…watch Netflix, get fat and you’ll –Save the NHS™-

The Telegraph- Don’t go on ‘long runs’ during NHS chaos, senior medic warns

People should avoid going on “long runs” to get fit in the New Year amid record pressures on the NHS, one of the country’s chief medical officers has said.
Sir Frank Atherton, Chief Medical Officer for Wales, said those thinking of shedding a few pounds should avoid placing undue demands on medical services as they suffer increasingly from delays, with ambulances facing long queues to admit patients to hospital.

Jean Marc Benoit MD- Canadian Emergency Departments in crisis?

The crisis in Canadian hospitals in 2021/22 does not appear to be driven by more severe illness (except in 20-44 year olds), or by the the number of ER visits, or by the number of admitted patients.

So what is the problem?

It seems highly likely that something knocked Canada’s hospitals’ efficiency off kilter in 2021/22.

Jean Marc Benoit MD- Pediatric virus crisis, Canada, fall 2022?

Ideally, a full look at the pediatric virus crisis in Canada this fall would incorporate ER visits, hospital admissions, and ICU admissions. For some reason, this data is not available in real time – although presumably Ministries of Health have access – so it is rather challenging to contextualize somewhat alarming reports by CBC, CTV et al about the “tripledemic” (RSV, influenza, covid19).

Brian Lilley- Canada takes dark turn in rush to expand medical assistance in dying

JP Sears- Satire, but just barely.

Canadian health care in crisis;

“The Red Cross being called into children’s hospitals in Ottawa, trailers being set up because of the overflow in children’s hospitals in Alberta, children dying because of the flu in B.C. It is clear that this is a national crisis and it cannot be solved at the provincial level,” Singh said in an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson.

Canadian health care in crisis;

A federal body in charge of funding medical research is holding a 90-minute “interactive workshop” on how to create TikTok videos.

Instagram and TikTok for #SciComm is being led by influencer and neurologist Dr. Samantha Yammine who is also known as “Science Sam” online. The event is hosted by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR). 

@PaulMitchell_AB Breaking: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has fired the entire Alberta Health Services (AHS) Board of Directors.

oh, wait…

Maclean’s-  State of Emergency: Inside Canada’s ER Crisis

A few months ago, a middle-aged woman in seemingly fine health came to my ER, feeling under the weather. She had called her family doctor, but he was booked up and couldn’t see her for six weeks. I treated her instead, and when I pulled up her records, I saw a recent scan ordered by that same doctor, the results of which she hadn’t yet learned: cancer, already too advanced to cure. It wasn’t just one tumour; they were everywhere. It was up to me to tell her she had a handful of months, at most, and she should start getting her affairs in order.

National Post- Canadian doctors encouraged to bring up medically assisted death before their patients do

Nobody needs to be a doctor.

Families looking for a physician in Saskatoon are out of luck, as there are currently no clinics in the city accepting new patients.

Clicking on the link on the Saskatchewan Health Authority website that is supposed to provide a list of clinics in Saskatoon which are accepting new patients brings people to a one-page document that recommends every Canadian have a family doctor before saying: “Currently, there are no clinics accepting new patients.”

Dr. Andries Muller, a family physician and president of the Saskatchewan College of Family Physicians, said the lack of family physician services in Saskatoon is the result of a perfect storm of issues.

“There was always a shortage of family doctors, but now with the pandemic and everything else that’s happened, many people were burned out and they just couldn’t work anymore,” he said.

The mainstream media is now finally covering the impact of Canada's euthanasia regime on the disabled. A reminder: this community has been warning of the consequences of this for years, and they were ignored until the bodies started to pile up. pic.twitter.com/Vqb5QMJtaJ

— Jonathon Van Maren (@JVanMaren) October 11, 2022

Rupa Subramanya- Scheduled to Die: The Rise of Canada’s Assisted Suicide Program

In 2017, the first full year in which MAiD, which is administered by provincial governments, was in operation, 2,838 people opted for assisted suicide, according to a government report. By 2021, that figure had jumped to 10,064—accounting for more than 3 percent of all deaths in Canada that year.

There have been a total of 31,664 MAiD deaths and the large majority of those people were 65 to 80 when they died. In 2017, only 34 MAiD deaths were in the 18- to 45-year-old category. In 2018, that figure rose to at least 49. In 2019, it was 103; in 2020,118; and in 2021, 139.

Today, thousands of people who could live for many years are applying—successfully—to kill themselves.

https://twitter.com/benwoodfinden/status/1578484351410790401

Daily Mail- NHS staff are set to join Princes William and Harry in accompanying the Queen’s casket from Westminster Abbey to Hyde Park as nation bids a final farewell Her Majesty

Sun- Manitoba inks three out-of-province deals for hip, knee replacements