Vikky Leung
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@SickkidsNews ER RN. College Faculty. @RNAO member. Views are mine. She/her.
Toronto, Ontario
Joined May 2011
NYG’s Dr. Kevin Wasko, Chief of Emergency Medicine and Program Medical Director, was interviewed on @globalnews about the rise in influenza cases and the pressure it has had on hospitals this flu season. Check out the full segment here:
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Dr. Iris Grofinkel knocks it out of the park with pragmatic solutions for improving the wait in Ontario healthcare. The core of the problem is "every dollar Ontario shifts to private medicine is a dollar not spent on public health-care". @DrGorfinkel
https://t.co/fwQaEsluGB
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Stay informed:
For the first time, nearly 2,000 Black women, girls & gender-diverse people share their lived experiences in Voices Unheard, a national call to action for health equity in Canada. Read the full report 👇 🔗 https://t.co/7swVb1SPbT
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Researchers from @UHN’s @SchroederInst find a potential blood marker to detect ulcerative colitis in patients with axial #spondyloarthritis, offering a less invasive way to diagnose IBD and improve early detection. 🔗 Read more: https://t.co/Kty2w7iuKi
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Our Back to School campaign has been extended to Nov 12th! All nursing students can join @RNAO for FREE at https://t.co/YGixKji9qS 🍂 🏫 Student Memberships also now renew automatically every year until your expected graduation date! #nursingstudents #BacktoSchool
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No Canadian ER docs say the system is perfect. ER is the underbelly. ER docs understand the brutal reality many face. But "broken" delegitimizes the millions attending ER annually with a reasonable experience and the many with excellent care. @CAEP_Docs
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My College has had to close dozens of programs and lay off so many valued, wonderful, staff. @fordnation simply refuses to support our post-secondary educational institutions properly. It's absolutely ridiculous how this man is destroying our province. #ForWhichPeople? #onpoli
Minister overruled: Ontario Premier Doug Ford shut down internal recommendations to raise tuition rates for college and university students. Confidential government documents, leaked to Global News, reveal that the Ministry of College and Universities was prepared to raise
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NEW: Today, I’m releasing a Surgeon General’s Advisory on the causal link between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk. Alcohol is the 3rd leading preventable cause of cancer in the U.S., contributing to about 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 cancer deaths each year.
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'Mind boggling' surge in walking pneumonia cases among teens and young adults, by @egpayne via @OttawaCitizen
ottawacitizen.com
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Health-care workers at @SickKidsNews are outraged by their employer’s recent announcement that it will continue its “pension holiday” rather than improve retirement benefits for its staff. Read our full joint media release: https://t.co/0SaEpHqLrD
#onhealth #onlab
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Toronto hospital system offers housing to homeless ER patients. @UHN project designed to improve lives of people experiencing #homelessness while reducing use of the strained public health care system, by @kellygrant1
https://t.co/rXAOwV7D3k via @globeandmail @drandrewb
theglobeandmail.com
University Health Network opens Dunn House on Thursday, a social housing project designed to improve the lives of people experiencing homelessness while reducing their use of the strained public...
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Today marks the opening of Canada’s first-hospital-led supportive housing. Dunn House will integrate social and health supports for 51 UHN patients who will have access to safe, permanent, and affordable housing.
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We really do care, it's why we're there. ❤️🩹🥹
Most patients don't realize their doctors and nurses think about them in the spaces between visits. While walking to the parking lot, driving home, brushing teeth… even before falling asleep. Our work is a part of us, and we really care about you. That's all.
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On #CanadaDay, RNAO urges everyone to reflect on colonization & its lasting impact on First Nations, Inuit & Métis Peoples. It's only by acknowledging harms & redressing wrongs that we can build a more just & inclusive Canada for all. #EveryChildMatters @INAIG_RNAO @DorisGrinspun
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My ER patient spends 4 days on an ER stretcher as there are no hospital beds to admit to and Ontario Conservatives rise the Legislature early, give themselves a long summer/fall break to have BBQs and go home and we waste $1Billion on early expanded alcohol sales. Priorities.
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May 1 is #DoctorsDay, also known as National Physicians' Day! Today, we’re celebrating Ontario’s dedicated doctors who support health and well being across the province. Thank you to #OntarioDoctors!
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