Thread by @ZiadFazel

Dr Markland is my favourite medical storyteller in Alberta, but I'm aching for the days when he can come home fulfilled from a great day at work, spend time with his family, then have the option to tell uplifting medical stories.

I tell stories with numbers.

https://twitter.com/drdagly/status/1443432901186449410

@jvipondmd @GosiaGasperoPhD @RajBhardwajMD @TehseenLadha @PfParks @shazmamithani @GermHunterMD @plasercalgary @Lauren_Global @DuaneBratt Source: statista.com/statistics/476…

Many healthcare professionals, patients, scientists, families, activists...have had to tell ugly stories too.

And explain how a healthcare system is supposed to work, and what Premier Kenney & CMOH are doing instead.

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Dear @strombone1 - I hope you don't mind me referring to you for this analogy.

Most healthcare workers just want to make save after save, appreciated but not world-famous, and then go home to their families, and spend time recharging & enjoying life.

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@strombone1 They want to be like this privately, or if called out in public, like this.

Instead, Alberta's healthcare workers are the world-class goalie, watching rest of team get pulled off the ice during sudden-death 4OT

1, 2 skaters gone - goalie yelling WTF at Coach
3,4 gone - goalie screaming up to GM & Owner
5 gone - goalie is begging to fans to get help.

In USA, leaders say "Hopes & Prayers" and "Don't exploit death for politics" when they must control guns.

Alberta?
• 2nd/3rd Wave "Personal Responsibility"
• 3rd/4th Wave "Get Vaccinated - Your Choice"
• 4th Wave "Endemic" and "Modelling"

Not real "Public Health Measures".

Correction: it isn't 816 Albertans in Hospital from COVID-19, it is 1084.

268 in ICU; 816 in non-ICU.
• Many of the 816 would be in ICU if it were not full
• So eg. Internal Medicine wards without Ventilators do their best to keep those folks alive until ICU spot w Vent opens