael's Hospital, for being named one of Toronto Life's 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2023! Dr. Maskalyk is pushing to make mindfulness and wellness a priority in medicine. torontolife.com/deep-dives/the…

can someone help disambiguate how provinces decide how much $ to give hospitals? is part of the formula occupancy, ie, inpatient census? if so, needs to change from rewarding max occupancy to ideal (ie, 85%, above which, backlogs in ER/OR’s occur, and penalties should be applied)

viremia: all the aches of working out with none of the pesky exercise.

Some practises I try to employ to avoid a garbage EPIC note which is 98% of what I read. I'm curious what other clinicians do.

may providence bless ⁦City of Toronto 🇨🇦⁩ and ⁦Olivia Chow⁩ with the courage to follow through with a toronto version of this toll, improving the air and providing a massive influx of $ to invest in communities and public transit.

anesthesia fam. my father (79) fasted most of 6 days waiting for an "emergent" procedure. it led me to reflect on the % of people who vomited of the hundreds I've RSI'd in 20 years: zero-ish. he, however, lost 5 lbs muscle he won't get back. can we expand the notion of "risk"?

I graduated from my emergency residency, good god, 20 years ago. first time w MSF International just after. I like ER, and MSF for the same reason: lots of patients. human lives are just so interesting and beautiful. you want to give them every chance.

Amidst these perpetual ‘crisis in healthcare’ days, it was a joy to sit with Matt Galloway and a wider ER team to talk of our love for this difficult work, how we take care of each other. The Current: Caring for health-care workers who care for us; cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

James Maskalyk David Carr 100% this. I've gotten away from just a code status and write my full goals of care discussion. What is the goal of CPR, intubation, etc. This can really help contextualize the role of these interventions and allows for more nuance than the yes/no of code status.

dear FPs/consultants, when sending a patient into the ER, don't clinically hem us in by saying "patient needs imaging" (or equiv). it creates expectations, and sometimes they don't. at least add "at the discretion of the emergency physician". but you're cool for sending a note

i love my job as an emergency physician so much. i can’t imagine another medical specialty; it’s so interesting and flexible. AND if you’re a medical nerd, by the end of a career, you’ll have seen a wider variety of cases/helped more strangers than any other type of doctor.

carbon what? who needs oxygen when you can sit in a spa! in the cover of darkness, Therme Group Ontario Place for Everyone and Doug Ford showed their future-forward approach to urban redesign by knocking down a grove of hundreds of mature trees!

a mobile crisis nurse reported to me crystal meth, on the streets of toronto, costs….wait for it….$3/bump, cheaper than any beer. the crisis is getting worse, contributes greatly to homelessness. open air use is common. solutions? ban pseudophedrine/ephedrine? rx adderall? +?

to my american friends, i wish you the very best whatever your politics are. yours is an amazing country capable of so much good. may the next four years prove it more sincerely than any before.

glad to write an article for the The Globe and Mail about hospital crowding/wait times and how the public can show up for ERs instead of in them. one day, we won't need the rooms, and the medicine will come to us. until then, here are some things you can do: theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…