Centralized referral system for specialist and diagnostic care would shorten wait times, free up family physicians to see more patients, and save lives. It’s a low cost, win win win idea whose time is overdue.

Many of us love medicine because it is a visual discipline. A short 🧵with snapshots on tongue changes #MedTwitter 1/

Check out the latest episode of the AirWayve Podcast, a one-of-a-kind resource that explores introductory concepts in anesthesia—proudly created for students, by students from McMaster’s UGME program!

Video review is the future (and should be the norm) in acute care medicine & trauma! Great work @RPDumasMD & colleagues! The notion that we perform high stakes clinical care without routinely reviewing these is counter to everything we know about performance improvement. 1/

Very disappointing to hear Danielle Martin avoid the elephant in the room. Family physicians are straight up underpaid. Its not easy to discuss when we're talking about 6 figure incomes but when there's a choice as a med student between higher & lower paying jobs.. 1/

Remembering a life that touched so many hearts and left an indelible mark on this day, the anniversary of Dr. Candace Nayman's passing. Our memory is of a warm, energetic & ambitious young doctor (who loved hotdogs!) and was a steadfast advocate of blood donation. 💙 #RIPCandace

Just to illustrate the problem, here is something I see in the ED a lot. This is a MADE UP PATIENT reflecting trends, not an individual. Man in his 70s coming in feeling weak for “a while.” Fell today. No family doctor for 8 years. Has been on the same medications ever since.

An interesting report of severe bronchospasm presenting as an absent waveform capnography trace after multiple re-intubations. However, there is no clear description of timings and whether exhaled CO2 ultimately was detected? Tim Cook Nicholas Chrimes journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Sault Ste. Marie is experiencing a devastating crisis. Without action, nearly 30% of the population could be without a family doc in the next year. It’s not an isolated situation. This is an example of what's happening across Ontario. Read more: bit.ly/3tXE2pz #SaultNews

Pediatric Anesthesia Pro Tip #92: Don't get stuck in your ways. While developing your artform is key to expert practice, try new things once in a while. Today I tried cisatricurium for the first time 😃. This concept allows our trainees to teach us and expands our repertoire.

#LUCAS2024 High Flow Nasal Oxygen Applications @DrAlanLane

“In Ontario, more than 2.2 million people are currently without a family doctor. Another 1.7 million are looked after by a doctor who is 65 or older. The Ontario College of Family Physicians predicts more than four million Ontarians will be without a family doctor by 2026…”

A sad state of affairs. My dad, still working in his 70s as a GP and doesn't want to abandon his patients has spent >18 months trying to recruit young grads to take over his practice. No one is interested. This is in part the reason. The numbers simply just dont make sense.

(5/5) #5: In EMS, you spend you entire 12 hour shift in the ambulance with your partner. With the right person, this develops close partnership and friendship. Sometimes in a large hospital this can be more difficult to achieve, but developing comradery, trust, and even

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(1/x) Intubating a critically ill patients is the most dangerous procedure we do in the ICU (3.1% cardiac arrest rate) not because of hypoxia or tube placement, but hemodynamic collapse 🫀 (Russotto et al. JAMA 2021) A 🧵on making high risk hemodynamic intubations as safe as