Proud #Canadian. Fierce advocate. Politically engaged. Health conscious. Navigating the world with a COVID-Competent approach.
#NotASnowballsChanceInHell
Remember when pandemics used to end? That was the ‘before times.’ Now, we’ve decided to live in perpetual crisis. Here’s why, and why it should terrify us. 🧵
McMaster University researchers discovered on Wednesday a promising new antibiotic capable of killing some of the world’s most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria.
https://t.co/UU8qO88X94
No CUSMA.
No BOOZE-MA.
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If the Trump administration wants us to sell US booze again, President Trump needs to drop his tariffs that are making life more expensive on both sides of the border.
We’re a primary care practice in Vermont. We implemented a practice-wide protocol screening every patient at every encounter for recent SARS-CoV-2 infection history. What we’re observing in our panel is not consistent with a psychosomatic framework.
We’re seeing measurable, objective increases in new-onset hypertension, acute cardiovascular events, new-onset allergic disease, and new-onset type 2 diabetes mellitus, all temporally correlated with infection history. These are not symptom reports. These are clinical findings.
More than a dozen GOP lawmakers defied their own leadership — and President Donald Trump — by voting with Democrats to approve a major bill to deliver billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine while imposing steep sanctions on Russia. https://t.co/VIh0VHbc7A
We must be crystal clear about a few points. Long Covid is not a "poorly understood neuroimmune disorder" with no biomarkers. It is a widely studied biological medical condition. Pathology spanning basically all body systems is well documented, with damage in situ across organs
In @nytopinion
“Our society’s approach to menopause and perimenopause reflects the deep flaws of a health system that has long treated women as an afterthought,” Melinda French Gates writes. https://t.co/FFGJvlpVqa
@DystopianBarbie@hannahspierMD 🎯 Women’s studies, sociology, and basic history should be compulsory courses in medical school -- certainly for psychiatrists.
If you identify with feminism you can’t love a man. Feminism teaches contempt for men. Contempt is finding a being deficient, activating disgust. Love means to sacrifice. Why would you sacrifice for someone you find inferior to you? Instead, the man is lucky to have you.
@hannahspierMD Feminism means I don’t believe love requires female submission. That is not contempt for men. That is contempt for ownership.
If equal rights make you feel unloved, the problem is not feminism, babe.
Attendance report card:
Data tracked by the Ontario NDP shows Premier Doug Ford skipped roughly one in three sessions of question period during the spring sitting and was only present for 7 full-length sessions.
https://t.co/CLFTt6XOkm
#onpoli