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Sunday House Call, #859, November 20, 2022: The lack of understanding of what family doctors need to run their practices is on full display from consultants and health-policy experts who have never run a practice let alone treated patients.
Hey! Health policy analysts and consultants, trying to fix the family doctor shortage works better if you take the time to speak to those of us who have decades of experience and expertise in running our practices instead of arrogantly assuming that your academic credentials provides you with insight. You have had 30 years to…
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Quebec to impose fines against those who refuse to vaccinate. @billcarrolltalk and I talk about this issue. Though it may provide an outlet for the frustrated majority, it is generating necessary debate about liberty, legality, and morality.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 12, 2022 Source:Quebec to impose ‘significant’ financial penalty against people who refuse to get vaccinatedTasha Kheiriddin: The unvaccinated must be deterred from harming othersJohn Ivison: Legault’s draconian overreach on the unvaccinated is no cure for the malady
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UK chairman of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation comments on how misinformation has costs lives in Africa and “at some point, society has to open up” but “winter is probably not the best time” to do so.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 5, 2022 Source:Fourth Covid jab: We can’t vaccinate the planet every six months, says JCVI chief
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Ontario Government announces road map to lift all remaining public health restrictions by March 2022. Proof of vaccination may be scrapped before then. Hope there is herd immunity before lifting the latter.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 25, 2021 Source:Ontario restaurants, gyms to return to full capacity on Oct. 25; all other COVID-19 restrictions to end by March 2022
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Quebec Order of Nurses to suspend licences for those members who are not vaccinated against Covid-19 by October 15. The College of Physicians has committed to same for its members.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 12, 2021 Source:Unvaccinated Quebec nurses to have licences suspended Friday, says Order of Nurses
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U.K. planning to give third Covid booster dose alongside the flu vaccine to people over 50 in the Fall. Studies looking at new variant-adjusted vaccine versus existing one to be used in this process.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 5, 2021 Source:All over-50s to ‘get a third Covid jab in autumn’ to stop third wave – so Britain never needs another lockdown
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Preprint study evaluated entire Scottish population and calls into question delaying second Covid vaccine dose up to 12 weeks. After first dose it noted a drop in preventing hospitalization from 84% at 5 weeks to 58% after the 7th. And after 16 weeks?
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 30, 2021 Source:Scotland’s vaccine rollout suggests delaying the 2nd COVID-19 shot is a bad idea Reference:Effectiveness of first dose of COVID-19 vaccines against hospital admissions in Scotland:national prospective cohort study of 5.4 million people
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Alberta may be overselling its best-before date for easing of Covid restrictions. Does the math/evidence support the prediction that “back to normal” will return mid-September?
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 13, 2021 Source:Alberta predicting no more masks or COVID-19 isolation by mid-September
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Funding for proactive approaches to prevent obesity is lacking whereas costs associated for the treatment for the disease are staggering.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 6, 2019 Source:It costs Canada $9B to treat obesity, while barely any money is put into preventative care Reference:The Heavy Burden of Obesity