Chief of Emergency Medicine, Unity Health Toronto-St. Michael's Hospital, Clinician-Scientist at UofToronto, MAP, LKSKI, & iHPME. She/Her. MD, MPH, FRCPC.
Oct 13, 2022 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
No need to rely on a leaked report - health care workers have been sounding this alarm for years - and especially the past few months. This is the worst I have seen in my 19 years in emergency medicine. So why is this happening? 1/
Inflow >> Outflow. #s of patients waiting for transfer from our hospital to a LTC (full), repatriation back to a hospital in their home region (full), or to home (no home care available) FAR EXCEEDS #s of patients waiting in the ED for a bed on the ward 2/
Apr 16, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I can't write anything tonight that will reflect the despair I feel about @fordnation's gross mismanagement of this pandemic - again today, I saw such clear systemic racism affecting our patients, vaccine shortages, outbreaks in shelters... I just can't. I am too angry.
Too much energy needed that I must save for tomorrow - I will get up and tell patients and their families of COVID diagnoses, empathize with their fear, while quelling my anger at @fordnation who ignored our expertise. They are responsible for the death of so many of my patients.
