Canadian family doc
Joined December 2016
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drherrling retweeted
Read the article by @drherrling, a FP in BC. Then read the thread by @TRexMD780, a FP in AB. Being a female FP comes with its own set of complications, and we all can tell similar stories. 1/
Dear Twitter friends, you need to read this article. Written by a Family Doc in BC, it really highlights the burden female docs face. Do you want to know why you can't find a doctor? This is why 👇
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macleans.ca/longforms/a-doct…
My view on life as a family doctor in BC and as a woman in medicine. macleans.ca/longforms/a-doct…
drherrling retweeted
Your family doctor makes $22 for your visit, and nothing for reviewing labs, letters etc. Some of these visits take 30min or more. No wonder public healthcare is so affordable for the Government, and there is a shortage of family doctors.
Using #Wordle to stay awake while nursing the baby in the middle of the night.
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Family medicine is “like running a marathon”
bc.ctvnews.ca/the-daily-mara…
#everyonedeservesafamilydoctor #bringbackbcfamilydoctors
More on the crisis in BC’s primary care system - an interview I did with @jillreports
omny.fm/shows/cknw-special-s…
drherrling retweeted
As @JillianHortonMD recently indicated; healthcare is like a house of cards. If the base of primary care is unstable, everyone in the system is impacted.
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I am a family doctor in BC. I see 30-40 patients per day (no lunch or coffee breaks, maybe time for a quick run to the bathroom), followed by a few hours of paperwork - charting, lab results, imaging reports, consults, insurance forms, pharmacy queries, urgent calls, etc.
that we have no locums is the same reason that we have fewer and fewer family doctors - $31.62, before tax, isn’t much when you lose 30-40% to overhead and it is far, far less when you consider the vast number of unpaid hours that keep us from our families and our sleep.
Please read this. Please act now. Please stay home. This is in your hands (so keep them clean!). #socialdistancing #COVIDCanada #COVID19
drherrling retweeted
Our govt’s should be doing whatever they can to penalize the USA fiscally until their govt stops tearing innocent migrant children away from their parents & detaining them in camps.
The entire G6 needs to grow a major pair of balls.
Enough.
drherrling retweeted
Forcibly separating migrant children from their parents is not a deterrent, it's state-sanctioned child abuse, by @picardonhealth theglobeandmail.com/opinion/… via @GlobeDebate
