Amy Allen

Nurse Practitioner providing Primary Health Care. Mom of 3. She/Her.

[Amy Allen @AmyAllen23]

Happy Father’s Day to this kind, thoughtful and very fun dad. We love you ⁦@dpenfold⁩

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

great day to share some of my fav pics of princess diana hanging out and shaking hands w AIDS patients at a time when the disease was so stigmatized, nurses would leave trays of food outside of patients’ rooms for fear of catching it via touch

[Amy Allen @AmyAllen23]

@drjessigold Loved it and grateful for your acknowledgment of burn out amongst the entire health care team including those without a microphone (just spoke to a medical receptionist who thanked me for being the first person to speak kindly to her today)

[Amy Allen @AmyAllen23]

@birgitomo So normal. Be kind to yourself. I think you overcome it gradually with time. Slowly the feeling becomes less intense, less physically painful and you start to feel a bit more like your prior self.

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

Who prescribes in Ontario is not a health discipline turf-war. MDs work with prescribing NPs, PAs and MDs like myself have worked in austerity where RNs did the ward round, I taught them LPs and they prescribed. It is a public vs private-corporate interest turf-war.

[Jill Promoli @jillpromoli]

The flu can cause cardiac arrest, even in children. That isn't new. We lived it. We're experiencing an exceptionally challenging flu season now, hitting earlier and harder than we're able to manage.

Please get your #FluShot as you're able. It may save a life. #ForJudeForEveryone

[Michael Warner @drmwarner]

Ontario's Paediatric ICU census report shows 111/112 beds occupied.

2 patients have COVID.

The gravity of the situation should be acknowledged by our public health and elected leaders.

[Amy Allen @AmyAllen23]

@YU_President Thanks Julia ❤️

[Amy Allen @AmyAllen23]

Reaching out to #medtwitter to see if anyone who has knowledge of treatment protocols for metastatic bladder cancer would be willing to provide informal support/information sharing to a fellow healthcare provider personally dealing with this in a loved one, my dad 💔

[Amy Allen @AmyAllen23]

@slaugelledurkin Thank you

[Amy Allen @AmyAllen23]

@CJChassels Thank you so much. I am hoping that is fixed now?

[Amy Allen @AmyAllen23]

My followers list is small but hoping that a retweet might get this message to someone who can help 🤞

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

The fundamental decision facing humanity is do I care for my community or do I care for myself.

As an ER doc, let me tell you, your life can change on the turn of a dime.

Invest in your community, no person is an island.

[Amie Archibald-Varley @AmieVarley]

Ontario has gone full Florida now.

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

ER RN/RPN reality: frozen wages, racism/sexism from pts, physical violence, 30:1 pt ratio threatening their license, impossible number of MD orders, angry pts, angry families, no breaks, hard to speak out, better agency pay, Ford gov't ignores ONA recommendations. Why stay?

[Amy Allen @AmyAllen23]

Happy Birthday to this guy @dpenfold We love you so much!

[Andrew Petrosoniak @petrosoniak]

We keep hearing how our healthcare system is collapsing (which it is). But that does nothing to improve our understanding.

Let’s use a hypothetical emergency department visit to highlight the disaster that is happening every day around the country.

Here’s a thread 🧵:

[Amy Allen @AmyAllen23]

@DrKateJMiller @SabiVM Amazing!!

[Tara Kiran @tara_kiran]

5 million Canadians don't have a primary care home and that's a huge problem

But arguing about whether we need more family docs OR more NPs in primary care to "fix" the problem is the wrong debate and a false choice

We need BOTH—and a whole lot more 🧵

https://t.co/VN1rMG2Aao