Dr Bob Sweetland

ER Physician

[The Local Magazine (Archived Account) @TheLocal_TO]

“The thing you need to understand about our health system is that we don’t have one… It is more aptly described as a field of silos.” https://t.co/WbJrw0Ay7o

[Dr Bob Sweetland @Sweetlander]

@GRDrobot Political control and suppression of any medical data is just wrong, including public health.

This is science not propaganda.

Imagine if other doctors had to check with the premier before talking honestly to their pts about their conditions. 🤦‍♂️

[Dr Bob Sweetland @Sweetlander]

In response to our many health sys failures, I can't imagine a more callous, arrogant or dismissive attitude from gov than "Coulda Shoulda Woulda"

No compassion, no accountability, no integrity

Health care desperately needs leadership that actually gives a damn

[Dr Bob Sweetland @Sweetlander]

So .. the province plans to lift restrictions and reopen the MB economy.

Meanwhile the health system remains essentially closed, with overflowing hospitals, 12 hr waits in ERs and months or yrs long waits for procedures.

@AudreyGordonMB Where's the plan to #ReopenHealthcare?

[Dr Bob Sweetland @Sweetlander]

This brilliant analysis of ER overcrowding and dysfunction is a must read for anyone wondering why ERs are struggling so badly, and why nobody ever seems able to fix them.

Spoiler: It's not just the ER, it's the entire health system that needs fixing.

[CJEM @CJEMonline]

Saving Emergency Medicine. Is less more? https://t.co/Xib0LL8ceU A call to advocacy for our patients from @PaulAtkinsonEM @GrantInnesEM & @KenMcGeorge @CAEP_Docs @ACEPAdvocacy @RCEMLearning

[Dr Bob Sweetland @Sweetlander]

And this is why HC badly needs an INDEPENDENT safety board analogous to transportation's TSB.

HAs alone can't be counted on to be objective or transparent when it comes to examining ALL the contributing factors behind errors in HC.

[David Fisman @DFisman]

One of the basic tenets of quality improvement is that errors are system problems. Blaming workers pushes mistakes underground and makes problems harder to solve.

https://t.co/C65mV4Qem5

[Dr Bob Sweetland @Sweetlander]

Dr Atwal spinning fact-pretzels in a lame attempt to justify the province's mask policies is baffling and infuriating.

Omicron is airborne.

Time for the gov to take their heads out of the sand and acknowledge this fact.

N95s should be THE mask for all HCWs and teachers.

[Dr Bob Sweetland @Sweetlander]

@JillianHortonMD @CBCNews Excellent interview.

I would say "despondent" very accurately describes the mood of many HCWs in the face of Omicron

It's hard to have hope when provincial leadership is so indifferent and misguided

Makes me grateful for all my hard-working ER colleagues

[Dr Bob Sweetland @Sweetlander]

If MbGov feels so strongly that the public only needs "strong recommendations" to follow PH advice ...

perhaps they would put their money where their mouth is and make income tax a "strong recommendation" too.

[Dr Bob Sweetland @Sweetlander]

Please, let there be inquests.

Our health system has been dismantled and mismanaged into the ground.

An 'autopsy' may be the only way to learn what went horribly wrong, so it won't happen again.

#Accountability

[Dr Bob Sweetland @Sweetlander]

CPHO Dr Tam is calling on employers to provide their employees with "The best masks possible that you can get your hands on ..."

Does this mean we can expect the MB health authorities to upgrade all their HCWs to N95s?

Because we should.

https://t.co/V5CkbAKN32

[Dr Bob Sweetland @Sweetlander]

To the list of failed MB task forces I would add the 2019 Illicit Drug TF

Ask anyone trying to find help for an opiate or meth addiction ...
We have way too little to offer, and it's shameful

We’ve seen this play before - via @winnipegnews https://t.co/tETSlE0GLH

[Dr Bob Sweetland @Sweetlander]

The nursing shortage will never improve until the HAs stop treating HCWs like expendable automatons and start caring for them like humans

Yes, there's a nursing shortage, but there's especially a shortage of nurses willing to work for these employers under these conditions

[Dr Bob Sweetland @Sweetlander]

100% agree that an inquiry into the flawed decision making and disasterous implementation of consolidation is sorely needed.

The public deserves to know what went on and how decisions were made.

Accountability is required when lives are at stake

https://t.co/YjfV1wwoYk

[Dr Bob Sweetland @Sweetlander]

PH should be an agency at arm's length from the Government. PH bulletins and modelling should always be part of the public record.

It's never right to keep the public in the dark about what the science says. It's just an open invitation to foul it up.

[Dr Bob Sweetland @Sweetlander]

Unfortunately, standard MO for our health system.

Consider Hallway medicine, ER wait times, System consolidation.

Doesn't lead to optimism for the devastating nursing shortages, massive surgical backlogs, or shamefully underserviced sectors of our province.

[Uzoma Asagwara @UAsagwara]

“What we're seeing is a failure of leadership, a failure of planning, a failure of implementation and most of all, a failure to correct the issues that were so clearly laid out in the Maples report that that government promised to make changes on.”

https://t.co/lwHSoX3dNj

[Dr Bob Sweetland @Sweetlander]

Yes, yes, yes!
@danlett is 100% correct.

Public Health and govt's science experts should be allowed to speak directly to the public without political interference

Accountability and transparency must be sacred for everyone involved in health decisions

https://t.co/aZhjxrUVhF

[Dr Bob Sweetland @Sweetlander]

This.
It's as if health-policy leaders think accountability is only for the frontlines.
👇👇👇👇👇

[Dr Bob Sweetland @Sweetlander]

Antivax and anti-mask protesters are increasingly showing themselves to be little more than selfish anarchists.

There's something about being part of a society, the part that has to do with the 'common good', that they just don't seem willing to comprehend.

[Uzoma Asagwara @UAsagwara]

Spoke to some HSC nurses tonight and they’re struggling.

They take care of us in our most difficult health moments and have sacrificed so much during this pandemic.

They need us to lift them up.

Let’s show them and our frontline allied workers that we appreciate them.