Graeme Purdy

MD Student C2025 @UAlberta_FoMD.
Interests in rehabilitation, palliative care, and pain & symptom management

[Graeme Purdy @gmacpurdy]

@JakeGoodmanMD Thanks for your courage! This needs to be talked about more - I’m so glad to see that you’re using your platform to bring this to the forefront. Stay strong 💪🏻

[Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi @birgitomo]

Repeat after me: Patients experiencing a sickle cell crisis are not drug-seeking. Their pain is real and should be treated accordingly.

[Graeme Purdy @gmacpurdy]

A new first for me in academia - This paper rejection email has me feeling like I let reviewer 2 down… The emotional roller coaster of reading a review that starts with “thrilled” only to have it finish with “disappointing” cannot be understated! #AcademicTwitter #MedTwitter

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

If you drink at a bar or restaurant then you’re using a supervised consumption site (SCS). Luckily you are also accessing a safe, regulated supply. Don’t point fingers at people who use their drugs at the other one. Alcohol is a drug too. Normalize SCS. #EndStigma #harmreduction

[Graeme Purdy @gmacpurdy]

Saturday was quite the day! Over 200km of cycling in ⁦@TheTourAlberta and over $2000 raised for ⁦@albertacancer. Thanks to everyone who donated⁩ #TourAlberta
https://t.co/90m6IOBzrj

[Graeme Purdy @gmacpurdy]

Successfully defended my MSc thesis this morning! So thankful for all the hard work from our participants for helping us run a successful trial. Thanks to @MargieMcNeely for being such a wonderful supervisor too!

[Graeme Purdy @gmacpurdy]

Congrats @rusty_woods - Making 🇨🇦 proud! #TDF2021

[NSN Cycling Team @NSNCyclingTeam]

BREAKING news:

ISN claims the polka dot jersey with @rusty_woods.

He anticipated, joined a late breakaway, collected points along the way and got Israel Start-Up Nation its FIRST EVER #TDF2021 jersey!

There he is, Woodsy, shining on the podium!

#YallaISN #RacingForChange

[Graeme Purdy @gmacpurdy]

Want to donate to an amazing organization AND see me ride 250km? On August 28th, I will ride 100 meters for every dollar I raise for @albertacancer in @TheTourAlberta. Donation link below! #TourAlberta https://t.co/G4vtFygGfs

[Mark Cavendish @MarkCavendish]

Don’t even know what to say. Sending as many positive vibes to you @koendekort as you send to everyone that’s ever anywhere near you x

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

But, is this really Canada?

Residential schools. The Sixties Scoop. Missing and Murdered Women, Girls & 2-Spirit People. First Nations water advisories. Disproportionate representation in prisons & jails. Stolen land. Systemic anti-Indigenous racism.

Yes, this is really Canada.

[Graeme Purdy @gmacpurdy]

@ExercisePreg @lyanhreid @RshmiKhurana @JasnaTwynstra @BillyStrean Congrats @lyanhreid! That’s huge 👏👏👏

[Graeme Purdy @gmacpurdy]

Richly inadequate, Mr. Francis. You need to:
1. Offer a proper apology
2. Release all residential school records

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

I join the Canadian Bishops and the whole Catholic Church in Canada in expressing my closeness to the Canadian people, who have been traumatised by shocking discovery of the remains of two hundred and fifteen children, pupils at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

It's also mind blowing that people who consume substances up in the sky while *violating* provincial regulations can close life-saving consumption sites at ground level that *meet* federal regulations. #SupportSCS

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

If Canada cares, we’ll lower our flags. We’ll have a national week of mourning. We’ll stop fighting Residential School Survivors in court. We’ll act on Truth & Reconciliation.

If Canada cares, we’ll accept this genocide isn’t just our past, but our present too.

#215children

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

215 Indigenous children found dead.

215 reasons to learn about residential schools.
215 reasons to reflect on Canada's blood stained colonial past.
215 reasons to face this country's role in genocide.

An infinite number of reasons why an entire country should be grieving.

[Graeme Purdy @gmacpurdy]

Well, that’s a wrap! Today, I taught the last virtual group exercise class for my #feasibility study on home #exercise in #myeloma - my primary thesis study. Going to miss teaching from my little home studio/gym. Now onto writing!!!

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“A new cost-benefit study in New Zealand finds that investments in cycling & walking facilities outweigh the costs of building them by 10 to 1. The research found that the most important economic benefits were health gains from use of active transport.” https://t.co/JEGofP4vAj

[University of Alberta @UAlberta]

An innovative fitness program encourages kids with heart disease or transplants to get a safe workout at home while doctors monitor their vital signs from afar: https://t.co/GTeoEjEHVl #UAlberta #HealthInnovation

@UAlberta_FoMD @ualbertaScience @WCHRIUofA @HeartandStroke

[Graeme Purdy @gmacpurdy]

Twitter typos are the worst... should be #implementation!

[Graeme Purdy @gmacpurdy]

Check out our new review on the #implementatiom of #exercise programming for #cancer survivors in @SpringerNature @jcansurv. Thanks to @MargieMcNeely, @FrancesSobiera1, and Twitter-less Naomi Dolgoy for their help on this one! Read here: https://t.co/bOxer1BPXs