You told me to check out Pandora Avenue in Victoria before leaving Vancouver Island — I did. It’s absolute chaos. People are in deep crisis with mental health and addiction, and it’s heartbreaking. This is not compassion. This is failure. David Eby and the NDP's policies have made this worse. We need real solutions that restore dignity, safety, and hope — for everyone.

👏 Congrats to Dr Brian Kwon on receiving UBC’s top research honour, the Jacob Biely Faculty Research Prize! His pioneering work in spinal cord injury research is driving innovation in science & clinical care. 🔗 bit.ly/4iB7QMe #UBCOrtho #MobilityForAll #StrongerTogether

Frustrated surgeon comment. If ur a surgeon u have an obligation&responsibility to deal with complications related to ur surgery. If beyond expertise, u have obligation to find someone to help. Don’t try to shirk onto others. If u don’t want to do this, then get out of surgery😡

This is chilling & imo undemocratic. The charter just made useless. How can people challenge a concern of government charter breach?This WAS a legitimate challenge in the interest of the public. Ruling went against them, but this ruling means gov. can now operate unchallenged!😱

Telling someone with arthritis to stop exercising is like telling someone with high blood pressure to stop breathing. Move smarter, not less

Ok. Why r specialists offices so hard to contact and communicate with? My MOA (>20 yrs experience) can’t get ahold of one specialist & other referring specialist can’t even tell her if referral was sent (for her daughter). This is sad. We need to do better for our pts.

PSA- if u go to hospital in BC. Roommate may have weapons or drug paraphernalia. Security refuses to remove such items without pt consent. Nurses are scared, but are other pts not also at risk. Come on @bcndp. Keep nurses, staff & pts SAFE! Bizarro world.

PSA. Surrey Hospital doesn’t have specialist pediatric ortho coverage. We r general ortho like every other hospital in FHA. It is waste of ur time & travel & overburdens us and hospital to travel from other catchments for kids injuries. Ortho care is no different!

Free speech is essential for human rights!

Vamos, @RafaelNadal!   As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.   Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.   I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.   And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more.    OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.   We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.   I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.   I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.   And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.   Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.   Rafa that!   Best always, your fan, 
 Roger

No. I’m not a researcher… but there’s a role for folks like me. I’m not planning on running anything, though 🤣🤣 Btw… there is a backstory here. "We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely." E. O. Wilson

Exercise is a calculated risk; stillness is guaranteed decline.

ctvnews.ca/canada/why-a-grou… When health authorities require them, that’s a problem. Employers need to work with and trust their employees. MDs can’t be the arbiter. I 99% write what my patient tells me. I have to trust them.

Sad to learn of the passing of this legend in Canadian sports medicine. We wouldn't have the Vancouver Sun Run and so many other good things without him. gothunderbirds.ca/news/2024/…

Nearly all knees of asymptomatic adults showed abnormalities in at least one knee structure on MRI!!! They even found bucket handle tears ;-) Median age... 44 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…).

Emergency room doctors at Surrey Memorial Hospital have penned a scathing letter to the head of Fraser Health warning that "deteriorating conditions" are "unequivocally leading to substandard care." READ MORE: trib.al/wYZgESD trib.al/wYZgESD

“Mr. Bean” on free speech in UK. Video: @christianorguk

It’s happening again. Inpatient ortho elective surgeries being cancelled for overcrowding. 2 days notice and 5 patients suffering in pain being cancelled. My office scrambling to find short notice day surgery replacements. The system is broken. Our gov has failed us.

Health-care system is 'broken,' Niagara woman says after dad dies suddenly in emergency room. CBCNews. Does anyone actually think this is fixable? Not with aging baby boomers & 1M new 🇨🇦s a year. It will only get worse. Impossible to keep up.

I've been clear - but obviously not clear enough - I don't care about the money - I care about being framed as some rich fat cat doctor (aren't we all) who needs to pay his fair share - as if I haven't been doing that for the past forty-five years. THAT is what I object to.