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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 12/05/2026

Most Ontario-approved medical AI scribes erred in tests: auditor general www.thetrillium.ca/news/health/most… ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Health Minister Sylvia Jones at the Ontario legislature in Toronto on Oct. 25, 2023.

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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 02/05/2026

Mary this is literally how vaccines are supposed to work.

A tweet from yesterday from Mary Talley Bowden.

I’m seeing a pattern in my clinic that we can't ignore. Antibody levels in patients who received the shots are testing 10 times higher than those who didn't. Here is why that spike protein load matters.

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

As seen on r/nursing Alex Pretti's coworkers taking a moment of silence to honor him

screenshot of a reddit post in r/nursing

Photo of a hospital hallway where staff in scrubs stand with their hands clasped and heads bowed

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

"Meanwhile, witnesses said a doctor was at the scene and tried to help the woman who had been shot, but the ICE agents refused to let the doctor in to help. Up to 15 minutes later, an ambulance arrived but was blocked by ICE vehicles that had occupied the street." www.fox9.com/news/minneap...

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Minneapolis ICE shooting: Eyewitness accounts contradict ICE statement

A woman was fatally shot by an ICE officer in Minneapolis Wednesday morning, but witness accounts contradict what federal officials say happened. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey calls the claim the shoot...

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/11/2025

“AI views both suffering and care as computational problems.” 😮‍💨

We risk entering a perverse loop: machines are supplying the language with which patients relay their suffering, and doctors are using machines to record and respond to that suffering. This cultivates what psychologists call “cognitive miserliness”, or a tendency to default to the most readily available answer rather than engage in critical inquiry or self-reflection. By outsourcing thought, and ultimately the most intimate definitions of ourselves to AI, doctors and patients risk becoming yet further alienated from one another.
In this trajectory we can see the evolution of what Michel Foucault described in The Birth of the Clinic as the “medical gaze” – the separation and isolation of the diseased body from the lived experience of the person and their social environment. Where the 19th-century gaze fragmented the patient into lesions and signs visible to the clinician, and the late 20th-century evidence-based gaze translated patients into odds ratios and treatment protocols, the 21st-century algorithmic gaze dissolves both patient and doctor alike into never-ending streams of automated data. AI views both suffering and care as computational problems.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 05/11/2025

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

From the DM’s… Former AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos has filed a response letter. We have received an alleged copy. To say that it has bombshell allegations is a wild understatement. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Kate Sosin @shoeleatherkate.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Some health centers that halted gender affirming care, kept doing nonconsensual surgeries on intersex kids to make them gender-conforming, even though the UN has condemned them 19thnews.org/2025/03/hosp...

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Hospitals that paused youth gender-affirming care continued controversial intersex surgeries, group says

Intersex advocates say that they have been shut out of the conversations about gender and health, even as a recent executive order has far-reaching consequences for intersex kids.

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Nick Mark, MD @nickmark.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Report in NEJM describing the first critically ill adolescent with #H5N1 D1.1 (aka #BirdFlu) in North America. A 13 yo rapidly progressed from mild symptoms to respiratory & renal failure. She survived thanks to IMV + ECMO + CRRT. Scary stuff. 📄 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

France has just had a review of healthcare for young trans people and it has come out entirely the opposite to Cass. But then again the personnel involved had not been specifically selected to arrive at a politically-required outcome. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The most recent international guidelines [12] suggest that GAH should be initiated in transgender adolescents whose gender incongruence has been confirmed according to the criteria outlined in the ICD-11 (Table 1). Additionally, these adolescents should demonstrate sufficient emotional and cognitive maturity to provide informed consent for treatment. Unlike strict age criteria, other factors such as the duration of gender incongruence, medical follow-up history, persistence of transition requests, psychological distress, and the individual's maturity level should be considered when determining the optimal timing for introducing GAH.
In situations where GAH is introduced before Tanner stage 5 (especially when GnRHa has been previously prescribed), suppression can be maintained upon the introduction of GAH to prevent the action of endogenous hormones and the appearance or continued progression of secondary sexual characteristics in the undesired gender.

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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 04/12/2024

Alberta just passed Canada’s most draconian pieces of anti-trans legislation yet. This includes a GAC ban for trans youth, a forced outing “parental rights” law, and a sports ban. On an Erin Reed scale, it makes Alberta the first Canadian province to have “worst anti-trans laws”. (1/🧵)

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

For those who want a summary of what Alberta just announced. It's really, really worrisome. By far the most anti-trans bill in Canada, by a long shot. 1. Ban on all transition-related surgeries until 17 years old. 2. Ban on puberty blockers and hormones until 15 years old.

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zupa grochowa @grochowa.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

how’s reconciliation going in Canada, you ask?

Truth and Reconciliation action so slow, watchdog abandons annual report
Yellowhead Institute says if Canada continues at this pace, it will not finish the work until 2081

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

WSJ ran another "trans kids turn out to be gay" article and this one talking point grinds my gears like nothing else. Yes, they do. But not in the way this headline wants you to believe. Trans young people, overwhelmingly identify as LGBQ after transition. My response 👇 jessk.org/blog/address...

WSJ screenshot "most transgender kids turn out to be gay"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/12/2023

sharing a gift link just because it is worth reading this to see how staggering of a failure this was. basically a “what is he going to do, stab me?” situation www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/w...

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Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago

A blueprint reviewed by The Times laid out the attack in detail. Israeli officials dismissed it as aspirational and ignored specific warnings.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

there is no ethical or justifiable way to bomb a hospital

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

I think part of the despair we’re all feeling is not just the immediate horror of what is happening but it’s the knowledge that all of this will make the next 20 years be like the previous 20, only worse.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

New findings that SARS-CoV-2 can directly infect and replicate in coronary arteries, promoting plaque inflammation atherosclerosis, and cardiovascular risk nature.com/articles/s44...

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 27/09/2023

'Continuous' masking returning to B.C. hospitals, clinics, care homes bc.ctvnews.ca/continuous-m... #cdnnews The most important health news, in one place, at Canada Healthwatch 🍁 canadahealthwatch.ca?utm_source=c...

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