Dr. Brady Bouchard

Canada will recognize Palestine in September, Mark Carney says — Toronto Star The move comes amid increasing international pressure and outcry over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

So proud of Canada! https://apple.news/A65gtka99QbC2oWROoDpSyA

Poilievre pitches letting judges order mandatory addictions treatment Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, speaking in Richmond, B.C., on Saturday, said that a Conservative government would let judges order ‘treatment as an alternative to prison’ in cases of minor, non...

www.cbc.ca/player/play/... Involuntary treatment without medical evidence of benefit is just "jail". I'd respect you more if you were just honest about it: "we want to jail people with severe substance use disorders because we don't like seeing them".

As an addictions physician, the management of presumed opioid use disorder in E09 of #ThePitt is absolutely appalling. Full of judgement, bias, and deception.

Public health plans to cover primary care by nurse practitioners and midwives in 2026 | CBC News Provincial and territorial health plans will cover primary care provided by nurse practitioners, pharmacists and midwives starting next year, federal Health Minister Mark Holland announced on Friday.

In theory I agree with this - private NP clinics should be a no-go. But if designed inappropriately, this could easily mean the death of primary care family medicine in Canada. I'm extremely nervous. #cdnpoli #med www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Report in NEJM describing the first critically ill adolescent with #H5N1 D1.1 (aka #BirdFlu) in North America.

A 13 yo rapidly progressed from mild symptoms to respiratory & renal failure. She survived thanks to IMV + ECMO + CRRT.

Scary stuff.

📄 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

B.C. mayor gets calls from across Canada about 'crazy' plan to recruit doctors — The Canadian Press A British Columbia community's

Another innovative approach for #familymedicine #cdnpoli

I turned my rant

(about being offered a super large amt of money to go work in a “boutique clinic” and how such clinics are making the family doctor shortage worse)

into an oped at Healthy Debate

healthydebate.ca/2024/12/topi...

YouTube video by Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health FULL EPISODE | Retention - Why is it the Key to Recruitment | S05-E05

Retention is the key to HHR / physician recruitment. If we don't focus on retention first (and what's causing physicians to leave), recruiting is a fool's game. #skpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxBg...

After his teenage son died from a fake pill, a Montreal father warns overdose can happen to anyone — The Globe and Mail Christian Boivin’s grief for 15-year-old Mathis and pleas for change shine a light on the increasingly contaminated illicit drug supply

Most Canadians are not aware there is yet another class of opioids, nitazenes, circulating in the illicit supply. These overdoses wouldn’t happen if we had legal, regulated supply. #cdnpoli

Pierre Poilievre would represent Canada terribly on the world stage
There’s an inverse relationship between Canadian pride and favourability of Pierre Poilievre. The Conservative Party leader is only able to appeal to people by criticizing and talking down Canada, the country we love.

US vetoes Gaza ceasefire resolution as Hamas rules out hostage deal until war ends The United States vetoes a UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza, drawing criticism of the Biden administration for again blocking international action aimed at halting Israel's war w...

A resolution put forward to UN security council called for an "immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" and separately demanded the release of hostages.
Only the US voted against the resolution, using its veto power as a permanent council member to block it.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

And "appropriate practice" would be in aggregate: "over time, how are our graduates serving (or not serving) or communities? What are the holes?"

And of course none of this would filter down to "punishment" at any individual level. Grads can go where they want. But if most of your graduates are leaving your defined community, it should be a measured KPI, and things should be adjusted.

I certainly don't have all (any?) of the answers :) But I think it would be important for medical schools to decide what their "community" is (for example, UofA serving NWT education/staffing needs, NOSM serving outside the GTA, etc.). They should be transparent with applicants/graduates.

To be clear, the onus would be on med schools but mostly so that their partners (health authorities, ministries, etc.) are incentivized to help them out. They certainly cannot be expected to achieve these outcomes alone. 4/4

To further emphasize the point, CFPC and RC should include HHR outcomes as core reqs to maintain accreditation. What's the point of a medical school that trains the wrong kind of docs, or trains docs who leave? 3/4

The question for med schools shouldn't be "how well are we preparing doctors for practice?", it should be "how many well-trained doctors are working 5 years out in the communities we serve?" Would align schools, the public, and MoHs 2/4

In context of public health/education systems, why are medical schools not held to account for HHR/retention outcomes? Educational outcomes are table stakes when we have limited training spots and public dollars. being spent. #cdnpoli #meded 1/4