heard a staff say they worked 16hrs w/out breaks restocking clean infection control gowns across the hospital. reinforced importance of extending solidarity to all staff keeping our health system running when discussing health care burnout & labour protection

When people ask me what I mean about wanting mutual aid a lot more than I want more self-care, this is (part of) what I mean:

Imagine a world where we said, what’s going on with the children? So many of them are angry and distressed after school. So many of them are shut in their bedrooms. So many of them are anxious and unhappy. So many of them disillusioned at 15. 1;

We’d build adventure playgrounds & make schools places full of opportunities and choices. We’d surround them with adults who valued their voices & helped them to learn about things they love, We’d build workshops and studios where they could learn skills and find meaning. 4/

Not good news on #tuberculosis with an increase in cases and deaths, but reduced detection & treatment. 1.6 million people died of TB in 2021. We need a coordinated global effort, more investments, R&D for better drugs and vaccines & a better understanding of subclinical TB

Sad to hear that in the midst of an escalating Ebola outbreak in Uganda, clinics are short-staffed, lack PPE, and health-workers aren't adequately protected or paid. Grim update The New Humanitarian thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2022/11/0…

During my PhD a mentor offered me the chance to be on a $1,000,000 grant. To recognise the brainstorming, and discussions we had they made me an AI. This is the type of uplifting and recognition in research projects that will grow our Pacific and Indigenous academy.

if more ppl worked before med school they would revolt against working conditions in medicine

Hey #MedTwitter! Do the words "culture change" come up often when thinking about your internal medicine program? What does "culture" even mean? We're looking at that very question for our #qualitativeresearchproject.

A Dutch supermarket chain introduced slow checkouts for people who enjoy chatting, helping many people, especially the elderly, deal with loneliness. The move has proven so successful that they installed the slow checkouts in 200 stores.

i just signed Canadian Doctors for Medicare’s open letter calling for evidence-based solutions to fix our health care crisis including: 1)Team-Based Primary Care 2)Pharmacare 3)Single-Entry Specialist Referrals 4)Home Care 5)HHR Planning Join me in adding your name: act.newmode.social/790171832t

As an IM resident in the ICU, I felt like my male colleagues were doing tons of lines while I got few. I wondered: am I imagining this? Is this gendered? Turns out others wondered the same. So we decided to study it. The results are now out in @atsscholar. atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.34…

When people have free time, they have time to be revolutionary.

Now that we know that pulse oximetry is inaccurate in Black patients, the new name is FalseOx. “…in two large cohorts, Black patients had nearly three times the frequency of occult hypoxemia that was not detected by pulse oximetry as White patients.” nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Thinking of this bell hooks quote today: “For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?” That’s the work.

Woke up to the news that a patient of mine died at a nearby hospital from a bacterial infection that responded to zero antibiotics. Zero. The bacteria, Acinetobacter baumanii was resistant to every single antibiotic tested. Every one of them. He was only 62 years old. He had an

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