Erica Shenfeld

Family medicine resident in Toronto. Finally joined the twitterverse to follow #covidnews, stayed for the cats. Interested in #healthequity #SDOH. | She/Her

[Erica Shenfeld @EricaShenfeld]

@AirCanada if you're going to make me stay on hold for 2.5hrs (and counting!) at least don't make me listen to Shawn Mendes. Would give anything for a call back option...

[Erica Shenfeld @EricaShenfeld]

The formula aisle at my local Walmart. Parenting seems to be an exercise in navigating scarcity... scrambling to find formula, medicine, childcare. These feel like things Canada should have figured out by 2023...

[David Fisman @DFisman]

Petition calling on @jyduclos to do more to protect public healthcare in Canada. Please sign and retweet

https://t.co/BBeANv6T2m

[David Fisman @DFisman]

The McKinsey/Shoppers/Loblaws nexus in privatization of primary care in Ontario. It’s in plain sight, if anyone cares to report on it.

H/t @JordanMRoberts

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

AWESOME: Ontario’s 5 largest healthcare unions have joined forces to warn the public that the Ontario government is intentionally manufacturing our current massive healthcare crisis…to justify privatization.

Who else agrees with them? ✋🏾

[Ziyad Al-Aly, MD @zalaly]

Here is the latest from our team in @NatureMedicine

Should you protect yourself from Covid-19 reinfection

Yes!

Reinfection is not benign; it is best to avoid it

by @Bcbowe @Biostayan @zalaly

A thread 🧵

https://t.co/RVENVKRucU

[Tara Kiran @tara_kiran]

This headline is disappointing.

Our research has shown repeatedly that the vast majority of family doc offices have been open to in-person visits through the pandemic

Our team has been seeing +++ people with respiratory illness these last few weeks.

https://t.co/HRhlJSR3zC

[Stuart Buck @stuartbuck1]

I've been seeing this story a lot on Twitter today: https://t.co/bSGlVcAwuO

Headline: Florida Surgeon General shows that there is an "84% increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related death among males 18-39 years old within 28 days following mRNA vaccination"

[Erica Shenfeld @EricaShenfeld]

These previous generations paved the way, & today it is much easier for me as a Jewish female doctor. Yet we have a long way to go to make medicine more inclusive of under-represented groups, esp Black and Indigenous folks. We need to continue the work others started long ago.3/3

[Erica Shenfeld @EricaShenfeld]

My great grandfather, Dr. Podnos, graduated from UofT Faculty of Medicine, exactly 100 years before I did (the original class of 2T0!). He initially practiced in the US b/c he couldn't find work in Canada as a Jewish doctor, though he later returned 1/

[Ritika Goel @RitikaGoelTO]

So glad to finally see an acknowledgement and apology for the shameful and hateful historic "Jewish quotas" at @uoftmedicine which discriminated against Jewish applicants in the 1920s-60s.
https://t.co/nwS7SrV4L9

[Erica Shenfeld @EricaShenfeld]

The family name was changed at some point to "Parker" which sounded less Jewish. His daughter, Dr. Margret Parker, went on to graduate from UofT Faculty of Dentistry, a feat at the time given she was only one of 2 women in her class
2/

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Researchers who study Type 2 diabetes have reached a stark conclusion: There is no device or drug powerful enough to counter the effects of poverty, pollution, stress, a broken food system, cities that aren't walkable, and inequitable access to healthcare. https://t.co/aQUve1pQW1

[Tara Kiran @tara_kiran]

*NEW* Our latest study @JAMANetworkOpen @sheryl_spithoff found that people on methadone treatment were 3x less likely to get a new patient appointment with a family doctor compared to people with diabetes

Access to primary care is far from equitable 🧵

https://t.co/Umfaon7TQF

[Erica Shenfeld @EricaShenfeld]

Among my cohort of fam med residents, few are planning to pursue comprehensive primary care. We badly need to fix our system or healthcare access for Ontarians will continue to worsen.

[Tara Kiran @tara_kiran]

Our study published this week @AnnFamMed @RickGlazier1 @DrMichaelGreen1 found that 3% of family doctors in Ontario stopped work in the first 6 mo of the pandemic, twice what would be based on previous trends

These findings have important implications 🧵
https://t.co/fv5PrTw1T0

[Subha Airan-Javia MD FAMIA (she/her) @subhaairan]

What % of #EHR text is directly duplicated from a prior note?

6 yrs
100+ mil notes
33 B words
192 B characters

Duplicated text ⬆️ from 33% in 2015 to 54% in 2020

Blocking copy forward is not the answer. We must reimagine #documentation

https://t.co/V9HvP49B42

[Nikki Bozinoff @NikkiBozinoff]

4/Phone visits, which, IMO helped to retain people in treatment, also won’t be fully reimbursed. For my patients with no access to video/data, phone visits allowed flexibility and ⬇️ #noshows.

[Nikki Bozinoff @NikkiBozinoff]

1/ As if the #opioid crisis and the pending #ONhealth ED collapse weren’t enough, @OntariosDoctors section on Addiction Medicine warning OAT clinics across Ontario could see service disruptions as of Dec 1, 2022 (ironically #internationalaids day)

[Erica Shenfeld @EricaShenfeld]

@MichalStein2 Except the occasional e coli warning definitely gives less cozy vibes

[linda haslett @lindahaslett]

Just a reminder that @fordnation gave his MPPs a raise of 16.6%. They now earn anywhere from $130,000-$165,000, enhanced benefits, $2300 per month for a housing allowance because it is so expensive to live in Ontario. #ODSP recipients receive $1169 to live in the same province.

[Ahmed Ali @DrAhmednurAli]

It will forever be incomprehensible to me how society convinced anyone that being disabled should mean living in poverty, when a disability can occur at any time to anyone.