PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻

Pediatric GI. Celiac disease enthusiast.
Trying to stand up for science & truth.
Typos are my specialty & opinions all my own.

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

U of C doctor says study shows for-profit diagnostic screening will lead to unintended problems
https://t.co/U0Y0MV8yaH via @calgaryherald
#Alberta
#healt

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

Many kids smile so big after getting a popsicle. Sometimes it's all they look forward to after getting their IV started.

Please don't take away what's seems like a small thing for adults, but is a huge pleasure for kids.

This is heartless.

@AdrianaLaGrange

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

1/3
Minister Lagrange, if you would like to save money in health care, then taking popsicles away from sick children who come in for IV treatments to hospital is not the place to make cuts.

https://t.co/yHtsMQfbFk
@AHS_media
@YourAlberta

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

3/3
Albertans need to held accountable for wasting health care dollars and taking up a clinic visit from someone who really needs it.

@Albertadoctors
@YourAlberta
@AB_EMS_War_Room

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

2/3
If we are looking to improve health care, then I suggest charging patients a no-show fee. The hospitals have excellent processes in place to remind patients of their appointments (eg. emails, letters).

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

More & more patients are presenting with atypical features and neurological symptoms & fatigue are very common. I often describe celiac disease like a chameleon.
Raising awareness about the many presentations of celiac is critical to reduce the delay in diagnosis that exists.

[Celiac Canada @CCAceliac]

400,000 people in Canada have celiac disease. 6 out of 7 don't know it. Let's change that
This May, we're coming together to support Canadians living with celiac disease and to ask others "Could It Be Celiac?".
#celiacdisease #celiacawarenessmonth #glutenfree #glutenfreediet

[Celiac Canada @CCAceliac]

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#CeliacDisease #GlutenFree #TeenHealth

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

The capital gains tax will definitely affect average working class Canadians.

@JustinTrudeau would have know that if they thought though this taxation policy.

Unintended consequences of the capital gains hike are starting to pile up https://t.co/UcSsE2gJE7 via @nationalpost

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

@alanfryermedia @JustinTrudeau If you really want to make Canadian taxation fair for all generations, then change the tax rules for EVERYONE. Don't just take from the hard earned retirement of doctors. If any grp is any easy target, it's always the doctors. Do more with less.

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

@JustinTrudeau if you wish to make Canada at better place for everyone & make the tax system fair, then increase the tax for EVERYONE. Do not single out innovators & risk takers, or simply take from the hard earned retirement of doctors!
@CBCNews
@CMA_Docs
https://t.co/5wIXdGw047

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

@Swiftie01 This is an additional tax on people who took risks and invested. The government did nothing to enable them. Instead the government is penalizing these Canadians now. Of course it will deter investors in Canada.

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

@trevortombe Thank you for your analysis. Also loved your segment on @RealTalkRJ . If Alberta has a younger population now (with greater contributions to CPP now), won't we then have a larger older population in 20-30 years? Then an APP will run dry faster!

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

Lots reporting the long wait times since @dynaLIFE took over lab services in Calgary. A massive problem!

But as a physician the greater issue was cancelling or running the wrong test!

Pls include this in ur articles, as it's an even greater failure of @dynaLIFE

@globalnews

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

@FionaMattatall @dynaLIFE Agreed!

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

I am angry!!

This @dynaLIFE is a complete disaster!
And it goes way beyond switching to Connect Care...

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

@ShantelSherwood @lahorne38 @dynaLIFE Yes! I am losing my mind for my peds patients in this situation!!

And the lab does not even follow up with the patient to bring them back but rather dumps it into my inbox.

This is the opposite of patient centered care.

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

@youseepeeYYC @FontyPythonBF @dynaLIFE @Labcorp I have emailed people with AHS about this that I thought could help, but no one seemed to know who to contact.

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

@kimberlyconroy @dynaLIFE Yes!

I was at the Beddington Lab a few months ago. Filled with elderly people waiting 3+ hours for blood work since 6am.

One lady beside me said she had to leave after waiting 3hr without even getting her blood work.

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

@youseepeeYYC @FontyPythonBF @dynaLIFE I know.
Whenever a company listed on the stock exchange (@Labcorp ) has part ownership of a publicly funded service (@dynaLIFE) their goal is to cut services, minimally train staff, so as to generate the most profit.

We must sound the alarm as Albertans are suffering daily.

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

@jaquetsmith6 For a few days I thought I was going crazy seeing all these lab tests I ordered not being done.

Daily ConnectCare inbox messages about cancelled labs on children.

Now I realize this is a MASSIVE PROBLEM, and @GoAHealth and @AHS_media are doing nothing meaningful to fix it!

[PedsGI 🇨🇦🇵🇱 🌻 @PedsGImom]

@LadyJayPersists I think they didn't know, but their high tech underwater sonar equipment should have detected it. Embarrassing to involve so many other counties and equipment, if they were looking for debris.