Randy Beans

He/Him/His London boy turned small town Family Doctor 🇬🇧➡️🇳🇿➡️🇨🇦 Med Ed, Urgent, Rural and Palliative medicine. Views are mountains

[Randy Beans @Drewgen]

@AbdulSh71634682 @dave_dlt Interior of British Columbia

[kootenaysdoc @kootenaysdoc]

I would like to personally thank @adriandix for supporting national physician licensing.

Within 24 hr I was contacted by a Canadian MD I keen on working in underserved rural BC towns.

Locum (ie substitute doctor) access is a critical issue for rural BC

A 🧵. . .

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[Dr Jessica Otte, CCFP, FCFP🇨🇦 - palliative/FP @LessIsMoreMed]

Hey family docs/FPs in training: 🤨

Care about @CFPC_e transparency, ^fees, for/against the added 3rd year of FP training?

(re)Check your emails if you can't attend Nov 1st meeting: VOTE by proxy!!!!!

@BCCFP @NanaimoDivision @ResidentDocsBC
https://t.co/tB4BHGIFKz

[Sonja B @Sonjalovesbikes]

As a recently graduated family doctor (2020) I wish to say in no uncertain terms that the @CFPC_e's plan to lengthen training by a year will worsen the exodus of people from family medicine, as so many have been saying

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[Randy Beans @Drewgen]

@BCCFP It was, thank you! 😃

[Randy Beans @Drewgen]

First day as a fully fledged rural GP. Not a bad commute, eh? #ruralmedicine

[Randy Beans @Drewgen]

@nathan_warner Good knowledge!

[Randy Beans @Drewgen]

@zoeblofeld Very tough to get in without completing specialty training, sadly. Without it, you first need to get permanent residency and then apply to specialty training as an IMG which, outside of GP, is almost impossibly competitive

[PreparedBC @PreparedBC]

Animals may be able to detect natural disasters before they happen, but humans not so much. Thankfully, the National Earthquake Early Warning System is coming to parts of B.C.

Learn more at: https://t.co/zkPJaZUMJW

#EPWeek2023 #ReadyforAnything

[Randy Beans @Drewgen]

@abd_jabbar @Gas_Air_CCdoc @AleenaAman2 Learn all about it here! https://t.co/qTPqNM4ADc

[Randy Beans @Drewgen]

@Vanessa58386340 @BCFamilyDoctors @BC_GP_Shortage @Docs4BC @DrJLush @DrDMPetersMD @DrRFernandez @JoshGreggain @DrErinCCFP @minhas_andy Amazing!! Where can I find this stated officially?

[Randy Beans @Drewgen]

@Vanessa58386340 @Docs4BC @BC_GP_Shortage @adriandix I’m one of those docs! I would LOVE to do the NTP contract as I’m planning to start a new panel, but the uncertainty around it is extremely frustrating

[Randy Beans @Drewgen]

@StewartCattroll @SarahGiles10 @CFPC_e Yeah the bottleneck/competition for Canadian doctors trying to come back is wild. Huge numbers won’t have matched this year, whilst we have all these spots unfilled

[Randy Beans @Drewgen]

@Addleben @davidcarr333 @SarahGiles10 @CFPC_e Totally. There need to be more slots, especially that allow people to train at smaller sites/in rural areas. I shouldn’t have to relocate to Vancouver for a year to up-skill!

[AccessBC Campaign for Free Contraception @AccessBC]

We did it!! Free universal prescription contraception was included in the 2023 BC Provincial Budget and will be available for all British Columbians starting April 1st!! 🥳🎉🎈

Read our press release at:
https://t.co/GvyAbfXc8C

[Adrian Dix @adriandix]

Thousands of people in British Columbia will benefit from #BC PharmaCare’s expanded coverage of medications used to treat Type 2 diabetes, heart failure and blood clots.
https://t.co/HTCCiqaRJy

[Randy Beans @Drewgen]

@BirinderNarang Sad to see this situation is still showing no signs of improving

[Randy Beans @Drewgen]

Yesterday I had to phone SIX pharmacies to find one with Amoxicillin in stock to treat a child with pneumonia. In Vancouver. The system is falling apart and it is going to cost children their lives

[Randy Beans @Drewgen]

@omarsiddiqueski @bacteriollygy I blame Canadian physicians telling their patients “it looks like you have Strep, eh”