Paediatric Intensive Care Physician, Bioethics MHSc, Humanities enthusiast; lucky husband, dad to loving daughters + skeptical https://xitter.cf/t.co/1fKhhKBU4J wishes, warmest regards.
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"Embarrassment" is an understatement, this is appalling: thestar.com/news/gta/an-emba…
3/21: Happy World Down Syndrome Day!
Today is World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD), 03/21, for 3 copies of the 21st chromosome. Today (and everyday) we advocate for inclusion and equality for individuals with DS. We hope you will join us in celebrating that which makes us all unique! #endthesterotypes 🧦💛🧵
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Thank you @yourICM and @UofTPGME for supporting this work. @SickKidsCCM @HelmersAndrew @Cathe_Proulx @medica_ars
Critical care clinicians & medical humanities?? Humanities may impact personal/collective resilience and well-being by facilitating creation, reflection and meaning-making of challenging clinical work and building strong bonds between colleagues.
🔓 rdcu.be/dADVg
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Toronto, thank you for everything. This one’s for you. ❤️ @PlayersTribune
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Aloha! 🏄Surprised to see this pair of Monk Seals surfing the wild waves at Velzyland Beach (video credit @reena_pabari 🤙) Called it in to the @NOAA 🦭
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Non-Directive #Prenatal #Counseling: A Myth Under the Shroud of #Ableism - by Stephanie H. Meredith. wp.me/p38o3S-1Gr
Happy World Pharmacists Day to the incredible pharmacists @SickKidsCCM!
Happy World Pharmacists Day! Join us in celebrating our @SickKidsRx pharmacists whose passion and dedication to @SickKidsNews patients is unwavering. They manage patients' drug therapies to optimize health outcomes each and every day!
Oh dear, the British Museum is the victim of artifact theft...irony is dead
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As a pediatrician I'm horrified at the built-in trampolines but otherwise agree with Copenhagen as a model for us all 😉
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"Back to the future: ARDS guidelines, evidence, and opinions."
Luciano Gattinoni, Giuseppe Citerio and Arthur S. Slutsky
....for those who may be interested
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@yourICM
@Dr_Cit
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Health Canada approves new antibody drug to help prevent serious #RSV in babies cp24.com/news/health-canada-… via @cp24
Useful link to track Toronto's air quality health index: weather.gc.ca/airquality/pag… (and a good article on protecting your health, including use of N95 when applicable for the particulate matter factored into the index: cbc.ca/news/science/wildfire…)
🎉🎉🎉Congratulations to these incredible 30 faculty @uoftmedicine Dept of Pediatrics on their promotion to Associate and Full Professors- from across the GTA-@SickKidsNews @UnityHealthTO @HBKidsHospital @theWilsonCentre @SouthlakeRHC @SHNcares @SickKidsCCM👏👏
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Beautiful narrative piece by our former #PedsICU fellow, current @ClevelandClinic #PedsCards fellow, and toddler mom, @MIOgden in @PedCritCareMed
Thinking of the Moms
@UVAPediatrics @UVaNICU @CleClinicMD @CleClinicNews
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Another reminder that healthcare as a whole is very much a novice learner rather than a leader in equity, diversity, and inclusion
'Their stories illustrate a health-care system entrenched in #ableism, from infrastructure to interactions.' @UofT utoronto.ca/news/health-care…
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Amazing infographic put together by my colleague @JeffSinghMD @TrilliumGift summarizing some of the key ways the new Death Determination guidelines will affect our day-to-day practice #medtwitter
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A brain-based definition of death and criteria for its determination after arrest of circulation or neurologic function in Canada: a 2023 clinical practice guideline - buff.ly/411hmz3
#DefineDeath #CJA #CJA2023 #Anesthesia #Anesthesiology @CritCareSociety
ATS: we see you. We see that you have failed to acknowledge that organizing conferences in certain states with restrictions relating to reproductive health will exclude members whose well-being is imperilled. You can't fix "feelings of abandonment" with actual abandonment.
