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Assistant Prof @SFU_FHS. I do work in primary care, health workforce, equity and virtual care.
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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦
5 months ago
We need to talk about the (wishful?) thinking driving Cdn health policy: That changing how & how much we pay MDs will fix the primary care crisis. New “blended” pymt models, 1st seen in BC, are making this claim.
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Will blended family physician payment models revive primary care in Canada?
Family physicians provide care at most medical visits in Canada.[1][1] However, the rates of burnout among family physicians (FPs) are high[2][2]-[4][3] and recent surveys suggest as many as 6.5 milli...
https://www.cfp.ca/content/71/6/377
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Pat Rich
9 months ago
Former CFPC CEO moderates panel on primary care at
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first in-person conference with panelists
@danyaalraza.com
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉
9 months ago
A tactic likely to raise revenues for
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govt systematically undermining its own fiscal capacity 1-Charge AHS inflated rates to lease its own hospitals back? 2-Deficits ensue, UCP says AHS can’t manage its budget 3-Privatize & sell off hospitals
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calgaryherald.com/news/braid-s...
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Braid: Sell off the hospitals? The UCP budget makes it possible
Danielle Smith's UCP government is taking ownership of all AHS buildings and land — and making it possible for the UCP to sell them.
https://calgaryherald.com/news/braid-sell-off-the-hospitals-the-ucp-budget-makes-it-possible
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉
9 months ago
Well, that was a complete clown show featuring Kevin O'Leary, the Tar Sands MAGA Man, Both Sides-ing Hanomansing, and a couple rational Canadians who mentioned international law Americans listening are probably like, wow, it really won't take much to invade that country
#CrossCountryFuckUp
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉
9 months ago
It's a grift! The public is being swindled by the Alberta government and private health care investors The news out of Alberta just keeps getting worse For-profits paid upwards of 2x as much for the same procedures performed in Alberta's public hospitals Public inquiry now.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉
9 months ago
I’ve been researching this topic for a decade We’ve had Canadian and international evidence that for-profit delivery is MORE COSTLY So we can confirm this (again) in Alberta For-profit costs more: investors must profit from our tax dollars
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Edward Xie
10 months ago
It's Canadian Doctors for Medicare's 1st Health Summit on March 8 in Toronto. Drs.
@danyaalraza.com
@lindsayhedden.bsky.social
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will discuss the primary care crisis + solutions. Register here
www.canadiandoctorsformedicare.ca/cdm_health_s...
#cdnhealth
#cdnpoli
#medsky
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Renee DiResta
10 months ago
Pathetic falling in line from a medical professional who clearly knew that the person he was interviewing for a critically important job was egregiously unqualified. This Senator bears responsibility for RFK Jr.'s impact on public health.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉
10 months ago
The Globe editorial board might be interested to know that Quebec has among some of the longest public waits for surgeries in the country — precisely the result of allowing dual practice where doctors spend their time doing private-pay for the wealthier
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Edward Xie
10 months ago
For an excellent breakdown of virtual primary care and how it's paid for in Canada, check out this article by Sheryl Spithoff, Ewan Affleck and
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www.cfp.ca/content/70/1...
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉
11 months ago
This won’t make the corporate chains operating on the margins of Medicare very happy. And that’s a good thing. Thank you Minister Holland
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This is big (great!) news and such a long time coming. We will probably see some big restructuring among shareholder-owned virtual care companies since presumably they won’t be able to charge patients privately for services their staff NPs provide.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉
11 months ago
For decades, medical associations have argued that doctors don't want salaried payment Turns out it's as popular as the research suggests A
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city put a family doctor on the payroll to address a shortage. Now, many physicians want in
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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A B.C. city put a family doctor on the payroll to address a shortage. Now, many physicians want in
Colwood’s mayor says the city is sorting through more than 100 submissions from doctors in Canada, the U.S. and Britain who are interested in the new clinic operating under a municipal funding model
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-a-bc-city-put-a-family-doctor-on-the-payroll-to-address-a-shortage-now/
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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦
12 months ago
RANT: How fee-based Private / For Profit Primary Health Care "Innovations" are wrecking 🇨🇦 healthcare for everyone else. Today a recruiter offered me "more information about" a job that would pay me ~450-500k/year to look after 400 patients. 1/11
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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦
12 months ago
New paper alert📢 Virtual primary care can be an effective tool to improve evidence-based care to folks with opioid use disorder. Thanks to our research team who got this paper published!
