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Dr. Lorraine Sharp @heydrsharp

Care of the Elderly MD | Faculty @thenosm | 🧠 Mental health & 🌱 aging well | Health literacy advocate |🚫 Tweets ≠ medical advice | #MedTwitter 🇨🇦

Joined November 2012
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Dr. Lorraine Sharp@heydrsharp
9 Sep 2025
👋 I’m Dr. Lorraine Sharp — Family Physician (COE), Faculty @thenosm, wife & mom raising two tweens in Northern Ontario 🇨🇦.
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Did you know? 🚫 weighted vests on their own have not been shown to reduce falls at any age. 👍🏼 build leg strength, balance, and even support bone density which may help prevent falls PMID: 9467434 #fallsprevention #HealthyAgingMonth #alzheimersawarness #bonehealth
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👋 I’m Dr. Lorraine Sharp — Family Physician (COE), Faculty @thenosm, wife & mom raising two tweens in Northern Ontario 🇨🇦.
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What you’ll find here ⬇️ • 🧠 Mental health awareness • 🌱 Healthy aging & prevention • 💬 Health literacy made simple • ✨ Life in medicine & motherhood I believe better conversations can change our health. Tweets ≠ medical advice. #MedTwitter
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RT @swiftieswanttix: GO
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erastourticketz ❤️‍🔥@erastourticketz
21 Nov 2024
**SELLING** 🩶(1) ticket for Toronto @ Rogers Centre on 11/23/2024; TOTAL: $452 USD PayPal G&S fee 🩶If you’re in or near Toronto & ready for the show, let us know in the comments! 🩶Ticket(s) and price have been verified. *Please no DMs! 🫶🏻
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When I’m not doctoring I’m planning themed dinner parties. Best fun yet thanks to @taylorswift13 TTPD. Celebrating best friends 40th birthday 🎂 @taylornation13
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Biggest surprise tonight was #eminem with #edsheeran — crowd went WILD 🤩 Check out my pics 📸
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#eminem and #edsheeran and crowd goes nuts!!
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Love the idea that compassion fatigue is more the wearing down of reflecting all the suffering around is… and the moral distress of managing our own limits, our system limits… thank you @PEAKMD @OntariosDoctors #beyondburnout
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Loving this opportunity to come check out the North!
Dr. Sarah Newbery 💙💛@snewbery1
6 Jun 2023
General surgery? ER? Peds? Family medicine? Yep! Starting July 1, all residents on visiting electives in any discipline in N. Ont. are eligible for travel and accomodation reimbursement. So plan to come and #testthewaters of N. Ont. w/ @thenosm electives! @NOSMMDworkforce
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“Health Human Resources” is what I hear. All. The. Time.
Susan David, Ph.D.
@SusanDavid_PhD
7 Jun 2023
Referring to people in the workplace as "resources," "assets," or "capital" is dehumanizing. Let's do better. Let's embrace our humanity.
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“The system has made it impossible”… Dr Rose Zacharias 👏 👏 👏 Brilliant and vulnerable opening remarks at @OntariosDoctors Beyond Burnout conference. Thank you @drrosezacharias
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🙋🏻‍♀️ Hear this. Did this.
Andy Vermaut
@AndyVermaut
6 Jun 2023
Andy Vermaut shares:Primary Care in Crisis, Burnout Rampant in Ontario, Says OMA: Burnt out and overburdened by administrative work, 4 out of 10 primary care doctors in Ontario are thinking of retiring in the next 5 years. Medscape Medical… Thank you. medscape.com/viewarticle/992…
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Lots of benefits of saying “no”…. ✔️prioritizing those “yes” things ✔️saving space for “being” not “doing” ✔️holding boundaries
Jimmy Turner, MD
@TPP_MD
18 Apr 2023
Replying to @TPP_MD
“How do I say no?” Like this: 1. “I don’t have the time to do that.” 2. “Right now, my priority is X, I am unable to help with Y” 3. “If you’d like me to add this, which of these other three tasks would you like my to stop doing?” …Or simply “No” (A complete sentence BTW) 4/5
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Jimmy Turner, MD
@TPP_MD
18 Apr 2023
“How do I say no?” Like this: 1. “I don’t have the time to do that.” 2. “Right now, my priority is X, I am unable to help with Y” 3. “If you’d like me to add this, which of these other three tasks would you like my to stop doing?” …Or simply “No” (A complete sentence BTW) 4/5
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Wondering how to be part of the change towards the humanization of medical training …
Doreen Rabi, M.D.@doreen_rabi
18 Apr 2023
Replying to @doreen_rabi
There is nothing humane about medical education. It's expensive, exhausting and demoralizing. Further, despite every med schools statements about the importance of diversity, #MedEd remains inhospitable & out of reach for many equity deserving folx. 5/ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Christina Reppas-Rindlisbacher@ChristinaReppas
18 Apr 2023
Read our new commentary @AGSJournal on the "psychotropic swap" ⬆️off-label #Gabapentinoids and ⬇️ #antipsychotics in nursing homes Out of the 🍳 into the 🔥? Recently highlighted by @GeriPalBlog podcast bit.ly/GeriPalEp255 doi.org/10.1111/jgs.18381 @NathanStall @RochonPaula

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Jane Philpott@janephilpott
24 Mar 2023
268 unfilled residency positions in family medicine in the CaRMS match yesterday. Highest number ever. We have a serious problem to manage together. Why are med students not choosing a career as a family doc (best specialty ever😀)? Many reasons - some of it is on us...🧵
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This #IWD2023, a patient called for me repeatedly “hey sweetheart!”… as I was walking away from his bed after having re-introduced myself as his doctor and checking on his progress.
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Spent 10 min of #InternationalWomensDay doing med staff dishes in our lounge. The irony isn’t lost on me and it was the last time. 😑
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