Family Physician / Retired from NWT & City of Kawartha Lakes FHT / Coroner / Proud Husband and Dad / Grateful to be Fully Vaccinated / Next adventure - Niagara
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Joined January 2016
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Eric Ready retweeted
Doug Ford says that 50% of ER visits are a waste because people should just visit their family doctor. 12% of Ontario citizens don't have a family doctor, and Doug Ford re-introduced sick notes when he was elected, which creates up to 12.5 million unnecessary
Eric Ready retweeted
All of Ontarios medical schools except McMaster require Canadian citizenship or landed immigrant status to apply. It’s gaslighting on an epic scale and few newspapers bothered to fact check.
Eric Ready retweeted
1/There has been a flood of articles about Ontario's new #MAID data and reports released by the coroner this week, most of it based on "leaked" data in an AP article and people who don't know how to analyze observational data.
Here's a 🧵 with the highlights from the report.
Dr Peter Petrosoniak and I worked together in the same Family Health Team. Peter for > 40 years, me for 34 years. I looked for four years. I couldn’t give my practice away, I couldn’t even pay someone to take it off my hands! Family Medicine is certainly not growing.
Ha! I had a 34 year stable practice in a Family Health Team in a small town. Nice office with great colleagues and a hospital across the road. I couldn’t give my practice away for free even with the community providing incentives to potential recruits. I looked for four years.
They are not serious at all… but they are batshit crazy.
The Conservative Party of Canada is not a serious party but one that will cause a lot of damage...
theglobeandmail.com/politics…
Eric Ready retweeted
One of the many ways that Trump harmed America was he made the country more rude and obnoxious. His constant vulgarity and pugnaciousness gave people permission to be awful. And sadly, not just MAGAs. Studies have shown we are all meaner and more hurtful to each other. Trump opened the door to that and the pandemic exacerbated it. It's made life harder for many of us. Try to keep yourselves from behaving like that.
Eric Ready retweeted
Ignore Lilley, read Moscrop.
The Ford government gets deservedly taken out to the woodshed in this piece by @David_Moscrop.
Read and RT #onpoli
tvo.org/article/the-greenbel…
Eric Ready retweeted
So, Lanark County is now facing a Coronial crisis not of their making.
The Office of the Chief Coroner has demanded that every Coroner commit to being on call for absolutely no compensation. None. Nil. Zilch.
Eric Ready retweeted
Dr. Jean Marmoreo, a nurse and family doctor, writer, athlete, advocate, adventurer, and one of the country's first practitioners of #MAiD, appointed to the #OrderOfCanada. dr-jean.com/about-dr-jean via @Bob_Ramsay
Eric Ready retweeted
Too many women aged 40-49 are refused a mammo requisition in provinces where you need one. It's time for @cantaskforce to provide clear messaging to Fam Docs and NPs: the choice to screen is a woman's. The message has been lost! healthydebate.ca/2023/06/top…
Amazing considering the MPP for Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock is a longtime Conservative and former Minister of Labour in the previous Ford government and a retired ICU nurse!
Eric Ready retweeted
Providing healthcare coverage to those uninsured was a great decision.
400,000 services were provided by 7000 MDs to patients in need, many of whom qualify for OHIP but barriers prevent them from getting a card.
The program should be continued and improved upon, not cancelled.
Retweet this if you think the Ontario government should immediately reverse their cuts to healthcare for uninsured people. #Healthcare4All
Eric Ready retweeted
Retweet this if you think the Ontario government should immediately reverse their cuts to healthcare for uninsured people. #Healthcare4All
Eric Ready retweeted
Only 260 family medicine spots unmatched...
This should be of significant concern at a gov't level.
Primary care matters.
But tbh as I watch my wife and my dad, both family MDs, work late into the evening to "catch up" on paperwork...the # of spots unmatched isn't surprising
Unfilled positions from the 1st iteration of the 2023 R-1 Match have now been posted. Access them here bit.ly/3JWwSHd #CaRMSMatch
Eric Ready retweeted
Wake up call for Family Medicine in 🇨🇦.
Oodles of unmatched residency spots.
Hope it’s not writing on the wall. We need to decide what we value. And fast.
