This study is an opportunity for men in Ontario who experienced suicidal thoughts during the pandemic to discuss their experiences - please retweet and share!

It is just an absolute joy to be along for the ride on this work and to get to see folks connecting around a topic I care so much about 💜

This weekend, we brought Nova Scotia in a room 34 members of the public spent 30+ hrs learning from experts and deliberating on primary care Despite different backgrounds, life experiences & political views, there was a lot they agreed on Here’s some of what they said 🧵

Just a reminder, attendance to the 2023 North American Indigenous Games games is FREE (no tickets just first come, first served) and live/on-demand streams of many of the events can be found for FREE on YouTube: youtube.com/@NAIG2023/stre…

A former staffer waited years for the moment an unused costume from an axed PSA would show up on the governement's auction site. He never anticipated The Wise Donair had no face. politicstoday.news/alberta-today/… #ABleg #ABpoli #TheWiseDonair Enjoy the donair costume lore!

Glad that private payment in Canadian primary care is getting some attention. Also beyond proud that @AidanBodner's SFU Health Sciences undergrad honours project with Dr. Lindsay Hedden is mentioned, as one of the few sources of information on this pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35319445/

Canadian Medical Association The Globe and Mail I think sharing information and facts about private v. Public funding is a good idea. But let’s me clear, this is NOT a debate, there is a mountain of evidence showing PUBLIC FINANCING of healthcare ⬆️population health ⬆️health equity ⬇️⬇️costs policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/marc…

Let’s be clear: the CMA is purposefully ignoring the mountain of evidence that tells us private health care financing & delivery means worse outcomes and longer waits in the public system Those who benefit from privatization are doctors & corporations—not the public

Today we released the #OurCare Nova Scotia report✨ We brought together 34 members of the Nova Scotia public to spend ~30 hrs learning & deliberating about primary care Read their 25 recommendations for better primary care. Here's a Twitter summary🧵 ourcare.ca/prioritiespane…

Here directly from members of the public about what they want to see in a primary care system and their recommendations on how to get us there #OurCare youtube.com/watch?v=_FkWda… Ruth Lavergne MASS LBP MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions UofT Family Medicine NS Chapter of CFPC Dalhousie University

Read our client commentary in Saturday's Halifax Chronicle Herald -- from Drs Ruth Lavergne and Tara Kiran: Panel takes pulse of #healthcare, recommends improvements saltwire.com/atlantic-canad… #cdnpoli #medicare #primarycare #AtlanticCanada #NSpoli #NovaScotia

Dr Jessica Otte, CCFP, FCFP🇨🇦 - palliative/FP Ruth Lavergne Dr. Rita McCracken, MD, PhD (she/her) The College of Family Physicians of Canada Thanks so much for your support. Downloading system/culture problems to our trainees to fix is a medicine-wide phenomenon and a senseless approach. The most disempowered cannot change a system they have no value in. #MedEd