Diaspora WhatsApp groups are 🔥 tonight…

So this week my brave 8 yo did so well in the school talent show, and my brilliant mentee passed his Royal College exam, and yes it is the SAME emotion of happy pride, and I am the luckiest person to have such lovely young people in my life. Congrats, Dr. K! (And little Z!) 🤗

Funniest/realest read of the day: this excerpt from the CIA's 1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual. Don't bother with leadership training - just make sure you're not doing any of this 😆 TY to the colleague who sent it, and knew it would make laugh (and cry)!

The replies make me want to 🤮

Brilliant allergist (and wonderful friend) Samira Jeimy talking about food allergies. A huge medical and social impact on kids & carers - but oral immunotherapy can be disease modifying (and life changing!)

Fellow middle aged lady, Jennifer Lloyd, PhD! 😄 I have first aid kits and #naloxone kits in my car and at home. We can normalize having & knowing how to use, them as part of our civic duty to each other. Here's how Ontarians can get free kits + easy instructions: ontario.ca/page/get-nalox…

This is EXCELLENT advice from Aaron Goodman - “Papa Heme”. Overordering causes confusion at best, harm at worst. PGY1s / R1s / Interns, this website will help you "lab wisely": labwisely.ca

Difficult and important paper to read. Kerstin de Wit & colleagues report staggering levels of burnout in 🇨🇦 EM docs. "Broken health care system, lack of societal support, systemic workplace challenges." Doctors are drowning, and leaving. annemergmed.com/article/S0196-…

Clinicians and laboratorians - in hospital and community settings - came together to make care more patient centred, more evidence based, more equitable. This is just the first step! Many more to come, with support from Ontario Health's Ontario Laboratory Medicine Program.

Last minute review of my academic half day presentation for MacEmergFRCPC tomorrow morning. First *in person* residency lecture since April 2020! First Day of School vibes...

I've had so many fun experiences at past Toronto Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) - meeting Jhumpa Lahiri, embarrassingly fangirling Gordon korman, and learning how to draw narwhals with my kids & Ben Clanton. Tickets for grownup & kid friendly events are available! festivalofauthors.ca/festival-2024-…

Today my 5 yo asked me to play "the Alphabet Song" in the car. He meant "Hot To Go!" by Chappell Roan. ❤️My guy is working on *actual* literacy, but he's all over social and cultural literacy 😃