A good chunk of MSS Charlottetown at the Moncton Highland Games tournament (which had to move inside due to rain.)Looking forward to getting beaten by some very amazing fencers.

Canadian Physicians Fight the Good Fight on Social Media medscape.com/viewarticle/can…

My department has seen extra heavy volumes lately & tourist season has barely begun. The eternal problem of health services in beautiful places is that they’re structured around the resident population. We have a population of 170k… but had almost 2M tourists last year.

A medical miracle. Diphtheria is the child strangler. It strikes unvaccinated kids with 30% mortality. 84% of kids worldwide are vaccinated. It's 1st use was in 1913. The 1901 Nobel went to von Behring's work on the antitoxin and vaccine. 41 million lives saved since 1972.

Good afternoon prepping the gardens. Jedi tried to help. We thought the bee was dying. Nah, she was asleep. Woke up and flew off.

For supper I made bolón de verde, which is an Ecuadorean snack/breakfast food that we all really like. (Filled with cheese and leftover beef birria, since I had some.) Kade opened his up and filled it with mayonnaise. This feels deeply wrong.

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Emergency physicians lead the league in burnout—but when they quit, it’s often for another reason healthexec.com/topics/health…

Very much looking forward to seeing the Island film community getting involved in such a major project.

If you’re a clinician who documents in medical charts, please read this powerful essay by @HannahRAbrams

I’m post night shift so even though I summoned the energy to make birria, somehow the effort of making corn tortillas felt like too much so I used mini flour tortillas I had on hand to make quesabirria. Still incredibly yummy but I feel like I betrayed my recipe…

Had an impromptu fight afternoon at Victoria Park and Rhys came along. He took some videos and photos, most of which are all of us at weird angles. But this is what I look like in (most of) my fight gear. That’s my Sigi longsword.

Have an extra teen in the house this weekend for exam studying so I’m keeping them well supplied with snacks. Homemade queso dip and salsa is way, way better than store bought.

This little guy is curious about me but has relaxed enough I can get pictures of him while he’s perched. We have a ton of hummingbirds but many are uncomfortable perching to eat if I’m near the feeder. I had my phone less than a foot from this guy.

#HappyEmergencyMedicineDay to all of my wonderful colleagues who keep the light on in the lighthouse.

Today is National Emergency Medicine Day! Staff in emergency departments deal with scores of difficult medical and social problems, often at a great cost to their health and physical safety Thank you to all emergency department staff for the valuable work you do.

Emergency departments across Canada are seeing rising abuse, threats, harassment and assault directed at health care workers. Violence is not part of the job. It is unacceptable – and preventable. This International Emergency Medicine Day, the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians, Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, and National Emergency Nurses Association are calling for a national approach to violence prevention that protects patients, nurses, physicians, paramedics, and all health care workers. Canada already has a roadmap. The 2019 HESA report recommended: • A national public awareness campaign • A pan-Canadian framework to prevent violence in health care • National standardized data collection on workplace violence It’s time to act on those recommendations. #InternationalEmergencyMedicineDay #EndViolenceInHealthCare

CAEP position statement on violence mitigation caep.ca/wp-content/uploads/2… @CAEP_Docs @OntariosDoctors