the dietary supplement industry continues to thrive despite being implicated in lies, deceit, and patient harm
a medical toxicologist's rant (and warning) about dietary supplements:
@Lorian_H This one is easy- College reports # docs registered that COULD work in AB. Includes those who have left to other provinces but are keeping a foot in the door in AB (I know several). AMA is attempting to count number actually working in AB. Tough to actually count.
🧵Battling Antivax Disinfo🧵
Vaccination did NOT increase cancer deaths.
Here I took the 6 deadliest cancers (all 5 survival rates under 50%) in a highly vaccinated population (25-54), and we can see ZERO evidence of vaccine-related cancer deaths, all the way to May 2024.
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Our refugee health clinic in #YYC has had to start a gofundme campaign to stay open in #Alberta despite billions in budget surplus and highest immigration levels ever.
It’s one of the Gold standard clinics in 🇨🇦, operating for >20yrs, cared for many…
#abpoli#ableg#abhealth
Fact Checkup Issue 2 covers:
- Chartered surgical facilities and staff shortages
- Interdisciplinary health teams
- Q3 CPSA data
- Dollars spent on information systems
- Physician Comprehensive Care Model
- Immunization supply
https://t.co/cAngHaHIcl
@PopAlberta@_AUPE_ There were 2 major AHS IT outages this week, apparently unrelated, that delayed care and ground work to a halt in much of the province.
I have no insight into IT staffing, but I know the hiring freeze has decimated much of our local south zone support staff.
Hey Calgarians: are you watching what's happening in EDM hospitals, scratching your head, but being thankful it isn't happening to you?
Well, don't get comfy! The GOVT has decided NOT TO ACT and is allowing the FM Hospitalist funding model to wither and die
why you should care:/1
This is pretty crazy. Obviously it is not supposed to work this way. A short thread...
AB healthcare is organized (or was) along a continuum.
There was an expectation that people would be able to access general healthcare locally. We call that primary care. /1
I missed this announcement but if our Minister said that AHS was responsible for recruiting ER docs for rural hospitals, well, she is largely wrong.
Let me explain this a bit as I suspect many others don't understand this distinction either. /1
Hey Alberta… when we’re done talking about chemtrails (and the world is done laughing at us) could we talk about our imploding health care system?
We desperately need Informed Reform
( https://t.co/USQqcZ91e5 )
Govt is NOT listening to your physicians
@mantalicious@GlobalEdmonton This perspective is about right. Speaking from the inside, AHS priorities since the UCP was elected have been in weirdly specific silos based on the govt project of the moment. They have always lacked an overall balanced perspective on maintaining good health care in all forms.
Remember a few years ago when the UCP government decided that wait time for orthopedic surgeries was going to be THE health indicator they’d focus on? Pull the threads from there and you end up here. Gov’t funding and priorities dictate exactly how AHS is allowed to spend money.
Frustrated Rocky Mountain House doctors say interference by Alberta Health Services has driven the town's only general surgeon to leave — and it's not the first time it's happened: “This is our third surgeon now to leave for the exact same reasons."
https://t.co/UtP2lQwfOc
@TheBreakdownAB For all the AHS bashing this government likes to do, its top positon is directly under the minister of health. It’s support infrastructure is crumbling, but as a direct result of government mandated cuts and hiring freezes. Create the problem then use it as an excuse.