Colin Jackson
@ColJacksMed
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Dad. Husband. Orthopaedic Surgeon.
Joined April 2018
You told me to check out Pandora Avenue in Victoria before leaving Vancouver Island — I did. It’s absolute chaos. People are in deep crisis with mental health and addiction, and it’s heartbreaking. This is not compassion. This is failure. David Eby and the NDP's policies have
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👏 Congrats to Dr Brian Kwon on receiving UBC’s top research honour, the Jacob Biely Faculty Research Prize! His pioneering work in spinal cord injury research is driving innovation in science & clinical care. 🔗 https://t.co/xUQdxZ88Al
#UBCOrtho #MobilityForAll #StrongerTogether
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Frustrated surgeon comment. If ur a surgeon u have an obligation&responsibility to deal with complications related to ur surgery. If beyond expertise, u have obligation to find someone to help. Don’t try to shirk onto others. If u don’t want to do this, then get out of surgery😡
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This is chilling & imo undemocratic. The charter just made useless. How can people challenge a concern of government charter breach?This WAS a legitimate challenge in the interest of the public. Ruling went against them, but this ruling means gov. can now operate unchallenged!😱
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Telling someone with arthritis to stop exercising is like telling someone with high blood pressure to stop breathing. Move smarter, not less
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Ok. Why r specialists offices so hard to contact and communicate with? My MOA (>20 yrs experience) can’t get ahold of one specialist & other referring specialist can’t even tell her if referral was sent (for her daughter). This is sad. We need to do better for our pts.
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PSA- if u go to hospital in BC. Roommate may have weapons or drug paraphernalia. Security refuses to remove such items without pt consent. Nurses are scared, but are other pts not also at risk. Come on @bcndp. Keep nurses, staff & pts SAFE! Bizarro world.
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PSA. Surrey Hospital doesn’t have specialist pediatric ortho coverage. We r general ortho like every other hospital in FHA. It is waste of ur time & travel & overburdens us and hospital to travel from other catchments for kids injuries. Ortho care is no different!
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Vamos, @RafaelNadal! As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional. Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I
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No. I’m not a researcher… but there’s a role for folks like me. I’m not planning on running anything, though 🤣🤣 Btw… there is a backstory here. "We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put
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Exercise is a calculated risk; stillness is guaranteed decline.
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https://t.co/S2trLItArV When health authorities require them, that’s a problem. Employers need to work with and trust their employees. MDs can’t be the arbiter. I 99% write what my patient tells me. I have to trust them.
ctvnews.ca
Canadian doctors are calling for employers and schools not to require sick notes when it comes to short-term minor illnesses.
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Sad to learn of the passing of this legend in Canadian sports medicine. We wouldn't have the Vancouver Sun Run and so many other good things without him.
gothunderbirds.ca
The UBC Thunderbirds family is mourning the loss of Dr. Jack Taunton, a giant in the field of Canadian sport and exercise medicine, and member of UBC's Sports Hall of Fame. Taunton passed away this...
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Nearly all knees of asymptomatic adults showed abnormalities in at least one knee structure on MRI!!! They even found bucket handle tears ;-) Median age... 44 https://t.co/kU4nBvxzd3).
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
To identify abnormalities in asymptomatic sedentary individuals using 3.0 Tesla high-resolution MRI. The cohort comprised of 230 knees of 115 uninjured sedentary adults (51 males, 64 females; median...
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Emergency room doctors at Surrey Memorial Hospital have penned a scathing letter to the head of Fraser Health warning that "deteriorating conditions" are "unequivocally leading to substandard care." READ MORE: https://t.co/9BcI7ZIm4x
https://t.co/9BcI7ZIm4x
globalnews.ca
Doctors say they've made 'repeated and urgent attempts' to alert Fraser Health leadership of worsening conditions in the emergency department, but have received 'little response.'
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From last year. It hasn’t gotten any better. Super charged rates of immigration, foreign workers & international students are taking our infrastructure & social services to the breaking point.
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It’s happening again. Inpatient ortho elective surgeries being cancelled for overcrowding. 2 days notice and 5 patients suffering in pain being cancelled. My office scrambling to find short notice day surgery replacements. The system is broken. Our gov has failed us.
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Health-care system is 'broken,' Niagara woman says after dad dies suddenly in emergency room. CBCNews. Does anyone actually think this is fixable? Not with aging baby boomers & 1M new 🇨🇦s a year. It will only get worse. Impossible to keep up.
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