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Christopher Hicks
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Christopher Hicks
@HumanFact0rz
Emergency physician and TTL @UnityHealthTO; Chief Creative Officer @AdvPerformHD; Sperate miseri cavete felices; He/Him
- For those who are using the tragedy at #YongeandFinch to peddle their anti-immigrant, anti-muslim sentiment on social media: that is never what Canada will be about. Put your hate aside, and set your thoughts to where they should be now: with the victims and their families.
- We're open. A brand new trauma bay at @UnityHealthTO, with new workflows, new equipment and logistic solutions, new tools to promote teamwork and safety. Purposely designed, extensively tested, revised with end-user feedback. A trauma care environment like no other.
- I see opioid overdoses in the emergency department every day. Likewise I see the lives saved by safe injection sites and community naloxone programs. It’s hard to know if what’s on display here is ignorance, stupidity, or just a willingness to play politics with people’s lives."The media want to make it sound like there is a constitutional obligation that we allow these drug dens anywhere they want to go up. That is not true." Poilievre gets into a heated exchange with a Globe and Mail reporter about injection sites.
00:00 - We are in the midst of a catastrophic health systems failure in Canada. Consider this: the emergency medical care I can offer today is demonstrably inferior to that of just 10 years ago. The avoidable harm to patients and moral injury to providers is truly unforgivable.
- Hydralazine: When you want to drop blood pressure by you don't care how much over who the F knows how long.
- As seen on the XR table at the Whistler Health Centre. Really interesting idea, CC: @DrCarolynSnider
- A wee thread on why the words “drug seeker” should never appear on any patient’s ED chart, ever. And yes EM people, we are probably the worst at throwing this spurious label around where it doesn’t belong 1/n
- Picture a commercial airliner taking off with a 33% reduction in flight crew, with 70% of the seats occupied by passengers unable to de-plane when they were supposed to, saddled with outdated IT systems and under major construction. That’s how emergency medicine feels in 2021.
- Dear CPOE: If I’m ordering a non-contrast CT scan: 1. You don’t need to ask me if the patient is diabetic 2. You don’t need to remind me there’s no creatinine on record 3. You don’t need to ask me both of those things THREE TIMES for the same series of CTs Also I hate you.
- I don’t know why I feel need to respond to this garbage. But if I may be the reasoned voice of arbitration for a moment: The present collapse of our health care system was predestined and preordained, well before COVID. Everyone on the inside could see it coming. Everyone. 1/
- Working with a great EM resident today, and had a great shift — right up until the end, when a consulting services with a bad attitude damn near derailed the whole thing. My suggestions for avoiding conflict over the phone were: (1/3)
