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Healthy Debate publishes journalism about health care in Canada. Free to read. Free to republish. http://linktr.ee/healthydebate
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 3d
Empowering pharmacists is about more than saving emergency departments – it’s about equity in health care

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Empowering pharmacists is about more than saving emergency departments – it’s about equity in health care - Healthy Debate
Not only did Ontario's move to allow pharmacists to prescribe for certain minor ailments reduce ED strain, but it also reduced inequities in access to care.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 3d
The training gap undermining Canada’s primary care teams

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The training gap undermining Canada's primary care teams - Healthy Debate
While family medicine is exploring how to prepare doctors for team-based primary care, other health professions lack equivalent training requirements.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 6d
Was my wife’s hospital care an anomaly or the new normal in Ontario?

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Was my wife’s hospital care an anomaly or the new normal in Ontario? - Healthy Debate
I had hoped my wife would get timely and dignified care like I'd received in the past. She did not.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 11d
Expanding access to disability supports: the case for impact investing

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Expanding access to disability supports: the case for impact investing - Healthy Debate
Families with children with neurodevelopmental disabilities are often left to pay out-of-pocket for services.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 12d
We are taught to fix the system – then forced to waste time in it

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We are taught to fix the system – then forced to waste time in it - Healthy Debate
Every year, medical students across the country must submit forms verifying their vaccine history – forms that we already submitted last year, and the year before that.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 13d
Trust those who heal, not those who provoke:

A Seuss-style rhyme on the very real harm of health misinformation.

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Trust those who heal, not those who provoke - Healthy Debate
A Seuss-style rhyme on the very real harm of health misinformation.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 13d
"Let’s name what is harmful and who fans the flames, Let’s fact-check the fiction that masquerades as claims.

Because rhymes can be silly, but health isn’t a joke. Let’s trust those who heal — not those who provoke."

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Trust those who heal, not those who provoke - Healthy Debate
A Seuss-style rhyme on the very real harm of health misinformation.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 15d
‘I understand’: Words of empathy that have helped me through residency

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‘I understand’: Words of empathy that have helped me through residency - Healthy Debate
That evening, they walked me past the point we usually diverged and sat with me in my apartment lobby. They sat as I cried. They listened.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 18d
Black mistrust is logical and rational: What public health policymakers must learn from Black communities

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Black mistrust is logical and rational: What public health policymakers must learn from Black communities - Healthy Debate
Black communities do not need more reactive inclusion. We need structural change built from trust, not just crisis.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 19d
Food security is health security: Tackling Type 2 diabetes in Indigenous communities

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Food security is health security: Tackling Type 2 diabetes in Indigenous communities - Healthy Debate
First Nations on reserve have Type 2 diabetes rates three to five times higher than the rest of Canada. Yet, they remain underserved and underrepresented in health policy and decision-making.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 20d
Obesity and food insecurity in Canada: Two sides of the same coin

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Obesity and food insecurity in Canada: Two sides of the same coin - Healthy Debate
Addressing food insecurity and obesity together requires a multi-layered, long-term strategy.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 24d
Financially sustainable and fair: Value-based care a solution to pay disparities and health-care system strain

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Financially sustainable and fair: Value-based care a solution to pay disparities and health-care system strain - Healthy Debate
The gender-based physician compensation gap is more than a workplace injustice – it undermines the efficiency and effectiveness of the Canadian health-care system.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Sep 11
#ScienceMatters

Our statement: Canadian medical, research, clinical & health-care organizations stand up for science healthydebate.ca/2025/09/topi... with @cmadocs.bsky.social @scienceupfirst.bsky.social et al. via @healthydebate.bsky.social

In Canada & around the world, science is under attack.
#ScienceMatters. Canadian medical, research, clinical and health-care organizations stand up for science - Healthy Debate
We all have a role to play in standing up for science. Speak up and share your stories about how false health information is impacting you, Canada and the world.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Sep 11
How Hollywood’s obsession with the ‘Dry Look’ harms men and boys healthydebate.ca/2025/09/topi... by @docmcohen.medsky.social via @healthydebate.bsky.social

"Anxiety over perceived physical flaws is a major feature of the manosphere, as can be seen by the rise of the 'looksmaxxing'..."
How Hollywood’s obsession with the ‘Dry Look’ harms men and boys - Healthy Debate
Increasingly distorted male beauty standards have come to celebrate visible dehydration as a physical ideal.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 26d
Housing the frontline: Solving the health workforce crisis starts with a place to live

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Housing the frontline: Solving the health workforce crisis starts with a place to live - Healthy Debate
To build the strong and sustainable health-care system we need, affordable housing must be treated as essential workforce infrastructure.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 27d
Patient Perspectives: Telling our stories is critical to improving care

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Patient Perspectives: Telling our stories is critical to improving care - Healthy Debate
As a physician, nothing will tell you more than simply asking someone how their illness impacts their lives and listening closely to their answers.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · Sep 10
When patients ask about #psychedelics

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When patients ask about psychedelics - Healthy Debate
Over the past decade, scientific interest in psychedelics such as psilocybin and MDMA has risen, along with recreational use.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · Sep 10
#ScienceMatters. Canadian medical, research, clinical and health-care organizations stand up for science

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#ScienceMatters. Canadian medical, research, clinical and health-care organizations stand up for science - Healthy Debate
We all have a role to play in standing up for science. Speak up and share your stories about how false health information is impacting you, Canada and the world.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · Sep 9
Rethinking mental health and substance use health solutions

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Rethinking mental health and substance use health solutions - Healthy Debate
What if you or someone you know needs mental health and substance use health care right now? Do you know exactly where to go to get what you need?
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · Sep 8
‘And the dead cannot recover’: The fatal consequences of closing Supervised Consumption Sites

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'And the dead cannot recover’: The fatal consequences of closing Supervised Consumption Sites - Healthy Debate
Bill 223 ordered the closure of more than half of Ontario’s 17 supervised consumption sites with no equivalent replacement.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · Sep 5
A poem inspired by University of Toronto medical student Ye-Jean Park's clerkship rotation.

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The Non-Suturable Wounds - Healthy Debate
A poem inspired by University of Toronto medical student Ye-Jean Park's clerkship rotation.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · Sep 4
We can no longer afford the wrong leadership for our medical organizations

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We can no longer afford the wrong leadership for our medical organizations - Healthy Debate
Choose leaders for what they can do, not where they come from. The right competencies will carry the profession – and the health system – forward.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · Sep 3
The MS treatment gap: How costs and outdated policies limit care in Canada

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The MS treatment gap: How costs and outdated policies limit care in Canada - Healthy Debate
Provinces have yet to implement coverage policies that would ensure MS patients receive optimal care.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · Sep 2
Why it’s important Canada accredits its own medical schools

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Why it’s important Canada accredits its own medical schools - Healthy Debate
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · Sep 2
Training more doctors is a start. Let’s make sure our health system is ready for them

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Training more doctors is a start. Let’s make sure our health system is ready for them - Healthy Debate
If we want to build a resilient, equitable health-care system, we need to reimagine how we recruit, train and retain the next generation of doctors.
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