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How dangerous is health #misinformation in Canada? | #CMA https://www.cma.ca/healthcare-for-real/how-dangerous-health-misinformation-canada “many lack access to a #familyphysician, so instead they go online with their questions. What they’re seeing there can lead them astray. Poor access to health care led 37% of Canadians to act on #online medical advice, and 31% admitted choosing it over advice from a medical professional. Among those groups, 23% experienced #negativehealthoutcomes from following online medical advice.”

Choosing Your Family Physician

𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗮 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀
When you’re looking for a doctor for your family, it is important to find someone who knows their stuff and can meet your specific health needs.

#urgentcare #medicalcare #familyphysician
🕿 (303) 688-8666

Learn more: https://www.foundersfamilymedicine.com/

*Me, my Mom & my youngest brother are some of the many thousands of patients in #BritishColumbia who have been on the #WaitingList for a new family #doctor since our previous GPs retired.*

When the province introduced its #HealthConnectRegistry in 2021, we were told this would help #patients to find a #FamilyPhysician.

About 900,000 #BritishColumbians have no doctor, and while the #Health Ministry continues to announce the recruitment of new #physicians, that number has remained fairly constant for years.

Yet the #inability of the Registry to make meaningful progress is only one of its failings.

More troubling is that the Registry makes no attempt to place patients based on their age or #medical condition. This conflicts with one of the basic principles underlying medical practice, that faced with an inability to treat everyone who needs help, those with the most pressing requirements should come first.

https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/editorial-tell-us-where-we-stand-in-queue-for-a-doctor-9358753?utm_source=Times+Colonist+Headline+News&utm_campaign=b06b386dfc-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d22ba5c6e6-a978a9ba3c-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=b06b386dfc&mc_eid=48512ab3b3

#BCpoli #PublicHealth #WeNeedFamilyDoctors #FireBonnieHenry #HealthCareCrisis #BChealthCare #StopEugenics #BCPublicHealth #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #BCgovernment #HealthCareFailures #AdrianDix #BonnieHenry #EbyTheEnabler #DavidEby #FamilyPhysicians #WeNeedDoctors #OathbreakerBonnie #BootBonnieHenry #CDNpoli

Impact of the #FamilyPhysician shortage on #BCspecialists’ health and well-being | #BritishColumbiaMedicalJournal https://bcmj.org/articles/impact-family-physician-shortage-bc-specialists-health-and-well-being “Participants reported an increase in the number of patients who do not have a primary care physician. This has affected specialists’ ability to discharge patients, which has resulted in longer wait lists and a greater work burden. (1/2)

‘I will never go back’: Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job
Ontario is piloting artificial intelligence software to help doctors take notes and reduce the paperwork they have to do. One doctor says it saved her career.
#globalnews #Health #FamilyPhysician #Ontariohealthcare #Ontariopolitics
https://globalnews.ca/news/10463535/ontario-family-doctor-artificial-intelligence-notes/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/primary-care-canada-10-000-canadians-report-1.7125990 "Despite the diversity of the voices that we heard from, it was clear there is so much people in #Canada agreed on. They want everyone to have access to #PrimaryCare," Kiran told CBC News.

"Primary care is falling short. Far too many people don't have access to what is the front door to the health-care system. We're a country of have and have-nots.” #FamilyPhysician

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-student-loan-forgiveness-doctors-nurses-1.7113468 “To draw more practitioners to areas where the shortage is particularly acute, Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault said Ottawa is offering a 50 per cent increase in #ForgivableLoans for #doctors and #nurses who work in #rural and #remote communities.

Boissonnault said up to $60,000 will be forgiven for a #FamilyPhysician or family medicine resident, and up to $30,000 for a nurse or #NursePractitioner with a #CanadaStudentLoan.”

@dangillmor
Just cancelled a subscription. I liked supporting the author, a #familyphysician in #maine like me, so made sure I left a comment on one of hisarticles explaining why I'm no longer supporting him on #substack

@mattotcha
As a #familyphysician , I'd love to try an #AI assistant to help look up information on diagnosis and management. Searching #uptodate #dynamed and #pubmed is very limited and too time consuming for some cases.
Searching on #clinicalkey or #tufts university's library is horribly ineffective most of the time
#sciencebasedmedicine
#evidencebasedmedicine #primarycare #llm #medmastodon

There is an urgent need for #familyphysicians in the interest of universal #healthcare. A separate #familyphysician cadre in #primaryhealthcentres/#communityHealthCentres (CHC) and district #hospitals is needed
https://indianf.com/need-for-family-physician-in-the-interest-of-universal-health-care/#:~:text=There%20is%20an%20urgent%20need%20for%20family%20physicians%20in%20the%20interest%20of%20universal%20healthcare.%20A%20separate%20family%20physician%20cadre%20in%20primary%20health%20centres/Community%20Health%20Centres%20(CHC)%20and%20district%20hospitals%20is%20needed

With significant advancement in #Medical knowledge, having only an #MBBS degree is no longer considered enough for providing optimum care as a #familyphysician
https://indianf.com/need-for-family-physician-in-the-interest-of-universal-health-care/#:~:text=With%20significant%20advancement%20in%20medical%20knowledge%2C%20having%20only%20an%20MBBS%20degree%20is%20no%20longer%20considered%20enough%20for%20providing%20optimum%20care%20as%20a%20family%20physician

#HumanRightd lawyer #JuliusGrey is continuing his battle against #Quebec's #FamilyPhysician allocation system.

