She was upsold thousands of dollars in extra services at a private for-profit clinic, and when she started to ask questions, the doctor asked her to leave.
NEW data on surgical wait times shows that Ontario was best in Canada in 2022 for hip & knee replacements (and has been so for most of the past decade).
Story from @LaurenPelley, data from @CIHI_ICIS
https://t.co/K0Ia7vRzrD
Prediction: Hard no.
There will be lots of "largest! ever! investments!" (cuz inflation) and "1.5 million new homes" (not said: that'll also be the price) and "making life more affordable" (just not true).
Today’s Globe & Mail reported that 20% of CIBC’s residential mortgage portfolio is in a state where monthly payments aren’t even fully covering interest payments -- and overall loan balances are growing. No wonder the BoC hit pause button!
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Thx to @globeandmail for the opportunity to make this case.
Ontario hospitals and NFP community surgery centres have plenty of capacity to increase surgery if they’re funded to do so.
Ontario does not need more for-profit surgery https://t.co/iWFR46KHe9
Today, Doug Ford and Sylvia Jones missed an opportunity to prove themselves capable of managing our healthcare system.
Instead of tackling the intricacies of publicly funding surgical and diagnostic centres, they ignored them.
Here’s what I wish they said.
#onhealth#onpoli
I mentor a young lad with poor literacy skills who is starting a landscaping business. He struggles to communicate with clients in a professional manner.
I created a GPT3-powered Gmail account to which he sends a message. It responds with the text to send to the client.
Look, I'm pretty skeptical of "Canada is so much better than America" content, but this tweet is absolutely correct.
Voter conditions in some (cough) neighbourhoods there are just absolutely ridiculous.
https://t.co/0TIt7rxqe8
So just to recap:
- kids getting hit with RSV & other viruses hard
- no public health push for flu or covid vaccines from govt
- no public health push for masking indoors in public spaces
- no fever & pain meds
- ERs pushed past capacity
- major shortage of amoxicillin
Cool
“…as most of the kids who are hospitalized with Omicron actually don't have an underlying risk factor."”
1% of kids under 5 have both doses of the vaccine
https://t.co/FihrnztjSi