I’m very excited to be joining an international panel on tackling surgical backlogs at the CDM Health Policy Summit

The pandemic backlog exacerbated #waittimes What we can do right now to improve the public health system: cbchls.akamaized.net/delivery/news/…

Is COVID-19 associated with major adverse cardiovascular events after elective major noncardiac surgery? Our study in JAMA Network Open: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… Amol Verma Fahad Razak Allan Detsky MD PhD CM Chaim Bell Lauren Lapointe-Shaw Laura Rosella David Urbach Covid Long-Haulers Support Group Canada

Private delivery is only one way to do more surgeries (and may not be ideal for surgery other than cataracts??) Much can still be done within public system: why not increase capacity in our hospitals and centralize wait lists? thestar.com/opinion/contri… via @torontostar

The pointlessness of public payment for surgery in private-for-profit facilities in Ontario thestar.com/opinion/contri…

Somehow, often missed in the debate about “private” care is that surgery in not-for-profit Canadian hospitals is actually cheaper AND better than in private for-profit clinics cbc.ca/player/play/21…

Compared with Canadian hospitals, private for-profit surgical clinics: (1) are more expensive, (2) increase wait times, and (3) result in poorer quality of care. Remind me why we need them or want them? cbc.ca/news/health/pr…

Lots of ideas about how to fix the surgical backlog and wait times without breaking our struggling health system

Congratulations uOttawaGenSurg for blazing this trail and showing all of us how team-based models of care benefit patients and surgeons alike!

Turns out Ontario public hospitals are amazingly efficient, and provide outstanding value for money to the public. Why not fund our hospitals to perform additional surgeries like joint replacements, rather than overpay at out of hospital facilities? cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

Like so many Canadian surgeons, I am profoundly grateful for all that Dr. Robin McLeod taught me—about surgery, clinical epidemiology, and to constantly strive to make our health system better. I can think of no finer role model. We lost her too soon.

Our latest: why some people wait far too long for surgery in Canada while others wait very little (and the simple solution we could implement today) ⁦Ontario Health⁩ ⁦Canadian Medical Association⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦U of T Department of Surgery⁩ ⁦⁦Cdn General Surgeons⁩ journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Surgeons already know we can work together in teams to reduce surgical waits for our patients (and also create a more resilient work force in the process). Nothing is preventing us. #Leadership Cdn General Surgeons Canadian Medical Association Ontario Health cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

Investor-owned surgical facilities in Alberta are draining staff and resources from hospitals, increasing wait times and throwing public hospital operations into crisis. Is this really what we want in Ontario? edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new… via Edmonton Journal