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http://www.medicine.utoronto.ca 21-10-2009 14:28:42
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Today, alongside our UofT Family Medicine community, we celebrate primary care physicians and their invaluable work as educators, advocates and frontline caregivers. Happy #WorldFamilyDoctorDay to all family doctors at #TemertyMed and around the world! 💙

Poor health outcomes shouldn’t be chalked up to genetics, says #TemertyMed's Dr. Onye Nnorom. The Black Health Primer—co-led by Dr. Nnorom—challenges anti-Black racism in health care by confronting history, data gaps, and harmful myths. Toronto Star bit.ly/4dq7xlT







Dr. Fahima Osman arrived in Canada as an 11-year-old refugee, and grew up the eldest of 9 kids. Today, she is a surgical oncologist and the first Somali refugee to become a doctor in Canada. This great The Globe and Mail piece about Dr. Osman is a must-read. bit.ly/3Ful2Vh


#TemertyMed Drs. Claudia dos Santos and John Marshall, and University of Toronto Engineering's Teodor Veres create new technology to improve sepsis testing. bit.ly/4kIoDhD




How do we address the shortage of family doctors? "We need to ensure that (family medicine) is actually the best remunerative option for them and has fantastic working conditions compared to hospitals," says #TemertyMed's Dr. Tara Kiran Toronto Star bit.ly/43XNur1




New research by #TemertyMed and Unity Health Toronto experts shows the portfolio diet— which is plant-based—can seriously lower heart disease risk and all-cause mortality. bit.ly/43P3L2p