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Rural FP anesthetist formerly of Fort St John, BC, Canada. Trained in Aus and UK. Now doing rural locums in Canada. Blessed to live, work and play on the […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://med-mastodon.com/@auscandoc, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 17h

https://www.peacearchnews.com/local-news/delta-to-look-at-getting-into-the-health-care-game-8295131

#primarycare

Delta to look at getting into the health-care business

Council agreed to bring in a consultant to investigate the feasibility of city-owned-and-operated urgent and primary care centres

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Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 17h

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/elderly-eye-patients-forced-to-pay-or-travel-not-to-go-blind-9.6932037

#RuralHealth inequity.

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Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD @christosargyrop.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Ilustrating the consequences of premature closure in medical diagnosis

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Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 17h

https://globalnews.ca/news/11470370/bc-new-law-vaping-product-companies-deceptive-practices/

While a good move it comes as a result of poor initial regulation. Regulate them like cigarettes: make them boring (no flavours), expensive (tax), plastered with warnings.

Or better yet.. go Australian […]

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Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 1d

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/ubc-enzyme-technology-successfully-completes-first-human-trial-for-universal-organ-transplants/

“Their research found enzymes that remove present surface layer A and B antigens, and convert them into O type antigens.”

UBC enzyme technology successfully completes first human trial for universal organ transplants

A new medical advancement out of British Columbia marks a major step towards helping thousands of transplant patients across North America.

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Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 1d

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/10/danielle-smith-announces-plans-to-hold-her-breath-until-she-gets-what-she-wants/ #thebeaverton 🙃

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Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Incoming! #pelicans #cooneybaybc #kamloopslake #birdphotography

Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 2d

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fadear-lake-dam-evacuation-alert-1.7653463

#fadearlakebc

Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Incoming. #birdphotography #kamloopsbc #pelican

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Christos Argyropoulos MD PhD @christosargyrop.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

One cannot avoid brute memorization in med school. For starters, many medical situations require very fast response ie one does not have the luxury of time to think things through. Secondly, the sheer volume of material that one has to master to finish med […]

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Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 3d

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tumbler-ridge-er-closure-protest-1.7651446 #RuralHealth

Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 3d

3. Stop telling patients to ask their provider if you are not giving us something to tell them!!! 😖

Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 3d

2. This is the first and only notification that I have received about the upcoming vaccination programs. Nothing yet from official sources. So if patients ask I have nothing to tell. You can’t even confirm if you are registered or not. You can only apply to register. /3

Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@ChristosArgyrop Thanks.

Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@ChristosArgyrop Do I really have to go look myself … or can you kindly summarize 🙃

Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 4d

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2510318122

“Cultural events, like the #COVID19pandemic, linked to changes in legacy reflections as well. For example, care for close others (benevolence) decreased throughout the pandemic and never recovered, even 4 y after its start.”

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michael @proseandpassion.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

2-Oct-2025
New tiny prehistoric fish species unlocks origins of #catfish and #carp
Western collected micro-CT scans show #saltwater species transitioned to #freshwater

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1100199

#science #evolution #ecology

New tiny prehistoric fish species unlocks origins of catfish and carp

The fossil of a tiny fish found in southwestern Alberta provides new insight into the origin and evolution of otophysans, the supergroup of fish that includes catfish, carp and tetras, which today account for two-thirds of all freshwater species.

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Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 5d

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/proposed-pipeline-scott-moe-danielle-smith-politics-1.7651187

Why do these two think they speak for Canada?

By the same token then it’s not Alberta or Sakatchewan’s oil/bitumen or farmland.

If the majority of the country wants it left in the ground […]

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Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 6d

https://vancouversun.com/news/scale-up-efforts-to-reduce-wildfire-risk-or-b-c-faces-dire-economic-consequences-study

“How many Fort McMurrays can you survive? How many wine industry companies being put out of business by smoke contamination? How many tourism industries? And people moving out of […]

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Eric Vitiello @pixel.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 7d

This is the way.

A post from "sarasyms" stating "This is why I love Portland", with an attached image of a Police unit of some sort standing together in a couple of rows, with two people dressed as military clowns also standing in the rows with the officers as another group of clowns stands nearby.

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Ron Dyck @dyckron.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 7d

You Can’t Run a Tourist Town Without Foreign Workers - Macleans.ca
https://macleans.ca/society/temporary-foreign-workers-bc-canada/

Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 6d

https://www.newsweek.com/cancer-drinking-tea-coffee-improved-outcomes-10810822

Drinking tea and coffee linked to improved cancer outcomes

High intake of the popular beverages appears to be be associated with a 24 percent reduction in cancer progression.

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Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 6d

The remains of the day. #landscapephotography #kamloopsbc

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

The absolute UNIT!

"Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, swept the competition in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first win after narrowly finishing in second place three previous years"

ABC

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Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 7d

https://globalnews.ca/news/11461613/alberta-measles-death-2025/

A child, born prematurely after the mother contracted #measles during pregnancy, died shortly after birth, the province said on Thursday.

Premature baby dies from measles in Alberta as cases throughout province near 2,000

An infant, born prematurely after the mother contracted measles during pregnancy, died shortly after birth, Alberta's health minister said.

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