'We can write as much as we’d like, but until you hear the stories from the mouths of the people, it’s all just talk or numbers on a page.'
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Really looking forward to this evening with Carl Elliott, brilliant thinker, ethicist, and master of the perfect sentence.
#TheOccasionalHumanSacrifice #BuythisBook
Wednesday, May 15, 7 pm EDT
Weblink: cfe.torontomu.ca/events/why-doe…
Facebook: facebook.com/events/3632320…

'Dr. Bright told me that he would have expected things to be much different during the current administration, but 'this is a live fire test,' he said, 'and right now we are failing it.''

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Dr. Eberhard Renner is my boss. Working for him last 5+ years was transformative. Wanted to hear what we thought he might be missing...never wanted sycophants. That's leadership.

A huge loss. And an urgent message at a critical time.

André Picard

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A colleague once observed how surreal it is that doctors can prescribe opiates without a special license - but not so for the medications that treat opiate-use disorder, medications that cut the risk of death by half.

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Dr. Eberhard Renner is my boss. Working for him last 5+ years was transformative. Wanted to hear what we thought he might be missing...never wanted sycophants. That's leadership.

A huge loss. And an urgent message at a critical time.

André Picard

winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analys…

Our medically vulnerable child is transitioning back to school for 1 hr a day. Her Dr. recommends anyone working with her wear a mask. Not one EPA at her school will agree to this for 15 the minutes a day they are scheduled with her! Not one! 1/

nytimes.com/2023/04/11/opi…

Outdated guidelines putting lives at risk – Brandon Sun brandonsun.com/opinion/2024/0… via The Brandon Sun

Thanks for sharing your personal story, Deveryn Ross. While stats are critical to understanding disease, screening is not academic exercise. Those “numbers” are humans. #cdnpoli

Reuters' Mohammed Salem wins 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award reut.rs/4b3vOMx

The lack of understanding, even from people in 'health policy', of what constitutes a typical physician's day is ... something

We should always respect patient needs, and yes there are exceptions in the profession who violate the respect principle ...

Shawn F. Gremminger Most jobs can schedule, say, a twenty minute appointment and make it twenty minutes exactly. Doctors can’t do that. In my field, neurology, I could have two twenty minute follow ups in a row that are stable and doing well. Easy peasy, I’m on time.

Or I could discover that…

🙏🙏Dr. Jillian Horton❤️
And more on #whistleblowers in #research :
May 15, 2024 7pm Centre for Free Expression via Zoom:
Carl Elliott on his latest book
'The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No' 🔥🔥
Info at link: cfe.torontomu.ca/events

thestar.com/why-arent-we-c…

Last week. It was brief and it was rainy and damn if it doesn't still feel like home. And soon I hope I'll be able to share one of the amazing things that happened there. ❤️

#Toronto #weareallperfectlyfine

This week decided to listen to audiobooks while crossing things off my work to-do list.
This week is Dr. Jillian Horton We are All Perfectly Fine, which has been such a gift to listen to.

I missed this until now! Dr. Nancy Olivieri was a whistleblower. As thanks, she was smeared at every turn. Many say her kind of principled courage isn't possible. That prophecy quickly conditions apathy. She's a HERO. She deserves all this recognition & more.

André Picard

Rebroadcast today on CBC Radio's Ideas. Loved sharing this talk Wilfrid Laurier University in Nov as part of the Edna Staebler Award & getting it onto airwaves thx to the amazing Nahlah Ayed & team.

Healthcare remains a five-alarm fire. Nothing's changed.

André Picard

cbc.ca/radio/ideas/ji…

#Opioids responsible for 1 in 4 deaths in young adults aged 20-39: study. The #ToxicDrugCrisis has killed more than 40,000 people in Canada the past 8 years, by Kenyon Wallace thestar.com/news/canada/op… via @torontostar Tara Gomes

Covid-19 leaves its mark on the brain

In case you missed it, here is my piece in The Conversation U.S. about Covid and brain health with links to several major studies

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