@lindsayhedden.bsky.social
(SS, SN, EG)
@jmirpub.bsky.social
www.jmir.org/2024/1/e54015
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Virtual Primary Care for People With Opioid Use Disorder: Scoping Review of Current Strategies, Benefits, and Challenges
Background: There is a pressing need to understand the implications of the rapid adoption of virtual primary care for people with opioid use disorder. Potential impacts, including disruptions to opiat...
https://www.jmir.org/2024/1/e54015
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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦
about 1 year ago
So glad to see our students /analysts presenting results from the research we have done together.
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findings of qualitative interviews with family physicians about virtual care for people with opioid use disorder during COVID
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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36167365/
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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦
about 1 year ago
This commentary with my 🌟 colleague
@lindsayhedden.bsky.social
summarizes what’s known about the “shortage” of family docs and the answers to finally turning the tide to get enough primary care access for all the people, spoiler: think public schools
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08404704231183175
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Dr. Jen Gunter
about 1 year ago
This needs to be watched by every Canadian.
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Armine Yalnizyan
about 1 year ago
Is this a deliberate way to destroy the publicly-funded publicly-delivered system?
montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
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Revealed: Quebec slashes thousands of health-care workers’ hours
Critics warn the move could tip an already fragile system into further turmoil.
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/revealed-quebec-slashes-thousands-of-health-care-workers-hours
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MadScientist
about 1 year ago
The Onion should buy Elsevier next
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Gregg Gonsalves
about 1 year ago
Thanks to Ben Mazer for calling out the sanewashing of RFK Jr. Emily Oster, Leana Wen & Ashish Jha should be ashamed; in a clear act of self-promotion to assert their relevance in this new era, they've decided that indulging this man is good for their own careers.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The Sanewashing of RFK Jr.
Let’s call a crank a crank.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/11/rfk-jr-hhs-sanewashing/680663/
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Kim McGrail
about 1 year ago
The lack of real structural reform in health care is definitely a long-standing issue.
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Kim McGrail
about 1 year ago
The Council of Europe released a "Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law" (
www.coe.int/en/web/conve...
). This acknowledges that AI can have positive and negative effects and at least starts to talk about redress. Worth a read, and I'd love comments.
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Full list - Treaty Office - www.coe.int
https://www.coe.int/en/web/conventions/full-list?module=treaty-detail&treatynum=225This
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Canadian Doctors For Medicare
about 1 year ago
Hi 👋 Bluesky! We are an evidence-based, physician-led organization that works to strengthen and preserve our publicly-funded health care system. We advocate for measures like pharmacare, robust primary care & public solutions that work, while outlining the pitfalls of privatization.
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Molly Jong-Fast
about 1 year ago
The fall of the Roman Empire but very stupid and everyone has phones.
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Dr Jessica Otte, 🇨🇦 MD, CCFP, FCFP 🩺🌍🌱
about 1 year ago
Anyone on
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doing a Canadian physical starter pack? I tried but the app keeps glitching
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@docmcohen.bsky.social
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Dr. Jen Gunter
about 1 year ago
Canada, you need to be aware this atrocity is coming your way if the Conservatives get a majority.
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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦
about 1 year ago
Am fed up with crap care given by “virtual walk in clinics”🤬 (Have a cough? Antibiotics for everyone!) For profit, episodic care is NOT A REASONABLE FIX TO PRIMARY CARE ACCESS ISSUES🤬 Nor does it make any sense for it to be a “employer perk” for people who already have a GP🤬 WE NEED SOME RULES
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