Surrogate outcomes Screening versus prevention schools of thought And much more in this extremely readable @hildabast.bsky.social post absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/24/t... (Remember Nordic Cochrane aka Gøtzsche went off the rails a few years ago? This is the outcome)

Two new Cochrane reviews confirm efficacy of HPV vaccination www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...

Why the AMA’s actions are raising alarms canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/22/w... by @codeblackamerica.bsky.social, @nicktsergas.ca

'Life and death': Chief tells of trauma and bravery in grizzly attack on B.C. pupils

A must read for any assignment editor today: By Nicholas Hune-Brown in @thelocal.to thelocal.to/investigatin...

Forgot how strongly pro-vaccine Neil Young is until reminded in the 3hour @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social Radio 1 retrospective on his 80th birthday

Mining your health data to build a stronger Canada prich5757.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/m... @pathealth.bsky.social 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Canada has lost its measles elimination status...a sad milestone. Now is the time to double down on lowering barriers to routine childhood immunizations and ensuring Canadians have access to credible, science-based information. Link: tinyurl.com/c8nfxvk3

Mining your health data to build a stronger Canada Fractures, follicles and forceps should replace furs, forests and fossil fuels as the main building blocks for a stronger and economically prosperous Canada. prich5757.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/m...

Audit and feedback can improve the care provided by general practitioners in Canada prich5757.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/a...

The day after Dr. Emmanuelle Britton raised concerns about Quebec's Bill 106, changing the way doctors are paid, she was let go from her ministry position.

Wrote a thing canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...

@cmadocs.bsky.social had left the World Medical Association 7 years ago after alleging the WMA had plagiarized a speech by the CMA president.

A more sensible take in the CBC apple.news/Av1E3jdIHR6C... (with no byline)

Surprisingly rah-rah report in the lencanemab approval in @ottawacitizen.com from @egpayne.bsky.social ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n... It’s really not clear what its benefits are (apart from the $$$) eg see icer.org/news-insight... or @dereklowe.bsky.social www.science.org/content/blog...

AI and your health: Plain Talk Blog summarizing two sessions dealing with patient involvement in the fast-moving implementation of AI in healthcare prich5757.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/a...

"What AI is going to do is keep myself and more of my colleagues in practice longer," Dr. Chandi Chandrasena, Chief Medical Officer at @ontariomd.bsky.social speaking a public forum on AI in healthcare in Ottawa.

AI is the only thing that will be able to transform emergency care in Ontario hospitals: Bold contention from Dr. Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy, an emergency physician at @ottawahospital.on.ca speaking at a public forum on AI and healthcare in Ottawa.

"We can’t really believe we are taking care of a population of patients when we only see them once or twice a year. Health happens outside of visits” @drdannysands.bsky.social, a US primary care physician and pioneer of participatory medicine.

Katy Perry Releases New Single About Superiority Of Canadian Manufacturing

AI tools that provide health information to patients are only accurate 60%-80% of the time: Dr. Elizabeth Borycki, Director of the Global Laboratory for Digital Health Innovation at @uvic.ca speaking at #HealthWorkforceConnects

"Health care worker safety is a moral and strategic imperative when we look at costs to the system (and it) directly impacts patient care," Michael McMillan, President and CEO, Health Employers Association of British Columbia at #HealthWorkforceConnects

Balancing the imperative to provide care with the need to protect the health workforce is one of the key issues being addressed at a workshop at the Health Workforce Canada symposium this morning #HealthWorkforceConnects

No easy fix for Canada's health workforce challenges prich5757.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/n...

Results of this year's @cmadocs.bsky.social Physician Health Survey show things have improved since 2021 but "doctors are still struggling with excessive workloads, exhaustion and burnout — leading some to reduce clinical hours or consider leaving practice altogether." www.cma.ca/latest-stori...

@cmadocs.bsky.social has rejoined @medwma.bsky.social seven years after quitting the association following allegations the WMA plagiarized a CMA speech. The decision was made at the recently completed WMA General Assembly in Porto.

Fascinating little exhibit if you are interested in medieval Flemish art. At the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto

Lessons on dying well from the father of palliative care. The best way to honour Dr. Balfour Mount’s legacy is by making palliative care available to all Canadians, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

At @cape-acme.bsky.social we're sometimes asked, Why don't doctors stay in their lane? The answer: health is about more than health care. Planetary health is public health, which is why the first National Day of Action on Planetary Health is happening Oct. 6. healthydebate.ca/2025/10/topi...

I need to say a few words about Darren. He was, in many ways, the doctor all doctors needed to be. Compassionate, caring, an advocate and a poet. We were all privliged to have him in our world. And we are poorer for his departure from it. Wherever you are, I hope there are paddles and pedals.

Essential that physicians don't lose their capacity for critical thinking when they work in an AI-enhanced environment: @arjalali.bsky.social speaking at @ontariomd.bsky.social conference #

In opening remarks at second day of @ontariomd.bsky.social conference, @ontariosdoctors.bsky.social CEO Kimberly Moran talks about good news from recent arbitration award but no comment on recently announced government plans to expand scope of practice for optometrists, pharmacists and others

@ontariomd.bsky.social conference: Unusual breakfast, usual debate prich5757.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/o...

"“It is way, way past time that we built a health system where primary care is the foundation” @janephilpott.bsky.social speaking at #dhc2025 conference from @ontariomd.bsky.social "The sad reality is not everybody in Ontario has access to primary care"

"Putting patients before paperwork is the true value of technology" @ontariomedical.bsky.social president Dr. Zainab Abdurrahman #dhc2025

The truth about smartwatches? Life is better without a hectoring zealot on your wrist | Zoe Williams

@cmadocs.bsky.social - and a long list of other health leaders in Canada including @caulfieldtim.bsky.social making latest statement against health misinformation online www.cma.ca/about-us/wha...

In Canadian parks pigeons are the problem. In Porto it appears to be peacocks.

FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...

With all invest in the development, training, and deployment now, the big question I think is who is going to pay for it in the end? It’s a real concern for healthcare, with already staggering prices for treatments. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-hea...

Oh my. Dr. @angierasmussen.bsky.social looks into the BC ostrich story, with devastating effect: Follow the Bird Flu Ostrich Antibody Money open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

Dr. Brian Day - former @cmadocs.bsky.social president and strong advocate for hybrid (private-public) care in the spotlight again. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Naught but a leap to the left And thanne a clockwyse tread; Put thyne handes on thyne hippes, And be thy knees yn-gatheréd: Lo, it ys the pelvique thruste That maketh mirthe down to rayne - Let us do the Tyme Warpe agayne!

Does A.I. support of physicians lead to their deskilling? A new report of gastroenterologists doing colonoscopy for polyp detection, with and without A.I., raises the possibility www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Starting Sept. 1, B.C.’s Medical Services Plan is capping all online group medical visits to just 20 patients, to “ensure there can still be a one-on-one interaction between each patient and physician,” the Health Ministry told The Tyee.

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

Data on emergency room closures "is far worse" than reality and you should be "terrified" with what is going on @drsarahgiles.bsky.social - president-elect of @srpcanada.bsky.social speaking during recent Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH) webinar

@picardonhealth.bsky.social is so influential in Canada that there is a whole Zoom webinar on right now aimed at specifically challenging his recent statement that many rural emergency rooms should be closed as they often do not offer first-rate care