Valerie Testa

Post-Marketing Surveillance of Medical Devices, Health Canada | MSc, uOttawa | Views are my own | 🏊🏻‍♀️🚴‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️🏌️‍♀️❄️ | She/Her/Elle

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

First they came for the em dash and I did not speak out. Then they came for the Oxford comma…

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

As the work year comes to a close, we're all under immense pressure. Please avoid cruel and destructive question like, "how's it going?"; "how's the writing coming along"; and "wow, what number coffee is that?"

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

If I win the lottery, I won’t tell anyone, but there will be signs.. 😉

[Paper Parrot @paperparrot_]

he woke up from his nap, started whining thinking he was all alone… little did he know his human was upstairs watching the whole drama the look on his face when he realized it priceless 😂

[Nick Mark MD @nickmmark]

The standard prescription for Epi-Pens is 2 pens.

This isn’t so you have a spare.

Some anaphylactic reactions are biphasic meaning symptoms return after/despite the first dose. About 10% require a second epinephrine dose.

If you need it, you want to have BOTH pens with you!

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Gisele Pelicot was drugged by her husband for a decade. He would solicit men to come and rape her unconscious body

He recorded it

She’s reliving it because one of the men is appealing

He says: “I don't accept being labelled a rapist. It's too heavy a burden for me to carry” 🧵

[Dr. Brian Goldman @NightShiftMD]

Advocating for the forced euthanasia of people in precarious housing is evil and must be called out as so.

[Deonandan @deonandan]

Optional remote work is compassionate, efficient, and inclusive. It's also the future. Efforts to role it back are regressive and dishonestly motivated, and ultimately will fail.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Too many people fail to understand the role poverty plays in chronic illness

Money can’t buy health, but a lack of money can make your health worse & life harder

Universal healthcare & basic income would do more to create a healthier society than all the “wellness” in the world

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

you never realize how long a minute is until you're exercising

[emily may @emilykmay]

lots of talk about raising boys to also participate in household chores, but I think one of the best things we can do for them (and this is gender neutral really!) is teaching them to walk into a room and notice what needs to be done, and then do it without being asked.

[Dr. Brian Goldman @NightShiftMD]

Immunization is not just an act of self-preservation. It’s an act of empathy for the community.

[Justin Manning ⓥ @justinmanningv]

How libs aren’t using this gif for the Carleton riding is beyond me

[Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS @DrPlantel]

Here’s a hard truth every “wellness influencer” needs to swallow: someone can do everything *right* when it comes to a healthy lifestyle and still get sick or be diagnosed with chronic diseases. The lifestyle vs. medicine debate needs to die. It’s not an either/or situation, use both to improve health!

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

"The erosion of trust in science undermines not only research, but also the policies that protect public health, the environment, and human rights."

We must stand up for science before it is too late, write @Kit_Yates_Maths and colleagues
https://t.co/XqWWbCvTVk

[Deonandan @deonandan]

Measles in Ontario. Look closely. One dose of vaccine is 93% efficacious in preventing infection; two doses 97%. But immunity can wane over many years time.

Thread [1/3]

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

watching someone change your already perfect sentence in the google doc

[Roddy 🇨🇦 @RodKahx]

Hello smokes, is this ever good.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Qualitative Quantitative