Lilith

Retired Lawyer #Long Covid #MECFS but doing my best…. Lives in Canada and in Florida.

[Lilith @joanfair]

@sassy_kitty09 @mikebolen @SenMarkKelly They are NOT celebrating in the streets. Pure lies.

[Lilith @joanfair]

@maddenifico Fake news. How could you not check before posting?

[Lilith @joanfair]

@peggy_blair Anita Anand’s response was just embarrassing. Carney’s too. Treading water for a day is okay, but how could they not be better prepared for this? We all knew it was coming.

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

When my ER patient who is admitted to hospital stays in the ER for 3 days because there is no hospital bed available - I'm flagging we have a problem Ontario.

[Lilith @joanfair]

@JoJoFromJerz @SenatorCollins She is, absolutely, this stupid.

[Lilith @joanfair]

@mikejwhelan Your writing burns so deeply. Exquisite.

[Lilith @joanfair]

@leftymagnet @potatopuff6 @NickJFreitas @realDonaldTrump It was a woman who won. And that’s not who US said was the new president. I think this will be a massive failure.

[Lilith @joanfair]

@AnitaAnandMP This is a disappointing response. Particularly when we know Canada is next.

[Jesse @d0wnsideofme]

holy fucking shit

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

ER doc here. Canada's surge in temporary foreign workers isn't the problem in my clinical practise in Toronto. It has zero to do with the most crucial ER problems. Just to follow-up on this Paikin podcast below. 👇👇👇

To be frank, Tony Keller of the Globe and Mail gives a solid overview of the immigration situation in Canada. I'm not here to justify or condemn the different streams of immigration to Canada - that is beyond my expertise as an ER doctor. But what I can say is that the healthy young temporary foreign workers are not flooding my urban ER downtown and community practise.

Rather - the challenge in Canadian ERs are complex patients, often older, who need to be admitted to hospital but there is no hospital bed to admit them to - so they stay days and days in ER. That means the ER is another hospital ward, and no longer the ER - ready for incoming patients.

And - if a healthy young temporary foreign worker does come to the ER they are usually ambulatory and take up a chair which is not a big deal. They almost never need to be consulted to a specialist in the ER or need to be admitted.

Canadian ERs can handle volume, but overcrowding due to a lack of bed space - because the ER is full of admitted patients - that kills.

Policy experts can debate the merits and drawback of the immigration surge under Prime Minister Trudeau, but that has nothing to do in my experience with the woes on ER medical practise.

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Excellent.
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[Lilith @joanfair]

@David_J_Bier What has happened to the days when people kept their negative thoughts to themselves. Shut up!

[Meighan Stone @meighanstone]

THANK YOU to everyone engaging on my #OneoftheTwo #LongCOVID response—can hardly believe 85k views! Somehow now an apartment repair emergency has displaced us during the holidays. Still determined to start 2026 in gratitude, so please know will respond to your kind messages soon!

[Lilith @joanfair]

@JohnDoe75692933 @anders_aslund BOT.

[Lilith @joanfair]

@mikejwhelan I woke up at 5:30 AM and read this post. Heartbreaking. Soft. Truth. You’ve made it real for us. I’m so sorry.

[Lilith @joanfair]

@PutrinoLab @seeksboston26mi @jonstewart @weeklyshowpod After 5 years and about 16 days, I am in severe heart failure and bedridden due to COVID. Thank you for calling out this “error” by @jonstewart.

[Dr. Brian Goldman @NightShiftMD]

@cbcwhitecoat is looking for an overcrowded ER that has the guts to allow us in to show Canadians how challenging it is to work in those conditions.

[Lilith @joanfair]

@mikejwhelan It is noble. It is the MOST noble and respectful thing you can do now. Watch and give her the freedom of her choice. It is her life. You are part of it but it is her life and her final choice. Stop fighting. Just watch and quietly wait. Let peace be in the room. For her.

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

When 1/2 of all ER patients are an admitted patient who has no actual hospital bed to be moved to, we must admit there's a serious problem. This is a key element that led to the tragic death of Mr. Prashanth Sreekumar in Alberta.

Canada lacks the necessary hospital capacity.

[Lilith @joanfair]

@LucasSa56947288 @Michael47899234 Not necessarily. I had this many times during COVID and it’s a fairly normal part of being at the hospital. They put in an IV in case you need meds. The needle is tiny. But it means nothing really…..except he’s getting an IV fairly often.