So in ten minutes the evil genius who is one of our GP anaesthetists (with a PhD in diaphragmatic mechanics) increased our rural hospitals ventilator capacity from one to nine!!!
alan drummond
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alan drummond
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M.D.,C.M @mcgillmed, Rural Physician, Retired Coroner, Emergency Medicine Advocate, Underemployed Sommelier (DipWSET)@ACSomm and Father of Triplets.
Perth, Ontario, Canada
Joined February 2012
- I am 66 years old. I have heart disease. I am still working in the ER. I am seeing patients with Covid. I am at higher risk but love my job and my community. I deserve a safe work environment. I deserve to be protected. There is no vaccine in sight. #stillwaiting #novaccine
- I tend never to vote Liberal but somebody leaving a lucrative business career to run to be Prime Minister during a national crisis hardly sounds like someone putting himself first. Just how dumb do you think Canadians are?Pierre Poilievre: "Carney puts himself first. Conservatives will put Canada first."
00:00 - Our local radio station in Perth, Ontario now plays the national anthem every day at noon. I love that and right now, and in this time, it brings a tear to my eye every time.
- Wow! My wife, who was born in Canada, has woken up with that determined look on her face, that I occasionally see and am usually afraid of, and has announced "we're buying Canadian!" Mr. trump. You have pissed off my wife. Be very afraid.
- I typically vote Conservative, and I won't apologize for that but in the case of Mr. Poilievre I simply can't. For some reason I have a visceral dislike for him. In fact, I can't stand him.Worsening feelings for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre are helping push Canadian voters towards the federal Liberal party, a new poll suggests. trib.al/xub3Urs
- And in other news.... After being a physician for 47 years and being a Family Physician in Perth for 42, I have decided to finally retire.
- Actually, it feels like a very good start. Sends a strong message, one, that as a Canadian I am happy to see. Fuck Trump.Why would his first trip not be to visit Trump. The trade war is the single biggest threat to Canada in decades and he decides to shuffle off to Europe? Not off to a good start.
- Just a brief note to say "thank you" for all the positive messages about this very negative story
- Premature triplets - high risk pregnancy, prolonged hospitalization with preeclampsia before birth, multi-month stay in a neonatal ICU - not one thin dime. Thank you, Canada (and God Bless my Wife).
Better health coverage? If Canadians became U.S. citizens they would lose their free health care, pay nearly three times more for their prescription drugs, and many of them wouldn’t be able to get coverage at all. Something tells me they won’t be interested. - Jesus! When a man of the cloth calls you a liar, I guess you are.
- Reflections on today's ER shift which proved to be COVID Central: This is far from over.
- A physician for 43 years, an emergency physician for (no mumble) forty two years. I would have walked through a minefield on my ass to get my first vaccination and now I am the proud owner of three Moderna vaccinations. Thank you science. #GetVaccinatedPlease
- Reading a lovely book on the Liberation of Paris in 1944. It doesn't end well for Nazi collaborators. Here's looking at you Kevin.
