Kerstin de Wit
@kerstindewit
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Thrombosis and Emergency physician. Researcher.
Kingston, Ontario
Joined October 2011
🚨 Emergency Medicine researchers: Submit your abstract for #ICEM2025 in Montreal, May 24-28, 2025! 🗓️ Deadline: Dec 1, 2024 📢 Categories: Research, Education, & QIPS 💡 Notification: Feb 20, 2025 Learn more & submit 🔗 https://t.co/xBCHnTxGuP
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"I feel used and abused. Powerless. Stuck in a system that offers us no support and more importantly no resources to help our patients." - Emergency Physician
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"It is morally distressing to watch elderly patients dropped off at the emergency room, with nowhere else to go, languish in our corridors, end up sicker than when they arrived as they wait for placement, and in some cases die from neglect." - Emergency Physician
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Here are a few examples. The strength of the language used is striking. "I feel awful about trying to provide good care for my patients in the hallway, and constantly feel like I can’t do a good job anymore and it makes me feel like a terrible doctor." - Emergency Physician
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The most difficult paper I have written. Canadian emergency physicians experienced loss of joy, moral injury and exhaustion. The only solution they found was to leave the profession.
Emergency physicians are the most flexible, adaptable, resilient professionals I know. The qualitative comments in this article, while not surprising, are heartbreaking evidence of a remarkable group being pushed well past a breaking point. https://t.co/BtaJcC1a1Y
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Which older patients after a fall can safely forgo a CT Head? The Falls Decision Tool helps us in this sometimes difficult decision on the EM Cases Journal Club by @EMRoMo
https://t.co/wywJU1AiUR
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@kerstindewit @CVarnerEmerg @SMcLeod_SREMI @MHJudyMorris @EMO_Daddy
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Dakota Gustafson presents an important new initiative to standardize pre-analytical methods in extracellular vesicle research #ISTH2024 @QueensUHealth @Qemerg
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Thanks to our president @CAEP_Docs , Dr. Michael Howlett for laying out the key issues associated with emergency department wait times.
macleans.ca
In December, Ontario patients waited in ERs for an average of nearly 22 hours before being admitted to the hospital
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Emergency physician burnout, adverse mental health and loss to the profession.
Hot off the Press: A Longitudinal Survey on Canadian Emergency Physician Burnout https://t.co/keM86g3lBz
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Emergency Medicine burnout rates are still terrifyingly high: https://t.co/qYORxJRE8y in this new paper led by @kerstindewit It's time for structural change.
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Grateful to the Hematology Program of @queensu for supporting me in reaching my full potential during training.
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Grateful to be working in @Qemerg with such strong researchers like @StevenCBrooks, an amazing colleague and friend. Congratulations @StevenCBrooks.
Congratulations to Dr. Steven Brooks on his promotion to Professor effective July 1, 2023. The entire EM family is proud of your achievements! Congratulations Professor Brooks! @StevenCBrooks @dwmessenger @QueensUHealth @queensuResearch @KingstonHSC
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Congratulations to SREMI scientist Dr. Keerat Grewal (@kee_gre) and her team for winning a @CIHR_IRSC Project Grant! this work will improve access to care for the many Ontarians diagnosed with cancer in the emergency department every year.
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Congratulations to Dr. @StevenCBrooks who is the honourable recipient of the 2023 @CIHR_ICRH Mid-Career Lecturer Award in Emergency Medicine. Learn about his achievements: https://t.co/dUz5DGJbYa
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Congratulations @modeRNemerg. A research star.
@modeRNemerg defends his PhD ‘Prognosis of Cardiac Arrest in Patients Receiving Home Care’. Many proud people in attendance! @kerstindewit @ProfBEEM @LaurenGriff1 @faridftn @SAEMEBM @BDG_Research @HEI_mcmaster @interRAI_Canada
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So a new thing happened. A paper we submitted got rejected by a journal after automated plagiarism detection. It turned out two students in India had plagiarised our preprint and then published online reports. So we've been accused of copying them. Fun.
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Congratulations to Dr. @james_paulad from @QueensuDOM who has been recognized by @Daily_Experts as a "World Expert" in Von Willebrand Disease. Expertscape's PubMed-based algorithms placed Dr. James in the top 0.1% of scholars writing about this disorder:
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Are you fed up of complex PE testing algorithms? We designed a safe and simple way to test for PE in the emergency department: Adjust-Unlikely.
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Appel de candidatures pour le Prix ISCR des IRSC–ACMU 2023 de conférencier en milieu de carrière en médecine d’urgence! La date limite a été reportée au 4 décembre 2022. https://t.co/6yKmZeWuLz
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Call for Nominations for the 2023 CIHR-ICRH/CAEP Mid-Career Lecturer Award in Emergency Medicine! Deadline extended to December 4, 2022. https://t.co/JcYMBODPl3
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