“It has driven me crazy in the past six years that governments are just oblivious to history. We know that the #tobacco industry lied through their teeth for decades. The lead industry did the same. The asbestos industry did the same. The plastics industry has done the same. The #pesticide industry has done the same.” #climateemergency#healthemergency#lobbys#climatecrisisisahealthcrisis
I always wondered, why not increase enrollment in medical schools to address the doctor shortage. Seems the bottleneck is with residency programs.
"Addressing the doctor shortage requires a multi-pronged approach, including increasing federal support for GME, which until December 2020 remained effectively frozen since 1997." https://www.aamc.org/news/gme
" With #smoke from hundreds of #wildfires continuing to threaten major North American cities, #Canada's leading health associations are issuing a call to the new federal Minister of Health #MarkHolland to treat the #climate crisis as a #HealthEmergency."
#Signalboost#healthemergency One of the many casualties of losing the Birb site is reach for calls for assistance so I’m going to be boosting calls out here when I can. One of my former editors, Alison Tyler, is in caregiver hell and their insurance keeps screwing them over. She’s fundraising for a hospital bed for her husband, a survivor of multiple strokes: https://ko-fi.com/alisontyler
In Phoenix we are now in a crisis. I see it because my son is in ER and there are 100 patients now. 50 waiting to get from the lobby into the ER. 30 of 50 IN the ER are waiting to be admitted to a room. There are no beds available on a ward. ER doc just told us there are ER patients with kidney failure and cardiac crisis in ER and can’t get to a room. We know that my son may be kept in ER for another 24 hours unless they can break his 5 day migraine. #Phoenix#HeatWave