Aruna Dhara
@arunadhara
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Canadian family doc| Equity| Mom| Writer of Angry Essays| she/her. Tweets mine alone
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Joined April 2014
This was a long time coming. Pre-COVID in fact. But it's perhaps more important to say today. Medicine must reject notions of "diversity" that uphold a racist status quo. I'm looking at us South Asians Thanks @bmj_latest!!!
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The hard truth is that while all physicians from ethnic minorities may experience discrimination, it doesn’t always look the same, says Arundhati Dhara Medicine has been promoting equity and divers...
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My latest for @CBCNS on how docs get paid. Bottom line? We need to decide together what good primary care looks like so we know what models might work. Thanks @infomorning for the chance to speak with you this morning. #healthcare #nspoli
Opinion: How we pay doctors affects everything from patient care to filling those vacancies https://t.co/Pk0mHhp2fB
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"language usually paired with photos of women, often attractive white women, spinning in fields or on the beach with their hands in the air" including (but not limited to Soul doula Authentic self Belief infusion I feel seen. Thank you @Suzanne_Rent
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Someone recently suggested to me that ideas about holistic care and healing were flaky. So I spoke about biomedicine’s undermining of relational ontologies. epistemic racism and reductionism—at which point the tone of the conversation seemed to shift.
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"Because we know that #relationships built over time matter, we should encourage relationship-based #medicine" Such an important piece by @arunadhara on prioritizing #primarycare in #NovaScotia @CBCNS
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Nova Scotia's next government needs to do more than just hire more family doctors; it needs to pay them in a way that allows them to spend time developing a doctor-patient relationship.
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Hey Twitterverse - I had the great privilege of sharing some thoughts about the value of primary care and what it might look like for different parts of the community. Bottom line: invest in relationships because they matter. https://t.co/nVK2PgiwVT
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Nova Scotia's next government needs to do more than just hire more family doctors; it needs to pay them in a way that allows them to spend time developing a doctor-patient relationship.
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I have...questions about what educators are teaching medical students re: their duty to provide care, even when they fundamentally disagree with the choices their patients make. Hot tip: the answer isn't this.
I don’t yet have the words to articulate how disappointed I am that the medical school I attend believes that ANY partnership with a crisis pregnancy centre is appropriate. Our advocacy is not over but I believe our relative silence will be.
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Are you a man aged 15-24 who identifies as Muslim and has experienced self-harm or a suicide attempt? You're eligible to participate in a 60 min interview about your experiences for a @CAMHResearch and @SickKids research study. For more info, contact zakia.hussain@camh.ca
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Affordable housing defined by CMHC itself costs not more than 30% of a household’s gross income, not 30% of the median income in the area. #housingforall #NSpoli #endpoverty
https://t.co/3OMwALKuLw
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/CNW/ - Every Canadian deserves a safe and affordable place to call home. Thanks to investments made by the Government of Canada, residents of Halifax will...
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#ISupportDrGoel She is an inspiration - challenging our profession to do better and stand by our highest ideals. I am a better physician because of her work.
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.@rgay with some excellent parental ingenuity. This is 100% a thing my parents have done.
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This is colonized structural violence. In health care it is the water we swim in, but we need to push back against it every chance we get. Racism doesn't need racists. It just needs us to keep swimming without seeing.
Privilege is being able to make social media content about how you cope with motherhood (i.e, taking “Mummy moments” or drinking wine) and not fearing repercussions from child services as an Indigenous family
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Everyone who works in a hospital should reflect on this thread. Folks do the best with what they have, and sometimes we're the best choice in a bad system. I confess to frustration - but that should be directed at the system that brought her here.
“Here most days” We don’t have a moral leg to stand on criticizing this persons emergency service use, until this person no longer faces life-threatening health emergencies “most days” 4/
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This exactly. This is not a time to congratulate ourselves on supporting Noroh. Let's examine the deeply unjust system that put her in this position. But FWIW, I was also glad she's safe(r) for now.
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Whatever you think about whether any jurisdiction 'should shut down', @NishaOttawa is right: education is a human right.
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Since the pandemic, violence against women and girls has intensified. This year more than ever, let's keep the conversation around gender-based violence going. https://t.co/vdPOySrb4Q
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The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women aims to create awareness of the fact that violence against women is a human rights violation that impedes progress in many areas,...
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