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6 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
1...As a doctor I am morally very concerned that the @UCPCaucus intention to open up Alberta (just as the hyper-infectious variants descend upon the province) is going to push our system deeply back into overburdened, slowing down services and costing people time and life...2
2...in seeking care for their mortal illnesses, resources that will be exhausted caring for people who could have avoided getting COVID.

However....

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3...having a family member be diagnosed with a deadly condition today that will require surgery for cure...I will be veganly enraged if this person’s care is delayed by an upswing in COVID cases and it results in anything but the best outcomes for them.
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4...@Shandro, @jkenney

This will be on you, and this will follow you further than you can ever imagine. Generations....5

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More from @John1MD

2 Feb
1...@AHS_media @UCPCaucus @shandro
I have had multiple patients now test + for COVID, without me being notified. AHS has a protocol they want family docs to follow where we contact patients at home every 2 days to ensure patients are coping/recovering...2
2...That's the extent of the healthcare people are being offered at first contact. However, if AH doesn't even notify the GPs of their patient's status, not even this can be acted upon. This is ignoring the huge burden this is on GPs...3
3...
AHS: "Continue to deliver all the care you have done in the past".
UCP: "While we continue to attack, malign and lie about you"
AHS: "Now we want you to start phone triaging all the COVID cases for us, for complications over the phone"...4
Read 4 tweets
1 Jan
1...As a free person I took 2 weeks off over Christmas and New Years. As a family doctor I needed to continued to attend to the health needs of my patients, especially in nursing homes, sacrificing my stay-cation. As a frontline health worker, I specifically saw and cared...2
2...for a patient who ultimately passed away from COVID 2 days ago. While others dashed away from the house fire of COVID, I charged in (with full PPE). Then, I hear the same UCP govt that accused me as over entitled and a burden to the healthcare system...3
3...that @UCPCaucus @YourAlberta government largely took off to the international tropics, DURING A PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN, to have precious holiday time likely SPENDING ALBERTA DOLLARS outside of Alberta...4
Read 4 tweets
24 Nov 20
1...Here we have an example of how this could have been predicted if the @UCPCaucus was listening. Instead of seeking to protect Albertans, they have decided to serve up a horror movie for us to live through into Christmas. If we are hitting 6400 cases a day by then...
2...and the prevailing death rate is 1% (48,000 cases so far and 480 deaths, in Alberta), that means 450 Albertans will die over the Christmas week. That means that Alberta will cycle through its complete allotment of ICU beds almost twice that week, with every...3
3...every patient getting shipped to the morgue. That is what the UCP knows is going to happen. But they WILL NOT ACT RESPONSIBLY. That means 100 Edmontonians will die that week, 136 Calgarians will die that week, 10 Red Deerians, 9 in Lethbridge, 6 in Medicine Hat...4
Read 5 tweets
23 Nov 20
1...It is clear, we won’t have a rational COVID plan in Alberta until the UCP is completely out of legislature. And, people who die between now and then can’t be made undead. So, Albertans, what will you do? Every Monday @jkenney is still in power, is a higher risk that...2
2...someone you love will not make it through this. Every Tuesday that @shandro is still the minister of health, is a rising risk that your family member will pass away gasping for air needing a respirator they can’t access...3
3...every Wednesday that Jason Luan is still in office is a higher risk that your child can’t get life saving trauma surgery after their car accident...4
Read 6 tweets
23 Nov 20
1...I have heard from a number of colleagues across the province. Many of them have been “in contact” with people that have subsequently been swabbed for various reasons, to be found +ve. Yet, these physicians have not been contacted by tracers...2
2...most times they receive lab results showing a +ve (on labs not ordered by them, so there is no direct indication that a contact was made) and then have to trace back their interactions themselves. In some cases their patients have notified them directly...3
3...but in each of these cases, NO CONTACT TRACING OCCURRED. I even know people swabbed back in March AND STILL HAVE NOT BEEN CONTACTED (they had to notify their doctor and the doctor had to pointedly search through netcare to get the results-no push notification happened)...4
Read 9 tweets
21 Nov 20
1...To every small business owner: masks save you from this situation: A colleague saw a pt the other day, the pt next day learned they had been exposed, and 3 days later they were +, because the pt and doc wore masks, that doc now doesn’t have to shut down...2
2...that clinic while awaiting a swab -, and hoping not to develop symptoms. That clinic business didn’t lose thousands, 60-300 patients didn’t lose their appointments. Every other small business, where the owner’s presence is essential, would suffer the same impacts...3
3...and every industry that relies on small businesses doesn’t need to feel that customer impact. So, if you value the clinics, the small businesses, direct service providers, contractors...wear a damned mask. Prove you could give a damn about others.
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