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Michelle Cohen

@docmcohen.medsky.social
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rural Ontario family doc | writer | Family Medicine @queensuhealth.bsky.social | she/her Health equity, health policy, wellness pseudoscience, women's health, history of medicine. 🔗 www.michellecohen.ca

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Marsha (Spooky)🔐 @marsha.bsky.social · 1h
This is important research on systemic racism in maternity care.
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 05/10/2026
Canada finally takes a serious look at Black maternal health, confirming what advocates have been saying for a long time.
cbc.ca
After years of calls for data, study confirms Black Canadians face higher risk of maternal complications | CBC News
The most comprehensive study yet of maternal health in Canada has found that Black Canadians face a much higher risk of serious complications during pregnancy, labour, delivery and postpartum than whi...
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 1h
Canada: moving ever closer to the final goal of 3 gambling apps in a trenchcoat spouting nationalist rhetoric
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 1h
Turns out the real Canadian nationalism was all the gambling apps we sunk our money into.
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 11h
💯 Women are not even people in this worldview - who cares what they think? This is all about impressing other men.
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David Rose Nods 'Yes' in Schitt's Creek
ALT: David Rose Nods 'Yes' in Schitt's Creek
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 11h
We created gyms because muscles became a status symbol. Someday you will flex for the ladies by showing them that you can read.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 12h
It’s well past time for Catholic hospitals to be secularized. Medicare needs to end its uncomfortable affiliation with religious institutions that routinely deny patients essential care, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: It’s well past time for Catholic hospitals to be secularized
Religion does have a place in health care, but only when it applies to respecting rights, not denying them
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 19h
Ok maybe there are times when shaving before a pelvic exam is a good idea.
Tweet from me sent Jan 11, 2020:

Ladies: make 2020 the year you STOP APOLOGIZING to your doctor for not shaving before a pelvic exam.Woman wearing a dress that also looks like a gynecology hallucination with hair exploding from the labia I guess?
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 20h
The lack of male shame around sexual assault is a feature of rape culture.
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 20h
I hate that line too. It's just a way to avoid institutional accountability.
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Damn tired 🍁 @ohcarolinian.bsky.social · 20h
I'm fucking tired of 'This isn't who we are' being used as cover for institutions. It is, in fact, who you are. #rapeculture
cbc.ca
St. FX banner shows more work needed on sexual violence prevention, advocate says | CBC News
A researcher on sexual violence says it's good that people are talking about the inappropriate banner displayed on an off-campus house during St. Francis Xavier University's homecoming, but the conver...
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Vladimir Brichta: Pretends to Be Shocked in Novela
ALT: Vladimir Brichta: Pretends to Be Shocked in Novela
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW: October 17 marks a global event called “Origin,” focused on Earth regeneration. Rather than a movement to directly influence climate policy or polluting companies, Origin promises change through synchronized prayer and body movement. Behind it? A fossil fuel heiress and an anti-vaccine doctor
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Exxon Heiress Aims to Regenerate the Earth With Spirituality
The great-granddaughter of one of America’s wealthiest oilmen has teamed up with an anti-vax doctor.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 05/10/2026
“These for-profit facilities offering MRI and surgical services take in much more funding from the province than they pay out in value to #Ontarians,” says @alonghurst.bsky.social. “And [this does not] lead to shorter diagnostic and surgical wait times...” www.thesudburystar.com/news/private...
thesudburystar.com
Private facilities sucking up money and increasing wait times: Report
At the same time, two MRI machines at Health Sciences North are not being fully used
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Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada @abortionrightscan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Check out ARCC's piece in Canadian Dimension! The government must act now to ensure that unregulated pregnancy centres are not allowed to continue harming people who need prompt and reliable reproductive health care. @canadiandimension.bsky.social
canadiandimension.com
Unregulated pregnancy centres cause lasting harms—we need transparency
Should organizations serving pregnant people be allowed to use disinformation and pressure to prevent them from accessing abortion care? About 160 unregulated pregnancy centres (UPCs) operate across C...
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Good design is rooted in human dignity” -- Spring House, Toronto’s new supportive housing building, sets an important example, tackling homelessness while attending to the details that make a good home, by @alexbozikovic.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
theglobeandmail.com
Designing a solution to homelessness
Spring House, Toronto’s new supportive and transitional housing building, sets an important example of how to serve a marginalized population while attending to the details that make a good home
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Amanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I just filled out my mail in ballot for the referendum and it was SUPER annoying and made me grumpy all over again that we are doing this. These thoughts from last year are ever more present for me when it comes to “staying in Canada”:
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 05/10/2026
Canada finally takes a serious look at Black maternal health, confirming what advocates have been saying for a long time.
cbc.ca
After years of calls for data, study confirms Black Canadians face higher risk of maternal complications | CBC News
The most comprehensive study yet of maternal health in Canada has found that Black Canadians face a much higher risk of serious complications during pregnancy, labour, delivery and postpartum than whi...
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Mallory @this-is-mallory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Paul Saladino’s supplement company has been feeding me nothing but AI slop marketing making fertility claims all week. This isn’t even the worst, there’s one with a whole fucking AI slop song 😅
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 04/10/2026
Counterpoint: science shouldn't be hot.
Kate Beaton's fantastic comic about Tesla refusing to be hot.

