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Cutting back hours at St.Mikes will only INCREASE wait times.

This is more important than any other news. Millions rely on St. Micheal’s ER when on death’s doorstep. A problem at St. Mike’s is a problem for all of us. There is no rational world where ER doc hours in Ontario should be reduced. Make Dr Petrosoniak’s concerns go viral.

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Andrew Petrosoniak Doug Ford Sylvia Jones Unity Health Toronto Christopher Hicks David Carr Raghu Venugopal MD This is an outrageous decision that will negatively impact patient care, particularly with our patient population that is extremely vulnerable already. Patients deserve better than this.

Doctors of BC wants action plan over violence and overcrowding in emergency rooms vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/06/11/doc…

We support Ontario’s emergency physicians in caring for the province’s most seriously ill and injured patients. For many without a family doctor, the ER has become the front door to the health care system. 1/2

"Trust the process" rings a bit hollow, when the same leaders who brought us here are now being entrusted to solve a problem they neglected into creation. Doug Ford Sylvia Jones Andrew Petrosoniak

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Our department also lost physician hours several months ago, despite climbing patient numbers and complexity. We saw an immediate increase in wait times, which we know is not good for patient outcomes. This is so short sighted and will result in harm to Ontarians. CAEP

📣 Hot off the press: June Issue of CJEM link.springer.com/journal/43678/… • Just the Facts: Heat Stroke, Opioid Neurotoxicity & Delirium • Improving the delivery of care to patients receiving involuntary orders • CPR Quality data collection Garrick Mok • Improving patient care

📈 CPR data capture in the ED just got a major upgrade. Using QI methods, this team boosted CPR data availability in non-traumatic arrests from 48.7% → 89.1%! ✅ Better rate & depth ✅ Improved compression fraction ❌ CPR pauses <10s unchanged 🛠 Interventions: • EMS-to-ED

Not a lot of simulation, team performance or systems thinking here. Reset. #Portugal

Shocking and short sighted public policy by the MOH of Ontario. The impact will be even longer wait times and will undoubtedly harm patients.

Now let’s do this with the healthcare system. cc Christopher Hicks

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Some past convos worth revisiting: — Ep 18: Andrew Petrosoniak & Christopher Hicks  on team flow and trauma pressure @advperformHD — Ep 35: Carol-anne Moulton on how hierarchy shapes the OR — Ep 14: Samir C. Grover, M.D. on what med ed still misses The common thread? We keep building systems that make it

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You've probably seen headlines: High-Intensity Training is superior to easy aerobic running. But dig deeper and you'll notice a pattern: most of these studies are short: just 4 to 8 weeks. A recent review tells a fuller story. In the early weeks, HIT and Sprint Interval

Emergency medicine doesn’t wait. That’s why Dr. David Carr  (Ep 5) says new residents don’t need more speed. They need structure, backup, and brutal honesty. 📊 ER burnout? Over 50%. 🕒 Avg. delay in care? 18 mins. 💡 But systems—not doctors—usually fail first. This Canada

Get comfortable being uncomfortable.