Steve Flindall
@flindall_steve
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Emerg Doc in the GTA. I like motorcycles and hockey. Love my wife and kids. Bad knee and, possibly, a bad attitude. Opinions expressed are my own.
York Region, Ontario
Joined April 2020
a quaternary care center and gets almost immediate surgery. Patient not only survives but returns to baseline function. Family lets us know how well he is doing and expresses extreme gratitude. Don't tell me Ontario healthcare is broken.
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Shared with permission: 4 yo brought by EMS found unresponsive, shocky and hypothermic. Patient met at the EMS bay and examined immediately. Within 40 minutes patient is diagnosed with intracranial hemorrhage, intubated and out the door en route to definitive care at . /2
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The kid on the Amazon commercial that stares at the woman after she tells him he is having crust on his bread again is an acting genius.
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If you want to see how many horrible people are on this platform, just make a Tweet saying something positive.
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Matt Strauss’ statement is extremely dangerous. This sort of hyperbole does nothing other to make people reluctant to seek the care they need when they need it. We need our elected officials to do better than this. Especially those with medical training.
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RT @awkwardgoogle: Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train on a xylophone is proof why every school needs a fully funded music program..
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So, again and again I see accounts threatening hanging toward HCWs on this platform. Every time, X’s response is, “That’s cool. No violation found.” What a cesspool.
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This is what happens when you have politicians ignoring experts. @fordnation and @SylviaJonesMPP said their “common sense approach” was better informed than front line workers. The result: death and suffering for those who cannot speak for themselves.
288% increase in overdose deaths in one month since Ford closed safe consumption sites. As predicted. Tragic and preventable.
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RT @ross_prager: (0/5) Here are five of the commonest cognitive traps in medicine (and forcing strategies to avoid each)👇 .
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Perhaps the US ambassador to Canada would like to tell us again that vacationing in America is totally cool.
The NYPD and ICE 'mistakenly' arrest a Chilean woman on vacation in New York City, leaving her 12-year-old daughter (who was with her) on the street alone.
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This should not be happening in a province with a functional public health system. Then again, we live in Ontario.
Six infants born with congenital measles in Ontario from unvaccinated mothers
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And so begins the end….
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2024 Foreword INDIES Winners in Health (Adult Nonfiction) — Foreword Reviews
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These are the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the cherries on top a metaphorical ice cream sundae of indie books. The Health winners of the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.
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I love this pictorial! Especially, the part about IV antibiotics not being “stronger” than oral. People, including many MDs seem to believe that IV=stronger. I always say the strongest antibiotic is the correct antibiotic, whatever form that may take.
🆕Talking to patients about #Antibiotics 🆕. Patient handout: When Are Oral Antibiotics the Right Choice? 👉🏼See also our TI Letter 155: #PatientEducation #MedEd #prescribing
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Orwell is rolling over in his grave. This is right out of “1984”.
An executive order by Donald Trump would install political appointees at the apex of the scientific process, with a mandate to edit or discard science that did not meet the administration’s criteria and potentially discipline scientists, critics warn.
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If it’s quicker than an EM physician’s 10 minute assessment, this should be groundbreaking. EM physicians’ clinical judgement outperform all current guidelines and tests. This impacts time-to-treatment, which is the ultimate goal.
Canadian researchers develop test they say can help diagnose life-threatening sepsis
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Dear Americans who still value science and research:.Come to Canada. We won’t deport you without due process for investigating topics the Prime Minister doesn’t approve of. Love, Canada.
Just read through the restoring gold standard science executive order. This country is absolutely cooked. Absolutely fucked. I can not believe we are going down this road. What a fucking horror show. Now we're going to have trump loyalist appointees, not scientist, deciding.
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