James Liu

Emergency Physician. Settler. he/him. Social Emergency Medicine | Health Equity | System Change | #SocialEM RT≠endorsement

[Sahil Gupta @bysahilgupta]

Come find your village at #CAEP24. A Social Emergency Medicine meet and greet/social - TCU -West Room (28) 1045-1215 today. Come meet people working to improve homelessness care, substance use care, Indigenous care, and anti-oppressive efforts in our EDs.

[Marcella Jones @jonesmcella]

@bysahilgupta If you aren't able to make today's networking session, you can sign up for the CAEP #healthequity list here if you are interested in working on Social Emergency Medicine in Canada/Turtle Island #socialEM @James_Liu99
@bysahilgupta @DrJBryan @jenniferhulme

[James Liu @James_Liu99]

Accessible copy https://t.co/r3QjArlG6t

[James Liu @James_Liu99]

Transabdominal pelvic PoCUS should be considered a sensitive examination and approached with trauma and violence informed principles in order to avoid provoking distress #SocialEM #PoCUS https://t.co/HB7iYpz2YI

[Patrick McLane @Pat_McLanePhD]

New web resources on research into equity in emergency care. https://t.co/MAHaKHSiUT

[André Picard @picardonhealth]

"André Pierre Picard. For his dedication to advancing public health understanding and practices in Canada as a leading health journalist and bestselling author."
I'm honoured and humbled to be included in the list of new appointees to the #OrderOfCanada. https://t.co/91ZzLqj9xE

[James Liu @James_Liu99]

Data show that EDs don’t meet the needs of Indigenous patients as well. We examines how emergency physicians could critically examine our own clinical processes to improve our ability to mitigate health care disparities in the ED. #SocialEM #healthequity https://t.co/74yPYLkFBL

[AEM Journal @AcademicEmerMed]

This systematic review from Dr. Leeies identifies best practices, potential benefits and harms of enhanced sociodemographic variable collection as a routine part of ED visits with specific recommendations for EM health systems.
#EM #AEM #SocialEM
Read @ https://t.co/qvBPDRwdIH

[AEM Journal @AcademicEmerMed]

These legal considerations should inform the enhanced collection of sociodemographics in EDs to promote #equity while protecting #patients.
#AEM #EM #SocialEM
Read @ https://t.co/D36EiXK0sF

[James Liu @James_Liu99]

“An algorithm elevates the care of a novice but degrades the care of an expert.” Reuben Strayer @emupdates

The importance of algorithms in #MedEd can therefore not be understated. It quickly increases safety in novices and infrequent providers.

Experts can use judgement.

[James Liu @James_Liu99]

Most of the social emergency medicine presentations to the ED are likely connected to two main drivers: colonialism and inequity. Over the next 5 years, we are likely going to see climate disasters emerge as a major driver.

#socialEM #cdnhealth

[James Liu @James_Liu99]

Social emergency medicine is about enhancing emergency medicine to become more structurally compassionate, such that we are not dependant on pitting the compassion of individual providers against systemic barriers on a case by case basis.

#SocialEM #cdnhealth

[Andrew Petrosoniak @petrosoniak]

Please tell me this is a joke.

Let me rephrase… EDs that move people thru quicker and provide faster visits (regardless of quality) will get more funding. Oh good.

This just represents a complete misunderstanding of ED care.

I don’t even know where to start.

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[Carolyn Snider @DrCarolynSnider]

We are seeing the impact of many people who arrived in Canada after escaping war on the African continent - in our emergency departments - the effects of being on the street with no access to safe shelter - all 3 levels of govt have played large role in creating these barriers.

[Lucie Richard @_LucieRichard]

🚨Our latest study, out now in @CJEMonline: #Unhoused patients at Toronto EDs are 14x to 18x more likely to have cold-related injuries (things like frostbite and hypothermia) than housed counterparts. #TOpoli #homelessness

https://t.co/LQdKQKQmfK

[Garrick Mok @garrick_mok]

Some tips for new staff starting in July I learned during my first year as staff:
1. Learning doesn't stop at the end of residency. I learned more about EM and trauma in my first year than I would have imagined. Your pathways will continue to be refined as you learn from pts

[Anjali Appadurai @AnjaliApp]

There is a deadly crossover between heat, poverty, mental health, and gov't policy that favours the wealthy.

Climate change kills those at the margins first. That reality is our collective responsibility. Cooling saves lives, and it's climate action.

[James Liu @James_Liu99]

@jonesmcella Thank you @jonesmcella and @bysahilgupta for putting together this great event #equity #SocialEM

[Justin Morgenstern @First10EM]

National Open Letter - Transform public health care

If you are a Canadian, please read this letter from @CdnDrs4Medicare and consider adding your support
https://t.co/gZi3U6nG4G

[Justin Morgenstern @First10EM]

5 key steps to #BetterMedicare in Canada
Team-Based Primary Care
Pharmacare
Single-Entry Specialist Referrals
Home Care
Heath Human Resource Planning