@2sorefeet.bsky.social
Mom, MD, Horse and Cat Keeper
A well-known and highly respected Nanaimo-based doctor now has the Province's highest honour.
#Nanaimo
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"Bill 26 says that politicians must have a seat in our exam rooms. Doctors may be forced to choose between offering evidence-based care that is in their patients’ best interest, and breaking the law." Et tu @josieosborne.bsky.social ?
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Monarch Butterfly chrysalis about to hatch.
30.06.2025 10:00 — 👍 415 🔁 43 💬 6 📌 7
After going through her own journey of being diagnosed and treated for breast cancer, a Victoria woman has stepped up to volunteer to help a fundraiser to find a cure for the disease.
28.06.2025 00:58 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
A popular beach in Tofino has a newly completed concrete, accessible beach ramp, creating more inclusive access to the beach for visitors and residents.
07.06.2025 23:16 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The province just made hefty cuts to a program that secures lodging for families with sick kids in hospital, impacting many, including a Vancouver Island family that has logged several hospital stays over the years for their son.
07.06.2025 01:59 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 3I have a child with a needle phobia that relies on IV treatments to keep her auto-immune disease under control. My options: travel to Vancouver every six weeks on my own dime and nothing else. The only in community option is a private clinic that can't meet her needs (though they really tried).
05.06.2025 03:41 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
“People do drugs, especially young people. The least we can do is equip them with harm-reduction tools.
Because if there is a chilling lesson to retain from Sidney’s tragic story, it’s this: it could just as easily have been your kid in that dorm room.”
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A drug alert from interior health showing counterfeit dilaudid tablets that tested positive for fentanyl analogues.
Deprescribing, forced tapering, drug seizures, involuntary “care”, and all the other manifestations of criminalization—does not stop people from using drugs.
But it does lead to drug supply volatility, increase risk for harm, and death.
Thread.
#bcpoli
While Pharmacists play a huge role in our health care system, it would have also been nice to have also given the Physicians a shout out on May 1st (National Physician Day).
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“This increased criminalization is going to sweep up my co-workers, both my union brothers and sisters, and those who work cash construction, many of whom got addicted by trying to treat physical pain or mental health problems acquired at work.”
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Poolside snacks for Ume, our endangered tapir calf, to make swim time a little more tempting!
22.04.2025 18:53 — 👍 4937 🔁 538 💬 67 📌 35Absolutely, it is not either or, it is all harm reduction! We are all happy to come to the table.
19.03.2025 03:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dr Kris Vanhaecht speaks at the Quality Forum in Vancouver, BC about improving whole health systems in Belgium.
Dr K Vanhaecht started as a nurse, became a researcher, a patient. He is now leading ambitious quality improvement of whole health systems in Belgium.
It’s inspirational at #qf25 in Vancouver. But seems a luxury when we don’t have enough beds, doctors, nurses, etc for patients.
Www.flaqum.org #qi
Mark your calendars! 🗓️🔴
A total #LunarEclipse on March 13-14 will turn the Moon deep red with the best views from the Americas.
Step outside, take a deep breath, and look up 🔭🧪
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We are Canadian! 🇨🇦
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I just made a donation to Women's Shelters Canada in advance of Canadian Women Physicians Day (March 11) with Canadian Women in Medicine. You can too! #charity #womensshelters #canada
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The world still sits around and watches it happen.
02.03.2025 04:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bryce Canyon National Park 🇺🇲
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Having hard conversations: Advance care planning, serious illness conversations, & goals of care discussions with oncology patients
www.cfp.ca/content/71/2...
This paper addresses some challenges navigating from ACP to get to goal-concordant care, improved QoL
#palliative #goalsofcare #ACP
The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
👏 @drugdatadecoded.ca + @zoedodd.bsky.social 👏
“While they preach the values of treatment and rehabilitation for drug users, they abandon those seeking help—leaving them with long wait times, unregulated facilities, and predatory private operators eager to cash in.”
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A 2021 document obtained by The Breach from the Alberta Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction revealed 41 per cent of youths admitted under the ‘Protection of Children Abusing Drugs’ Act identify as Indigenous.
The UCP's forced abstinence legislation (Compassionate Intervention Act) is intended to be modeled after Alberta's forced abstinence legislation for youth (PChAD Act).
They didn't mention a statistic that should give everyone serious pause: 41% of youth forced through PChAD are Indigenous. 1/
Bottom to top:
Cardinal, Mutable, Fixed
Black Hole Gambar
For further info: www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/resource...
Short-eared Owl - a master hunter of open grasslands.
📸 csanmartinphotography 📸
#Birdoftheday #Owl #Nature #Birds
Inquest scheduled for April into overdose death in University of Victoria dorm room. 18-year-old Sidney McIntyre-Starko died of #fentanyl poisoning, and the slow response to her OD was heavily criticized.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #ToxicDrugCrisis
