Raghu Venugopal MD
@raghu-venugopal.bsky.social
Emergency Medicine
Despite the author's vested interest, micromobility makes sense. It's illegal in Toronto. With bylaws, mandatory helmets and maximum speeds, they reduce congestion, reduce pollution, less costly and help people. But in ER, we see many serious injuries.
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December 5, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Despite the author's vested interest, micromobility makes sense. It's illegal in Toronto. With bylaws, mandatory helmets and maximum speeds, they reduce congestion, reduce pollution, less costly and help people. But in ER, we see many serious injuries.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Medicine is political in this "post-truth" era where some cannot agree on basic facts. If you believe in any modern healthcare at all - by far the most proven and safest intervention is vaccination. Solid op-ed by @manishakrishnan.bsky.social
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December 5, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Medicine is political in this "post-truth" era where some cannot agree on basic facts. If you believe in any modern healthcare at all - by far the most proven and safest intervention is vaccination. Solid op-ed by @manishakrishnan.bsky.social
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Nasal injury with misalignment. When I first started these were an ENT outpatient referral of unclear date. With time, I started doing them under procedural sedation. Now I am doing cases with effective pre-procedural analgesia. The patient breaths better, looks better and can still have follow-up.
December 5, 2024 at 10:28 AM
Nasal injury with misalignment. When I first started these were an ENT outpatient referral of unclear date. With time, I started doing them under procedural sedation. Now I am doing cases with effective pre-procedural analgesia. The patient breaths better, looks better and can still have follow-up.
Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford nails it that Trump is just still upset after we burned down the American White House 212 years ago.
December 4, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford nails it that Trump is just still upset after we burned down the American White House 212 years ago.
There are humanitarian emergencies that dominate the news and others with far more humans affected which get paltry attention and support - like Sudan. "People from all walks of life must push our governments and global bodies."
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December 4, 2024 at 11:37 PM
There are humanitarian emergencies that dominate the news and others with far more humans affected which get paltry attention and support - like Sudan. "People from all walks of life must push our governments and global bodies."
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I did my residency in Quebec, work in the publicly funded system in Ontario, overseas with MSF and remain in the public system. I didn't feel part of Quebec society, an outsider, while speaking French and from eastern Canada. I support barring MDs from profiteer work. @picardonhealth.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 8:34 PM
I did my residency in Quebec, work in the publicly funded system in Ontario, overseas with MSF and remain in the public system. I didn't feel part of Quebec society, an outsider, while speaking French and from eastern Canada. I support barring MDs from profiteer work. @picardonhealth.bsky.social
"There’s a phrase in provincial auditor general Shelley Spence’s report that could, by now, serve as a slogan for Doug Ford’s government: “Without proper planning".... an all-purpose description of The Doug Ford Way." - by @thekeenanwire.bsky.social
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December 4, 2024 at 11:37 AM
"There’s a phrase in provincial auditor general Shelley Spence’s report that could, by now, serve as a slogan for Doug Ford’s government: “Without proper planning".... an all-purpose description of The Doug Ford Way." - by @thekeenanwire.bsky.social
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Americans: Canadians have 4 words for you: Vietnam, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq.
December 4, 2024 at 1:20 AM
Americans: Canadians have 4 words for you: Vietnam, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq.
If President-Elect Trump wants Canada to be the 51st US state he will have to contend with NATO Article 5. I hope all NATO nations would join Canada in its armed resistance to an American invasion. You may laugh, but this is not funny for Canadians.
December 3, 2024 at 4:47 PM
If President-Elect Trump wants Canada to be the 51st US state he will have to contend with NATO Article 5. I hope all NATO nations would join Canada in its armed resistance to an American invasion. You may laugh, but this is not funny for Canadians.
"Without proper planning" and "without a needs assessment" - that is the determination of the Ontario Auditor General on the creation of Ontario HART Hubs. Our tax dollars and human lives in play.
December 3, 2024 at 4:37 PM
"Without proper planning" and "without a needs assessment" - that is the determination of the Ontario Auditor General on the creation of Ontario HART Hubs. Our tax dollars and human lives in play.
December 3, 2024 at 4:31 PM
In a consistent policy pattern of introducing harms to Ontarians without effective mitigating strategies (like liberalization of alcohol) the Auditor General rips Ontario's Health Ministry for lack of basic planning.
December 3, 2024 at 4:14 PM
In a consistent policy pattern of introducing harms to Ontarians without effective mitigating strategies (like liberalization of alcohol) the Auditor General rips Ontario's Health Ministry for lack of basic planning.
Ontario's Auditor General rips to shreds the dangerous and deadly policies of the Ford Conservative Government.
December 3, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Ontario's Auditor General rips to shreds the dangerous and deadly policies of the Ford Conservative Government.
"In a scathing annual report to the legislature Tuesday, auditor Shelley Spence also found Ford’s decision to close 10 supervised drug consumption sites near schools and daycares was made “without proper planning.” - An unprofessional, uncaring and disorganized government.