http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=61
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes, this is also Ontario's solution too - often presented as a "we're just trying our best in unpredictable circumstances" when, in fact, emerg closures were not a surprise to anyone paying attention.
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naberu 🇨🇦 @handle.invalid · 04/10/2026
The state of healthcare makes me so angry. Pipelines and ad campaigns and referendums and attracting private capital and Canada is so great, but sorry folks we can’t do anything to fix healthcare. Bullshit.
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Francesca Bouaoun @francescabouaoun.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s been two years since Ontario Place West Island was destroyed for a planned private spa. Hundreds of trees were cut down - here’s a snapshot of the many species who lost habitat. 🧵
Side-by-side comparison of a landscape on the Toronto waterfront. In one scene, an island is covered in trees reflected in a still channel of water. The other image of the same place shows a barren stretch land with a pile of rubble in the centre.
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have witnessed incredible and unfathomable delays in imaging and specialist MD consults. We all have in this industry - including sometimes to our own family members. It's sometimes a moral injury to try to provide adequate primary care under these circumstances.
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 04/10/2026
🙏❤️
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Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This right here. All day long. Read this now!!! #Toronto
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yup. But it's been taken advantage of time and time again to harm both health care workers and patients.
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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A very entertaining example of the motte-and-bailey fallacy: Make ludicrous claims in friendly waters, then turn around and tell your critics that you just want people to exercise and eat better!
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ty! ❤️
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🍉 Vancouverismism 🍉 @vancouverismism.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Well worth a read.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Discussed here
sciencebasedmedicine.org
“Health Freedom” Leaders are Health Authoritarians
"The centerpiece of the MAHA and health freedom agenda has been removal of mRNA shots."
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ty!
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Benjamin Boles @benjaminboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is really worth a read
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 04/10/2026
Our system would collapse (even faster than it currently is) without immigrant health care workers. This should be extremely obvious to anyone who thinks about it for even a minute.
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ty. ❤️ It was cathartic for me to write.
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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A great read (sadly).
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 04/10/2026
medium.com
Guns, Threats, and the Clown King of Jewish Safety
It’s been a bad week. It’s been a weird week. I awoke Monday to photos of bullet holes in the beautiful stained-glass windows of my local…
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 04/10/2026
Which anti-vax grifter is Jesse planning to interview next to keep us safe?
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 04/10/2026
I should also mention that health care workers are not legally allowed to simply walk off the job in protest, if that was what Nora meant specifically.
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hope you and everyone else waiting last night were seen, Nora. This system is brutal. Feel better soon.
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 04/10/2026
So that has been happening. Doctors and nurses are burning out and leaving emerg work in droves. And I'm assuming this account is in the city? Rural emergency depts have been understaffed for decades. The bosses don't tend to hire new people though. They just close the emerg.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The South Asian population has become a huge target in Canada by far-right extremists hell bent on “remmigration”. www.isdglobal.org/digital-disp...
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The rise of anti-South Asian hate in Canada
Hate targeting South Asians is soaring in Canada. ISD investigates this trend and key drivers, such as the far-right network known as Diagolon.
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Carmen Celestini @philofwrite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
On October 19th I will be part of a panel discussing Christian nationalism in Canada. Registration is free and available online or in person.
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 04/10/2026
What is he even bragging about? Needing a blister pack because he doesn't know what he's taking and people around him are worried?
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 04/10/2026
Which anti-vax grifter is Jesse planning to interview next to keep us safe?
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Ricochet Media @ricochetmedia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The National Post recently crossed a dangerous line by publishing call for violence against Canada's federal NDP leader. "Avi Lewis is not the threat that needs to be dealt with, Postmedia is." NEW from @smohyeddin.bsky.social who breaks it all down: ricochet.media/media/nation...
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National Post crosses dangerous line by publishing call for violence against NDP leader
Avi Lewis is not the threat that needs to be ‘dealt with’ — Postmedia is
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pronatalism is white supremacy by the way, which is why Black women dying is not just ok, it's part of the plan.
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 03/10/2026
They let a woman die of a completely treatable disease to suit their fascist, pronatalist agenda.
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Clue: Flames on the Side of My Face
ALT: Clue: Flames on the Side of My Face
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 03/10/2026
You're not angry enough at these murderous assholes.
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