David Carr
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David Carr
@davidcarr333
Professor of Emergency Medicine. Old fashioned bedside clinical educator & lover of almost all sports. My views are mine & don’t represent the views of my work
Joined February 2014
- Police escort to work. This is nuts. Speechless.
- I tweeted about strep today. It seems like the feeling of “I have strep” seems to be a common presentation of Omicron. Minimized is the loss of smell and taste from the prior variants. Take a scratchy throat seriously. This is likely your initial presentation of covid
- If you are offered Pfizer for you booster, take it. If you are offered Moderna for your booster, take it. Win win. I am hearing from people who are bothered by this and are thinking of delaying. Don’t delay.
- The way I look at it is actually quite simple. Pay nurses whatever it takes to stop them from going part time, moving provinces or countries or going agency. Repeal 124. Create a new pay equilibrium. Magically our ED’s and floors will have the nurses to take care of patients.
- There is a major problem right now in hospitals. They are full. Covid is not directly driving this bus. General medicine floors are full with backlog from covid delayed care and an aging population that needs further care. Long road ahead. Creative solutions needed.
- I have become a pediatrician. It’s crazy the disproportion of children I see at an adult based emergent department. What’s even crazier is the fact that none of these parents have access to liquid Tylenol or Advil for their kids fever.
- How come it is common courtesy for parents to send kids to school without peanut butter on their sandwiches but the same people don’t have the courtesy to get themselves or their kids vaccinated and send them to school?
- When a 55 year old promptly signs in at 810 this am to get a booster and gets an appointment January 21st. This is not happening soon enough.
- A fundamental problem in health care right now is that patients no longer respect health care workers or their knowledge. Covid is severing the HCW-patient dynamic. This will be harmful to all the parties involved. We will need to revisit boundaries and tolerance for abuse.
- When I call high risk patients with COVID, I am so relieved when I hear they had a prior vaccine. If it is one dose or two, Pfizer or moderna, time and time again, their symptoms seem milder. In some cases, it likely saved their life. Get vaccinated when you have the chance.
- Is it just me or do others feel like Ontario just wiped out virtual care and replaced it with allowing pharmacists to prescribe medications for “13 common ailments”?
- I keep seeing VIRTUAL CARE patients receiving Z-PACKS for covid pharyngitis. They are coming in droves. Please stop this insanity. This is bad care. This is bad medicine.
- It is kinda comical that a few strip clubs are mandating vaccinations for their clients and employees yet hospitals are not.