December 3, 2024 at 4:05 PM
"In a scathing annual report to the legislature Tuesday, auditor Shelley Spence also found Ford’s decision to close 10 supervised drug consumption sites near schools and daycares was made “without proper planning.” - An unprofessional, uncaring and disorganized government.
Promise made. Promise broken. Ontarians don't forget easily the Premier Ford of 2018. The Premier of small things like bike lanes, liquor paper bags and $200 bribes before the Spring election. This is what matters to regular Ontarians.
December 3, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Promise made. Promise broken. Ontarians don't forget easily the Premier Ford of 2018. The Premier of small things like bike lanes, liquor paper bags and $200 bribes before the Spring election. This is what matters to regular Ontarians.
MPP Dr. Adil Shamji said Liberals' plan is "dramatically different" - they promise people their own family MD close to home within 4 years, while the government is promising to connect everyone to "more convenient primary health care within the next five years." By @jessiecatherine.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 2:17 AM
MPP Dr. Adil Shamji said Liberals' plan is "dramatically different" - they promise people their own family MD close to home within 4 years, while the government is promising to connect everyone to "more convenient primary health care within the next five years." By @jessiecatherine.bsky.social
Leader Crombie - don't poach MDs from other nations - they need them. Repeal Bill 60 privatizing our healthcare system and Bill 7 on ALC patients. Enact Ontario 173 on IPV and Dr. Shamji's excellent Bill 203 bringing NPs into OHIP. @bonnieforontario.bsky.social
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December 2, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Leader Crombie - don't poach MDs from other nations - they need them. Repeal Bill 60 privatizing our healthcare system and Bill 7 on ALC patients. Enact Ontario 173 on IPV and Dr. Shamji's excellent Bill 203 bringing NPs into OHIP. @bonnieforontario.bsky.social
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The story of Canada despite all our advances is that we have failed to provide the basic medical care to our citizens for the diagnosis and treatment of unforeseen and time dependent illness and injury. Profiteers lurk to capitalize, but if we band together, we can make this work.
December 2, 2024 at 3:32 PM
The story of Canada despite all our advances is that we have failed to provide the basic medical care to our citizens for the diagnosis and treatment of unforeseen and time dependent illness and injury. Profiteers lurk to capitalize, but if we band together, we can make this work.
"A lot of times we don't even hear about the ones that couldn't get care, because they die at home or they have really bad outcomes. My hope is that we're not waiting till people die, till we make these really structural and foundational changes." - Dr. Andrew Park, ER MD and OMA Past-President
December 2, 2024 at 3:23 PM
"A lot of times we don't even hear about the ones that couldn't get care, because they die at home or they have really bad outcomes. My hope is that we're not waiting till people die, till we make these really structural and foundational changes." - Dr. Andrew Park, ER MD and OMA Past-President
I don't blame RNs for leaving ER. It is too violent. A patient who assaulted me goes to court this week. I expect zero justice. The same week I got assaulted, another patient said he would kill me and a family member dropped his shoulder to ram through me. ER is violence. People have had enough.
December 2, 2024 at 3:14 PM
I don't blame RNs for leaving ER. It is too violent. A patient who assaulted me goes to court this week. I expect zero justice. The same week I got assaulted, another patient said he would kill me and a family member dropped his shoulder to ram through me. ER is violence. People have had enough.
CBC's documentation of Ontario being a leader in closed ERs doesn't take into account Minden which lost its ER completely under Premier Ford. I get called "STAT" to bedside routinely and you have to wonder what happens to patients in that community.
December 2, 2024 at 3:05 PM
CBC's documentation of Ontario being a leader in closed ERs doesn't take into account Minden which lost its ER completely under Premier Ford. I get called "STAT" to bedside routinely and you have to wonder what happens to patients in that community.
While Ontario's Conservative government is ripping up bike lanes, liberalizing alcohol and sending out $200 election bribes, ERs see their worst year of closures ever. ER closures did not happen prior to Premier Ford. Second, minutes and hours matter to my ER patients.
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December 2, 2024 at 2:59 PM
While Ontario's Conservative government is ripping up bike lanes, liberalizing alcohol and sending out $200 election bribes, ERs see their worst year of closures ever. ER closures did not happen prior to Premier Ford. Second, minutes and hours matter to my ER patients.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Pericardial effusion. You will hunt down the US machine and look and look and look with POCUS (along with the lungs) - and so many will be negative - until you finally find a patient with a significant one which makes all the negative looks worth it.
December 2, 2024 at 3:40 AM
Pericardial effusion. You will hunt down the US machine and look and look and look with POCUS (along with the lungs) - and so many will be negative - until you finally find a patient with a significant one which makes all the negative looks worth it.
This unauthorized ad campaign in Toronto makes an important point. Ontario Conservatives are forcing safe use sites which have zero mortalities across Canada since inception, into the streets, coffee shops, school yards and alleyways.
December 1, 2024 at 10:47 PM
This unauthorized ad campaign in Toronto makes an important point. Ontario Conservatives are forcing safe use sites which have zero mortalities across Canada since inception, into the streets, coffee shops, school yards and alleyways.
Why I cancelled my X subscription.
December 1, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Why I cancelled my X subscription.