Sarah Gower MD

Rural family doctor, obstetrics || Chair, Maternal & Newborn Care @SRPCanada || Rural Wellington Hospice Steering Committee II she/her

[Sarah Gower MD @GowerMD]

Back onto xwitter a few times this week for world series chatter-- sports xwitter is still going strong. I do miss this platform. Who's still here? Do we think EM is less evil since the breakup? what are the vibes

[Sarah Gower MD @GowerMD]

Twitter was a really important part of my life for many years. Now, on to bluer skies:
[email protected]

[Milena Forte MD, CCFP @milena_forte]

Only a few left in stock! Time to reload our supply. Thanks to everyone who has supported our Anthology of Family Medicine Birth Stories @CFPC_e, @UofTFamilyMed. Proceeds to Sinai Fam Med OB projects. Get your copy at Indigo @SinaiHealth or on Amazon👇 https://t.co/8cGU84NG2v

[Avis Favaro @Avis_Favaro]

The majority of Ontario #hospitals are running deficits. ERs close for lack of staff. This report details the how provincial government spent $1.3 billion less on healthcare than budgeted. https://t.co/1RasyzwSwD

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“It’s utterly dire” in Gaza, says UNICEF’s @1james_elder. “I was in Al-Aqsa Hospital on Tuesday… with doctors walking over children missing limbs, with horrendous burns… [They] urgently need medical attention outside but cannot get it. And if they cannot get it, they will die.”

[Avis Favaro @Avis_Favaro]

More than 1,200 ER's have seen services temporarily closed over the past year, according to the Ontario Health Coalition. It's not buying the government's explanations.
So the advocacy group is holding public hearings across rural Ontario to find out how healthcare cuts are hurting those living in smaller communities.
https://t.co/xHeErIM6oX @ScottMillerCTV @CTVNews #ERcrisis

[Milena Forte MD, CCFP @milena_forte]

Excited to announce that our book “Full Circle: a Collection of Family Medicine Birth Stories” is now available on Amazon ! Just in time for Mothers Day :) Authors from across 🇨🇦 including @docter_audrey @GowerMD @skolker @annebiringer1 @kfleming_md https://t.co/0zyT31OmUt

[Sarah Gower MD @GowerMD]

@DGlaucomflecken Ortho bro dream come true

[UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC]

“Following nearly 6 months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied #Gaza, it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of & to present my findings: 'the Anatomy of a Genocide'.”

— Special Rapporteur @FranceskAlbs at @UN Human Rights Council.

#HRC55

[Sarah Gower MD @GowerMD]

Yet another parenting milestone: when you’re heading away for a conference, and instead of your children wondering how they will survive without you, they only want to know if you are taking the car or leaving it for them.

[Andrew Petrosoniak @petrosoniak]

Imagine working 40+yrs in the healthcare system… and this is what you’re left thinking as you end your career….

"In the end. I can't take responsibility for the whole system, which I would say is broken."

An important but sad quote by my dad, a 73yr GP trying to retire.

[Dr. Sarah Newbery 💙💛 @snewbery1]

Valuable thread with important key ideas for recruitment/retention in rural.

There is an overarching need for a rural health care strategy - national and provincial - that can coordinate evidence based supports and "rural-proofed" policies that support clinicians and teams.

[Dennis Buchanan @LawyerBuchanan]

A few thoughts on Danielle Smith's plan to restrict medical treatments to transgender youth.

As a lawyer, I don't pretend to have a detailed understanding of the medical science surrounding these courses of treatment.

But neither do policymakers, generally.

[Tyler Black, MD @tylerblack32]

Talking to kids when they're struggling🧵
For parents (or anyone who cares for kids!)

It can be really scary to notice something in your kid & be worried suicidality/self-harm.

How do you approach kids?

I've had this conversation >10000 times so I have some tips!

Be CALM

/1

[Sarah Gower MD @GowerMD]

Well this seems normal and unconcerning.

[Avis Favaro @Avis_Favaro]

Some Ontario hospitals “have been forced to take out high-interest loans from banks… to continue operating.” Hospitals in deficit to provide basic healthcare | Ottawa Citizen ⁦@egpayne⁩ #healthcare https://t.co/VrWQzuKev5

[Sarah Gower MD @GowerMD]

Women’s hockey is awesome because it’s like, “omg hi! How are you, how are the kids, haven’t seen you in ages” and then the puck drops and we’re immediately the worst enemies cutting each other off and getting in each others faces it’s so satisfying 😂

[Heme Doc @LabsandMAbs]

I am continuing to give potentially curative chemotherapy but my patients can’t get emergency care for febrile neutropenia, suddenly the risk of death goes up. Esp. during respiratory virus season.
We can’t give antibiotics or other meds at the cancer centre.
This is disastrous.

[Sarah Gower MD @GowerMD]

@AnaWerlang2 I mean some people really like their shoes, pay attention to shoes, realize how much their shoes improve their health and their lives, believe good shoes are worth their cost…others just take their shoes for granted, until one day they’re gone.

Metaphor still holds! 👟 👞 👠

[Sarah Gower MD @GowerMD]

Family doctors are like your shoes. You don’t really think about us until suddenly we’re all gone.

[André Picard @picardonhealth]

This is the reason your ER doctors are leaving. You don’t have a family doctor, and you can’t get an admission bed. So you end up waiting and waiting in the ER for a physician who might not be able to help much, by @Wall_BF https://t.co/EImy89bq1X @TorontoStar @raghu_venugopal