Dawn Turner

family physician, citizen, parent and spouse

[Dawn Turner @MomKnits]

Today in Central NL - Dr. Turner is tired of seeing the cracks in the system - cracks that I watch people slip through every day. Cracks that I see getting bigger and bigger….

[Paula Slaney MD, CCFP, FAWM @Paula_slaney]

If family doctors in NL were paid $578 per visit, I doubt there would be a shortage. MCP pays your family docs on average $40 per visit (before overhead). Our gov't continues to spend millions on bandaid solutions while FPs close their doors across the province #nlpoli #nlhealth

[Lynette Powell @tlynettepowell]

11 million for 19,000 virtual visits. That’s $578 per visit. https://t.co/chQVN1lcRd

[Shanda Slipp @sslipp]

Brilliant article by @SarahGiles10 👏👏

“But what I really need to ask for are changes that move the stress of keeping rural services open off of the people working in hospitals and back onto the politicians and civil servants responsible for the health-care system.”

[alan drummond @alandrummond2]

The perfect gift for any rural Newfoundland home.

[Town of Grand Falls-Windsor @towngfw]

PUBLIC STATEMENT:
Update on Efforts to Improve Cell Phone Coverage in Grand Falls-Windsor

Read in full on our website: https://t.co/uXN9uIyPEw.

[André Picard @picardonhealth]

Hey Canada, let’s stop the #homeopathy lie: Alberta is considering whether homeopathy and other 'alternative medicine' should be publicly-funded. It's a bad idea to fund bunk says @CaulfieldTim. https://t.co/42N7kVNSRN via @HealthyDebate

[Syed A. Ahmad @SyedAAhmad5]

Medical knowledge is doubling every 60 days.

There are no shortcuts for training physicians.

MEDICINE IS DIFFICULT AND SERIOUS BUSINESS. 👇🏼👇🏼

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the Day, again, is 'malversation' (16th century): corrupt or fraudulent behaviour by someone in a position of power.

[Lynette Powell @tlynettepowell]

Imagine

[alan drummond @alandrummond2]

The Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador is an orthopedic surgeon. He knows there in NO such thing as a "Virtual Fracture Clinic" and yet is quite content, apparently, to promote the concept of a "Virtual ER".

[alan drummond @alandrummond2]

Another garbage week for Emergency Medicine in Canada.
Interior BC ERs dropping like flies; Newfoundland gives up and promotes telephone calls with a granny figure; Nova Scotia and Alberta now report shuttered ERs like they do road closures.
Crisis? What crisis?

[alan drummond @alandrummond2]

A "Virtual" ER is not now or ever, an ER.

[Lynette Powell @tlynettepowell]

@alandrummond2 Well I guess Ontario and Newfoundland have this sad fact in common. Really a bad look when other provinces have figured out how to negotiate in good faith

[Town of Grand Falls-Windsor @towngfw]

PUBLIC ADVISORY:
Due to mechanical issues, the Splash Pad at Goodyear Avenue Playground is closed until further notice. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

[Shanda Slipp @sslipp]

Happy for my PEI colleagues - this will go a long way.
@HCS_GovNL @GovNL can do the same before it’s too late

[alan drummond @alandrummond2]

Cardiac arrest? Multi-system trauma? Code stroke? Ma Bell can’t help. Virtual ER not an ER

[Lynette Powell @tlynettepowell]

With House of Assembly back in session, please 🙏 MHA’s for CentralNL, ask the MOH why so many people still have minimal access to primary care in Central. We can’t keep going like this, the consequences are heartbreaking

[Gavin Preston, M.D. @GavinPrestonMD]

Medicine is the profession where when the canary in the coal mine dies, administrators just ask--
"Why can't we find more resilient canaries?"