He is expected to be heard by the #CourtOfAppeal on Thursday morning in #Montreal in the hope of having the measure declared unreasonable.

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/don-t-have-a-family-doctor-it-could-be-because-you-live-in-montreal-1.6617358

A story on the Canadian #Healthcare Network describes how too much paperwork has lead to family #doctors seeing fewer patients, doctors leaving their practices, and fewer #medical students choosing family medicine as a profession.

The full story is accessible for free to doctors and #pharmacists in #Canada. Here is the first part:

The admin burden that’s really killing family practice, by Dr. Sohail Gandhi.
"On Saturday, I logged into my Electronic #Medical Record (EMR), correctly realizing that if I waited until Monday, the #EMR inbox would crush my sorry soul."...

"Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about the “administration burden” faced by family physicians.

The #Ontario College of Family Physicians estimates family doctors spend up to 19 hours a week on “paper work.” Given there are only so many hours in a week, the more hours spent doing paperwork, the less hours seeing patients.

It also contributes to situations where people just get too frustrated with family medicine, and quit. Data shows 20% of Toronto family doctors are planning on leaving within five years. This bad karma is not lost on medical students, who, as I mentioned in a previous blog—are avoiding family practice like the plague, worsening a crisis that has been years in the making.

But what exactly is this “administration burden?” What’s the “paper work” that is driving us all to frustration? I would argue it’s not paper per se, it’s digital.

That’s not to say there isn’t paper. I frequently get asked for completely pointless sick notes from employers, impractical forms to return to work and seemingly useless—“we agreed your patient was permanently disabled, but we want a one year update to make sure your patient is still permanently disabled” forms from the pointy headed bureaucrats at insurance companies. But I’ve taken a somewhat mercenary approach to those forms in order to keep myself sane.

...I reconcile the fact that these forms are a burden, with the fact that at least I make money out of them. While somewhat unscrupulous on my part, it keeps me from totally blowing my lid whenever I see one of these.

*** No, the real admin burden comes from the completely absurd and unrelenting avalanche of reports/lab work/follow up notes—all of which present to me in a haphazard way, seemingly designed to drive me to psychiatric medications.

I took the Friday of Eid ul Fitr off to celebrate with my family. On Saturday, I logged into my Electronic Medical Record (EMR), correctly realizing that if I waited until Monday, the EMR inbox would crush my sorry soul.

Unsurprisingly, I had a total of 75 labs/reports/messages about patients to review. It wasn’t so much the number of items to take care of, (truly if they were straight forward it wouldn’t have been too bad). It was rather how badly and inefficiently the #information came to me that sucked all of the happiness I had enjoyed on Eid from my spirit.
One method of getting information to me is via a system called Hospital Report Manager (HRM). I look at HRM in my EMR and see a report on a renal transplant patient from SickKids. But the note was “uncategorized” which meant that I had to go into the HRM software and enter the category “nephrologist” in the report. The VERY NEXT report in my HRM in box was . . . the exact same report on the exact same patient, but this time HRM had categorized the report as being from a cardiologist—so I had to go in, change the report once again to “nephrologist” and I now have two copies of the same report.

By the way—SickKids hospital provides exceptional medical and nursing care to my patients, but ever since they switched their hospital IT systems to a company called EPIC there has been no end of issues like this. The only thing that software is epic at is causing physician distress.

That’s not all. HRM has more goodies awaiting for me. There’s a report from my colleague Dr. Collings on his expert management of a wrist fracture on one of my patients. Thorough, comprehensive and well done. Except HRM has auto-categorized him to be a gynaecologist. So yes, I either have inaccurate information in my patients chart, or I go back and re-categorize the report to reflect that Dr. Collings is an orthopaedic surgeon."

...and more...
#Canada #doctors #medicine @medmastodon #MedMastodon #familyphysician #medicaladmin
https://www.canadianhealthcarenetwork.ca/admin-burden-thats-really-killing-family-practice

A day in the life of a General Practitioner - great new article by Ashe Coxon

https://osler.app.link/MEHTbPoiryb

#meded #juniordoctors #medtwitter #medstudenttwitter #medstudent #juniordocs #tipsfornewdocs #familymedicine #familyphysician #medstudents

Global News BC: One month in, nearly half of B.C. family doctors have signed on to new pay scheme https://globalnews.ca/news/9527599/bc-new-doctor-pay-model-uptake/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #newdoctorpaymodel #BritishColumbia #FamilyPhysician #B.c.Healthcare #doctorpaymodel #FamilyDoctor #DoctorsOfBC #Healthcare #doctorpay #Health

This was an encouraging, thorough article on #CFSME .
It surely is a long read, but it needs to be read by every #pediatrics specialist and #FamilyPhysician .
Also #CommunityNurses, and #school personell in contact with patients.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9827635/

#FamilyPhysician

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