Thread by @MaryFernando_

1/ My @MedicalPost article "a new clinical reality...: some survivors of the virus have long-term and serious morbidities. People don’t just die or survive and that clear cut dichotomy should be put to rest."
#COVID19
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2/ @DrRickSwartz “the capacity is so thin in the stroke system, as in many specialties, that it will overwhelm the system...Canada, with a population of more than 37 million people, has a total of 1,080 practicing neurologists as of 2019. That number is worrisome." #COVID19

3/ @nilikm "if she gets ill with COVID-19 and is unable to work, the overhead of her practice would bankrupt her because, like all other physicians in Canada, she has no benefits: no sick leave, no pension. If she closes her practice, her 1,400 patients have no care."

#COVID19

4/ @jkwan_md "She’s now getting more requests from patients in need of a family doctor but can’t accommodate them. “Everyone is working to the limit. This gives us less of an ability to adapt to the increasing needs during a pandemic.”

#COVID19

5/ @PEAKMD “As the need for care goes up with the additional needs from our current patients as well as the added need of patients with COVID, the number of physicians may go down, leaving fewer physicians available to meet this need. It is a crisis waiting to happen.”

#COVID19

6/ "Canada has a retention problem... As of 2016, there were 11,723 Canadian trained physicians in the United States and in 2008 a full 19% of all foreign trained doctors in OECD countries were Canadian."
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