"Just a cold." cbc.ca/radio/quirks/l…

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Backlash won’t stop Birgit Umaigba from advocating for more equity and diversity in health care. She's determined to make Canada collect and publish race-based data in health care, by Laura Eggertson canadian-nurse.com/blogs/cn-conte… via Canadian Nurses Association Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi #nursing #sdoh

🔥🔥🔥 Eminem destroys MAGA supporters and asks what in the hell middle class white people have in common with a billionaire who never had to struggle. Eminem is SPOT on!

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Five babies in England reported dead after developing whooping cough Fears of biggest UK outbreak in two decades as 2,793 cases confirmed in first quarter of 2024 theguardian.com/society/articl…

Rambling about shark electrocutions is not normal. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

We have 10,000 people moving to BC every 37 days. 100,000 people a year. We need ten more family doctors every 37 days or 100 more per year to keep up with population growth. We have about 120 family doctors retire per year. So 220 per year needed just to keep status quo. We have

The BC Health Authority model is a complete disaster. Bloated bureaucracy. Patient care not priority #1. As Penny Daflos outlines, nurses & docs hate working in this broken system. Voters should demand a government that will tell the truth & completely dismantle this mess.

"We are completely under-investigating this virus. The effects of repeatedly getting this throughout our lives is going to be much more significant than people are thinking." theweek.com/health/covid-1…

Can we Albertans now have an honest conversation about the trajectory the world is on, and our role in its shittification? Please?

Until you have seen "sore throats" in the ICU, OR or dead - it's easy to say they should be managed at a pharmacy. There are fundamentally good reasons med school is 4 years followed by 2-5 years more training and heavy continuing education and feedback. ottawacitizen.com/news/ontario-c…

Interesting article discussing some of the theories why COVID seems to spike in the summer, whereas other airborne viruses don’t. scientificamerican.com/article/covid-…

Thankfully, my brief foray into politics is over but someone needs to wade through the political gaslighting of today’s press conference. I will try to focus on actual science and medicine. Excuse the length of this 🧵but it could have been longer… 1/9 news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2024H…

How does BC manage to have less than 200 people with a positive Covid test in hospital during the biggest surge since Omicron? No testing=No patients with positive tests

Growing number of hospital ERs in B.C. are closing due to lack of staff. Double the number of health care workers are calling in sick compared with before the pandemic, by Joseph Ruttle vancouversun.com/news/emergency… via The Vancouver Sun #CanadaWAITS #COVID19

5/20 Here's costs & visits for all UPCCs for one year (Apr/2022-Mar/2023). Averages out to $129 per UPCC “visit.” More than TRIPLE a FFS FP visit at an independent clinic. An average LFP visit would need to be >45min to match (good luck!). One in four UPCCs are >$200/visit!