Morning off clinic coincided with the kick-off of the International Street Medicine Symposium here in T.O. Reminded it is just as much about who you are and how you love, as it is what you do. Thanks for a great Wednesday!

Healthcare is Ontario's election issue. Heart attacks in chairs. People deteriorating or dying on EMS stretchers. Ontario - these are your families. Your ERs are beyond capacity. You decide if this is what you want, if this government over 7 years has succeeded or not.

As an emergency physician, I can confidently say that the PTSD and horrors witnessed by paramedics and first responders is dramatically more difficult to process than what we see in the ED. The highest respect to my first responder colleagues.

The best news EVER

Ontario has announced $1.8 billion over 4 years to connect every person in Ontario to a family physician & primary care team! Our new graduates will be thrilled to work in teams, & we're hopeful this will help close the gap of 2.5M people in Ontario who need a family doctor. 1/2

Addictions medicine community: looking for your favourite resources/guides/toolkits/papers on developing a hospital addiction medicine consult service (we're more rural, but anything helps!).

Good news. Very much hoping Belleville's HART Hub app is selected in the next round - we are in desperate need.

Every piece that Sarah writes needs to be read. Period. But this one really hits.

Nobody says it better than Michelle. Watch this – and then make sure you’re ready to vote tomorrow: https://t.co/NKXRGNgbZX

Premier Ford really had it out for “little Johnny” that needs the ER for his knee injury, laceration and maybe a fracture so we talked it out on the phone today. My mock call with ⁦@fordnation⁩

I am stoked to share this with you all. Book out in April

Welcome to Dunn House — a prescription for change that has been years in the making. Housing is health. And this is the power of partnership. 51 UHN patients with no fixed address comprised over 4,000 emergency department visits in the past year. This is driven by the

🚨New pub alert @SpringerNature 🚨 Opioid-related harms are an urgent health crisis in countries like Can & Aus. Our new study reveals that primary care could play a crucial role in treating #Opioids use disorder (OUD), but significant challenges remain.

Not surprising. 73% of Cdns open to major reform of health systems. Let’s do what hasn’t been done in Canada. Let’s design/implement a system of universal access to primary care - a health home for every neighbourhood. Other countries do this. We can too.

In honor of our beloved Matthew Nelms, we will be launching the Matthew Nelms Foundation. The foundation will be dedicated to financially supporting young adults suffering from cancer. https://t.co/Evd5vAqf8m

Emerg nurses single-handedly carried me through my overnight call last night: their knowledge is next level, their emotional support means the world as I fumble my way through new tasks, and their donut supply is >>>.

Moving to my hometown for residency: parents watching my soccer games, watching the Bachelorette with Mom, celebrating my HS friends' toddlers' birthdays, Dad cutting my grass just because, . The little things I have missed for so many years.❤️

On my last ED shift I was struck by the complexity of each patient & I realized this complexity is growing exponentially. One of the biggest policy level misses is our failure to acknowledge exponential increase in patient complexity. Instead we fund & think of HC as linear

The Canadian women kept focused from all the noise and pulled off the W. One game at a time.❤️

Who in my network is heading to @FamilyMedForum in Van in Nov?😍

The bond you make with your co-residents in the first month of PGY1 >>>>