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Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · 18 m

Building capacity to attach all Ontarians to primary care: The Patient Core Team healthydebate.ca/2025/07/topic/…

HealthyDebate's tweet card. As the province works toward attaching all Ontarians to primary care, it’s time to re-imagine how we build teams to support this new objective.

Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · Jul 24

‘Good hands for a woman’: Study exposes gender bias in surgery healthydebate.ca/2025/07/topic/…

HealthyDebate's tweet card. Deeply ingrained gender biases within surgery are discouraging women from entering the field, according to findings in a new McGill University study.

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Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · Jul 23

Rethinking our stewardship of patient health data in the age of AI healthydebate.ca/2025/07/topic/…

HealthyDebate's tweet card. Patients deserve to benefit from the power of their data, but they also deserve to know, to choose, and to trust.

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Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · Jul 22

Calgary has won its latest skirmish, but the fluoride battle isn’t over healthydebate.ca/2025/07/topic/…

HealthyDebate's tweet card. Medical experts agree that fluoridation is a safe, effective way to help prevent tooth decay. Yet, strong opposition to the measure persists.

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Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · Jul 21

Beyond funding: Why money alone won't save #primarycare healthydebate.ca/2025/07/topic/…

HealthyDebate's tweet card. As a physician, increased funding alone may not be sufficient to address the depth of our current crisis.

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Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · Jul 17

Health care’s domino effect: Turning challenges into building blocks healthydebate.ca/2025/07/topic/…

HealthyDebate's tweet card. The very system meant to save our lives is quietly collapsing. This isn’t just a slow-motion crisis. It’s a domino chain already falling.

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Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · Jul 14

Dancing with uncertainty: Finding my rhythm in the chaos of the OR healthydebate.ca/2025/07/topic/…

HealthyDebate's tweet card. As a medical learner, uncertainty is everywhere—especially in anesthesia. But I hope to find calm within the unknown.

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Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · Jul 10

Reassessing #CBT as the ‘gold standard’ of mental health treatment healthydebate.ca/2025/07/topic/…

HealthyDebate's tweet card. With mental health diagnoses on the rise, changes in treatment may be imminent and challenge CBT’s status as the “gold standard.”

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Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · Jul 9

Provinces smoothing the road for U.S. doctors to come to Canada but Ottawa must do more healthydebate.ca/2025/07/topic/…

HealthyDebate's tweet card. Canadian provinces have supercharged their efforts to recruit U.S. health-care workers, taking advantage of the political tumult down south.

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Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · Jul 8

Beyond the signature: Is consent truly informed? healthydebate.ca/2025/07/topic/…

HealthyDebate's tweet card. Moving forward, making informed consent truly informed – rooted in both equity and accessibility – needs to be a priority, not just an ideal.

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Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · Jul 7

Healing the healers: Servant leadership and moral injury By @AlykhanAbdulla healthydebate.ca/2025/07/topic/…

HealthyDebate's tweet card. In medicine, service and skill are not opposing forces. They’re inseparable. One without the other leads to harm. Together, service and skills just might help us heal.

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Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · Jul 3

Ontario is getting $7B from the tobacco settlement. Why the silence on where it’s going? healthydebate.ca/2025/07/topic/…

HealthyDebate's tweet card. After an Ontario court approved a $32.5 billion big tobacco settlement, one question looms large – why has Ontario been silent on its plans for its share of this money?

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Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · Jul 2

Approved but denied: Canadians with neuromuscular diseases face unequal access to treatment healthydebate.ca/2025/07/topic/…

HealthyDebate's tweet card. We are told health care in Canada is equal for everyone. But it is not. What you get depends on where you live.

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Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · Jun 30

Fluoride IQ studies relying on individual urine measures are worthless healthydebate.ca/2025/06/topic/…

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Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · Jun 26

Is peer-review dead? A scientist’s plea to fix a broken system healthydebate.ca/2025/06/topic/…

HealthyDebate's tweet card. Peer-review may not be over, but the era of exploitative, opaque and corporatized gatekeeping should be.

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Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · Jun 25

Kenya highlights dangers of plastic pollution as Canada awaits court ruling healthydebate.ca/2025/06/topic/…

HealthyDebate's tweet card. As the Canadian government awaits a court ruling on its ban on single-use plastics, Kenya offers a real-life illustration of the severe yet overlooked impact of plastic pollution far from global...

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Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · Jun 24

Patients before paperwork: Leveraging AI as a tool in primary care healthydebate.ca/2025/06/topic/…

HealthyDebate's tweet card. AI and NLP applications are promising adjunctive tools that will help reduce administrative burden and burnout and enhance delivery of patient-centered care for all Canadians.

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Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · Jun 23

Accessibility: The overlooked competency in medical school healthydebate.ca/2025/06/topic/…

HealthyDebate's tweet card. The topic of disability is taught, albeit in a limited way, in our medical schools. Yet, one essential element remains glaringly underrepresented: accessibility.

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Healthy Debate@HealthyDebate · Jun 19

Managing the Pitt. Experts discuss how to cope with the stresses of emergency medicine healthydebate.ca/2025/06/topic/…

HealthyDebate's tweet card. Rates of burnout among emergency physicians are still on the rise. Here's how some experts are managing the stresses of the job.

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Christopher Leighton MD, FRCPC🇨🇦🇺🇦@ccleighton · Jun 18

‘Disability’ glaringly absent from federal cabinet portfolios healthydebate.ca/2025/06/topic/… via @HealthyDebate @ElizabethMay @picardonhealth @LaurenPelley @OntariosDoctors

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