Saw a patient recently without housing who was in and out of hospital. But how could we keep calling them “hard to reach” or “lost to follow-up” when they didn’t have a cell phone? Peer workers in the Stabilization Centre/ER set up a phone for him and the next morning I got a

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in NL tomorrow. He’s making a child care announcement with Premier Andrew Furey, and then a town hall with the Clarenville Chamber of Commerce #nlpoli

My 4 take home points from CAEP #CAEP24 Saskatoon

Please stop telling people with high blood pressure but no other symptoms that they MUST GO TO THE ER RIGHT NOW. When you give them this urgency, and our recommended practice is to not intervene on patients with good follow-up, we are setting everyone up to be disappointed/upset.

A lesson in life. Call from a colleague today… “Keith, I’ve got a 80 year old man with jaundice and fever from a large 2cm gallstone wedged in the bile duct. He’s on anticoagulation for PE. I just have a bad feeling about him and I think he needs an ERCP today.”

Here’s why your ER doctors are not leaving. In the face of the turmoil and the understaffing and the long wait times, I try to practice from a place of gratitude, by Dr. Eric Angus thestar.com/opinion/contri… via Toronto Star Howard Ovens

Happy New Year! To celebrate, why not spend some time reading the top 10 posts on First10EM in 2023? Number 1: Don’t prescribe tramadol #FOAMed first10em.com/tramadol/

No beds Critically ill patients in hallways Hours of EMS offload delay Emergency medicine in Ontario is incredibly unsafe right now

« Gender inequity in emergency medicine affects women-identifying providers at all levels of training across Canada » 🗣️ Great research from the team Qemresearch QueensEM Gabriele Jagelaviciute Melissa Bouwsema Damon Dagnone Melanie Walker CJEM link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s…

We often criticize ED physicians who go too fast. We worry about the harm they may cause to their patients. The unpopular take is to criticize those who go way too slow. We often fail to worry about the patients they don’t see. The waiting TBS. I worry a lot about them.

Comparing rural and urban outcomes of ‘community emergency’ patients at EDs in NL @SRPCanada; great job Amber Hodder for delivering the presentation, and to Kurtis Butt RMurphy Pamela Doran and others for your contributions to this project! We need better care for older

Change starts with respect and a new brand. Family physicians are often called GPs or non-specialists. Medical students who “specialize”in family medicine are called family physicians. It’s time to recognize that family physicians are specialists too. The College of Family Physicians of Canada

Basilar artery stroke: - only 1% of strokes - 90% mortality ⁦Katie Lin MD MPH 🇨🇦⁩ #EMU2024

Thnx for the opportunity to speak at #EMU2024! What a brilliant group of dedicated EM minds coming together to learn ♡ Basilar Artery Stroke take-homes: 🧠 Sudden Coma NYD - THINK about basilar stroke. LOOK for voluntary gaze. CTA w/o delay. ✅️ EVT NNT = 4 NYGH's EM Update

One of the best educators in EM Arun Sayal gave one of the best inspirational talks I've ever heard, this AM at an amazing conference NYGH's EM Update, "Better the Ball," about simply focusing on making every tough situation just a bit better for the next person #EMU2024 #FOAMed

Doctors and naturopaths and chiropractors sell supplements not because they care about you, because they care about your money

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How is that >98% of Danes have a GP? Part of the answer lies in their approach to training physicians. Here's a summary of some of what I've learned on my trip to Denmark 🇩🇰 🧵 (the photo here is a wall of some of the 170+ residents trained at the practice I visited)

Huge congrats to Kurtis Butt on your moderated poster this afternoon 🎉🩺🤓 ‘Community emergency’ patients are an important population often forgotten about and with bad outcomes if not dispositioned appropriately, we need to do better! Other co-authors: Amber Hodder

Shorter courses of antibiotics cmaj.ca/content/196/37… Antimicrobial resistance is an urgent threat Longer antibiotic courses increase the likelihood of adverse effects and resistance Most acute community-acquired infections can be treated with 5–7 days of antibiotics