-
Sunday House Call, #735, April 19, 2020: A common sense Ontario physician’s services fee code solution is twisted by the Ontario Government into a new chapter of Catch-22. “We are paying our physicians. But there’s a catch. You can’t use the fee codes.” #DoTheRightThing
Sunday House Call, #735, April 19, 2020: A common sense Ontario physician’s services fee code solution is twisted by the Ontario Government into a new chapter of Catch-22. “We are paying our physicians. But there’s a catch.. “You can’t use the fee codes.” The Government of Ontario has expressed gratitude for the services of all…
tagged:
-
The road back will depend on the expertise of physicians like Dr. Fauci and not the Dunning-Krugerites Dr. Oz and his friends at Fox News among others. There is a moral(e) imperative to provide the public with a plan to resume some semblance of our lives.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 17, 2020 Source:Will it really take ‘weeks’ to ease physical distancing? Maybe not Dr. Oz Suggests Schools Should Reopen Because ‘Only’ 2% To 3% More People Could Die The Unholy Alliance of Trump and Dr. Oz
-
Ottawa Public Health official advises people standing in their driveway talking to neighbours 30 ft away not do to so because a “party” may break out. Good for Dr. Etches who stepped in to correct this credibility-damaging overstep.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 16, 2020 Source:Driveway and over-the-fence chats? No problem, says Etches
tagged:
-
PM Trudeau, your flouting of pandemic health policy rules demoralizes the country. Armchair “physicians”, stop flaunting cherry-picked preprint studies as “the” evidence HCQ works when there are just as many that refute it. That is why proper investigation and meta-analysis are required.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 15, 2020 Source: Government’s COVID-19 rules don’t seem to apply to Andrew Scheer and Justin Trudeau“Miracle cure” testimonials aside, azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine probably do not work against COVID-19
tagged:
-
What are some of the ways that asymptomatic people infected with SARS-CoV-2 can spread the virus if they are not coughing or sneezing? This is of particular importance for children.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 14, 2020 Source: Coronavirus: How asymptomatic carriers spread a disease like COVID-19
tagged:
-
Spartan Bioscience receives Health Canada approval of new SARS-Cov2 testing devices. We discuss the implications for public health policy.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 13, 2020 Source:Health Canada approves new rapid COVID-testing kits I discuss these kits with Dr. Paul Lem, CEO of Spartan Bioscience. Interview can be found here about halfway through the show.
tagged:
-
Sunday House Call, #734, April 12, 2020: The Other Curve to Flatten. The Deluge Will Come. Also, please don’t inhale nebulized hydrogen peroxide to treat your viral respiratory infection.
Sunday House Call, #734, April 12, 2020: The Other Curve to Flatten. The Deluge Will Come. The Other Unblunted Curve (published on bourque.com)Other medical illnesses cast aside by the pandemic are set to become the next deluge on our health care system. By Dr. Barry Dworkin Now, Canadian family medicine centers’ infection control measures and…
tagged:
-
No evidence that “immune-boosting” concoctions, supplements, or procedures augment protection from SARS-CoV2. Our immune system can be trained (vaccines and exposure) but not boosted. Keep the quacks at bay and save your money.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 10, 2020 Reference: Boost Your Immune System?The immune system is not a muscle, not a rocket, not a pump, not a balloon, nor anything else that can be inflated, expanded, or launched into the stratosphere simply by adding more power. How to boost your immune system
tagged:
-
The eight seniors who died in a residential home from COVID-19 did not die because they would have anyway. To use this reasoning is a kudo to cognitive dissonance.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 9, 2020 Source:10 COVID-19 deaths connected to Almonte care home
tagged: