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alan drummond

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4 years

So in ten minutes the evil genius who is one of our GP anaesthetists (with a PhD in diaphragmatic mechanics) increased our rural hospitals ventilator capacity from one to nine!!!

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I am 66 years old. I have heart disease. I am still working in the ER. I am seeing patients with Covid. I am at higher risk but love my job and my community. I deserve a safe work environment. I deserve to be protected. There is no vaccine in sight. #stillwaiting #novaccine

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1 year

Just a brief note to say "thank you" for all the positive messages about this very negative story

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@alandrummond2

2 years

Reflections on today's ER shift which proved to be COVID Central: This is far from over.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

A physician for 43 years, an emergency physician for (no mumble) forty two years. I would have walked through a minefield on my ass to get my first vaccination and now I am the proud owner of three Moderna vaccinations. Thank you science. #GetVaccinatedPlease

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@alandrummond2

2 years

I am distressed by all this talk of people being on their own during this next (and last) phase of the pandemic. Let me be clear. You are not alone. Canada's emergency physicians are staffing the department 24/7 and will do our very best to help you navigate the next chapter.

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@alandrummond2

5 months

Feeling extremely fortunate as of five minutes ago. Have been waiting for three weeks for prostate biopsy results and truly reconciled to my fate. Just heard that the biopsy results showed no cancer and I am thankful beyond words.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

So I have hesitated to post this. Last weekend, the child of a friend of mine committed suicide. The child lived in downtown Ottawa. Yes, the child was depressed and chronically troubled but saw the so-called Freedom Convoy as a signal that the end of the world was near.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

So off goes my 94 year old Perth patient - a veteran and a great Canadian -for emergency surgery in Napanee. No surgery available locally, in Kingston, Brockville, or Ottawa. This is ⁦ @SylviaJonesMPP ⁩ ‘ Ontario

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@alandrummond2

2 years

So for those of you who would portray this as fun and games; Bouncy castles, face painting, fireworks and BBQ's, I would like to say to you, on behalf of my friend, a big fuck you.

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@alandrummond2

11 months

Apparently, some basement dwelling keyboard warrior was unhappy when I posted a picture of me during my time in the service. So, just for fun, I'm going to do it again and say that I was proud to have served.

Governor General of Canada

@GGCanada

11 months

"On this Canadian Armed Forces Day, I salute everyone who has ever worn a uniform in service to Canada." Read #GGSimon 's full message marking #CanadianArmedForcesDay ➡

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@alandrummond2

2 years

A heartfelt thank you to those nurses who have come from Toronto to help us out. Forever in your debt.

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@alandrummond2

1 year

He's not my favourite Prime Minister but he is Canada's Prime Minister and he was staying in one of the most expensive cities in the world. Where did you expect him to stay? At a fucking Travel Lodge in Bristol?

Conservative Party

@CPC_HQ

1 year

It’s confirmed. Justin Trudeau spent $6000 of Canadians’ hard-earned paycheques to galivant around London and stay in the luxurious River Suite at the Corinthia Hotel. Sign to make him pay it back:

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@alandrummond2

2 years

I was recently and briefly approached by the CBC to come on a national radio show on ER wait times. I painted a national portrait that was decidedly bleak and not very reassuring.

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@alandrummond2

1 month

Here's the thing. I love this show. Watch it all the time. Every politician who has ever been on it has had the good grace to laugh at themselves. With Mr. Poilievre, not a fucking chance. Tells me all I need to know.

Dean Blundell🇨🇦

@ItsDeanBlundell

1 month

🚨The Extended cut of @PierrePoilievre VS @22_Minutes reporter Dan Dillabough stealing PeePee's soul is the most devastatingly funny shit you'll ever watch. Hands down. PeePee on the spot is #NoBueno .😂😂😂

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@alandrummond2

2 years

Fire Sylvia Jones.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

So the five day closure of the Perth ER has now surpassed ten days with no definitive end yet in sight. This is @fordnation 's Ontario where the most basic of societal needs are unmet and our political "leaders" hide.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

In loving memory of my beloved child and partner in crime. She died six years ago; it feels like yesterday. Longing for the day that we will all be reunited. Lives Lived: Hilary Drummond, 28 /via @globeandmail

Lives Lived: Hilary Drummond, 28

Triplet, teacher, cancer warrior, lover of life. Born on May 2, 1987, in Ottawa; died on Jan. 28, 2016, in Perth, Ont., of metastatic breast cancer, aged 28.

www.theglobeandmail.com

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@alandrummond2

1 year

The provinces have failed. Canada needs nationalized health care

OPINION: Provincial governments are incrementally privatizing the systems they’ve broken. It’s time to consider something bold.

www.tvo.org

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@alandrummond2

1 year

So this piece of work has the tears of thousands of Canadians on her shoulders. Her little trucking Freedom convoy caused the suicide death of a friend's daughter. Those tears are perhaps more significant.

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@alandrummond2

3 years

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the death of my beloved child. I was so much the better for knowing such a remarkable woman; I am broken and lost without her.

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@alandrummond2

9 months

Doug Ford must resign

Opinion | Doug Ford must resign

Over a year into the pandemic, things are worse in Ontario than they have been since it began.

www.washingtonpost.com

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alan drummond

@alandrummond2

2 years

Carleton Place ER closing tonight and again and unexpectedly. Three ERs closed in Eastern Ontario this weekend and this Health Minister, with her eyes on a long term solution fails to acknowledge the present crisis. She needs to go. Honestly she needs to go.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

A truly exhausting 24 hours as our hospital administration announced the closure of the emergency department I have loved and nurtured for 39 years and then suddenly changed their minds.

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@alandrummond2

4 months

Yep. Actually. She is the absolute worst and I've been practicing in Ontario since 1983.

Mike Morden

@mmorden

4 months

Sylvia Jones the MOH spewing nonsense now. She blamed the Liberals and NDP for the current staffing shortages and funding in the Health care sector. This after being in power 5.5 years. Bragging about beds and equipment that do not treat people. She’s the worst. #SV4A

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@alandrummond2

2 years

Closure of Perth ER hits close to home. Patient arrives at my office in acute respiratory distress. Delay in seeking care. A three minute transfer to the ER is now a twenty- five minute transfer. With each passing day of ⁦ @fordnation ⁩ silence I am getting angrier

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alan drummond

@alandrummond2

3 years

A few thoughts on the hospital protests; To those of us on the pointy end of the health care stick - emergency services - these protests are both disturbing and hurtful but more than that they are wrong.

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alan drummond

@alandrummond2

8 months

Bouncy castle my ass. The stupid fuckers at that occupation cost my friend his daughter by suicide, so those who lent succour and support to them at the time and those Conservatives who try to whitewash and minimize the whole affair can just go fuck themselves.

Dr. Doug Eyolfson

@DougEyolfson

8 months

There had already been one attempt on the PM’s life (aka ‘friendly sausage maker’). There were nazi and confederate flags at the rally, and signs with nooses on them. The PM’s security detail would have been negligent to let him wade into that crowd.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

Mask mandates? I have a moral obligation to provide my staff a safe working environment. Regardless of government edicts, in my office masks will continue to be worn by both staff and patients until I am convinced otherwise.

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@alandrummond2

3 years

This is the kind of thing that chokes me up. I love small towns. I love Perth.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

As the first ministers meet to demand more money for health care, let's remind them that as individual provinces they haven't done a very good job fulfilling the national dream of equitable access to emergency health care.

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@alandrummond2

3 years

Today is their 34th birthday. Imagine that. Born at 29 weeks. A bittersweet day with the loss of Hilary but a day I will never forget. Courageous wife and three little fighters. All have brought such joy to my life.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

So this is health care in Ontario in 2022! @SylviaJonesMPP Elderly patient of mine presents to ER with blood in urine. Ultrasound shows a probable kidney tumor. CAT scan cannot be performed for three to four months!!! A 3 -4 month wait to confirm a cancer and somehow this is OK?

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alan drummond

@alandrummond2

2 years

Premier Ford @fordnation . The good people of Perth have always voted Conservative. It's time you put our people first, for once. Our hospital ER is closed and you have said nothing. Not one word of encouragement; not one word of acknowledgment. Do better. Come to Perth

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@alandrummond2

3 years

Just received the more than wonderful news that my ER staff will be vaccinated next week!

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@alandrummond2

2 years

The reality is however that there is no balance to be struck on dysfunctional and unsafe emergency departments - they aren’t safe and they are dysfunctional and any emergency physician anywhere in this country will say the same thing

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@alandrummond2

3 months

On CTV National News tonight to talk about the crisis in our nation's ERs. 12 hour waits to be seen by a physician, two or three days to be admitted and left to rot in a hallway and people dying in waiting rooms, yes it's a crisis.

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Never forgotten; forever cherished. Lives Lived: Hilary Drummond, 28 /via @globeandmail

Lives Lived: Hilary Drummond, 28

Triplet, teacher, cancer warrior, lover of life. Born on May 2, 1987, in Ottawa; died on Jan. 28, 2016, in Perth, Ont., of metastatic breast cancer, aged 28.

www.theglobeandmail.com

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@alandrummond2

1 year

So Christmas morning for me was a high heart rate, a low blood pressure, a sense of impending doom, an ambulance ride through the snow drifts and a several hour stay in my local ER but not as a physician! Through it all I was just so grateful to our emergency services. Thank you!

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@alandrummond2

2 years

So here's the deal. No acknowledgment of the ER crisis, no sense of urgency, no plan to immediately stabilize the ER nursing workforce and no commitment to a new culture of safety. We're screwed.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

Everything is fine. Everything is a success said no one in Ontario Health Care, except for its Minister of Health @SylviaJonesMPP . The most unbelievable interview I have heard in quite awhile

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@alandrummond2

11 months

I have been a Coroner in Ontario since 1993 - 30 years - and sadly it appears that my time is coming to an end not because I want it to but because the Office of the Chief Coroner is being unreasonable in its excessive demands on my time.

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alan drummond

@alandrummond2

2 years

Premier Ford ⁦ @fordnation ⁩ . For the love of God please acknowledge this crisis in health care delivery and show us you care. Silence, I’m afraid, isn’t golden.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

19 pediatricians call on province to reinstate mandatory masks in schools | CBC News

19 pediatricians call on N.B. government to reinstate mandatory masks in schools | CBC News

Nineteen New Brunswick pediatricians have written an open letter to the government calling for the reinstatement of universal masking in schools and preschools.

www.cbc.ca

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alan drummond

@alandrummond2

2 months

Courtesy of Apple Air Tags found my wife's purse in a ditch, 5 km west of Carleton Place. No wallet, no credit cards, no phone but both sets of car keys were there. This is the woman involved.

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@alandrummond2

3 months

Perhaps when speaking to a reporter today I shouldn’t have said, with respect to the general status of health care, “We’re all fucked” but I did and likely because it’s true. There goes my New Year’s resolution!

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@alandrummond2

2 years

Health care in Ontario cannot be left in the hands of a Celebrity Apprentice. Six weeks plus - no action. Time for @SylviaJonesMPP to go!

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@alandrummond2

2 months

'He's a liar and a hate-monger': Former prime minister Kim Campbell slams Pierre Poilievre via @torontostar

‘He’s a liar and a hate-monger’: Former prime minister Kim Campbell slams Pierre Poilievre

The former Progressive Conservative leader says "the choices are not great for me" when considering how to vote in the next federal election.

www.thestar.com

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alan drummond

@alandrummond2

2 years

Well let me help you out with that. As an emergency physician of longstanding, and one who has been in a leadership position of one form or another for over thirty years, this IS a CRISIS.

Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

2 years

Ontario’s health minister told reporters today that it would be inappropriate to call the situation in the province emergency rooms a crisis, and partially blamed vacationing health care staffers for the current problems. #onpoli

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alan drummond

@alandrummond2

2 months

I'm seriously disgusted. Precious health care dollars wasted on corporate greed.

Michelle Cohen, MD

@DocMCohen

2 months

Sent to me by a Reddit user. @ShopprsDrugMart offers Optimum Points as an incentive for pharmacists and students to compete with one another in doing MedsChecks. This is how the sausage is made in corporate-controlled health care. It's about $$$, not what's best for patients.

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alan drummond

@alandrummond2

9 months

So here’s the new reality. Six admits on starting my shift and only a hallway in which to see patients (on a Monday morning!!) A hallway! No privacy, no confidentiality, no dignity. This is @fordnation ’s idea of quality health care

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@alandrummond2

8 months

I used to be proud of being an Ontarian. Now I'm kind of ashamed. We have a gangsta for Premier and we all just sit by and let it all happen. @fordnation

Toronto Star

@TorontoStar

8 months

#StarEditorial : It is not enough that Steve Clark be reprimanded. He must be fired and the entire festering mess of his Greenbelt gambit must be reviewed.

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alan drummond

@alandrummond2

2 years

A dedicated ward clerk with twenty years of service- and I mean tough years - and she gets…..Wait for it - a free lunch in our airplane food cafeteria

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@alandrummond2

1 year

25% of my clinic patients today were "no shows". No call; just didn't show up. Weather not the issue. And people wonder why it sometimes takes weeks to see a physician. Appointments are now valuable commodities, and it is a damned shame that they are squandered in such a way.

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@alandrummond2

3 years

Lives Lived: Hilary Drummond, 28 /via @globeandmail

Lives Lived: Hilary Drummond, 28

Triplet, teacher, cancer warrior, lover of life. Born on May 2, 1987, in Ottawa; died on Jan. 28, 2016, in Perth, Ont., of metastatic breast cancer, aged 28.

www.theglobeandmail.com

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@alandrummond2

11 months

Thought I had retired but I guess nobody got the memo. Besides CTV Your Morning (this morning) I have also spoken with CTV Toronto, Toronto 640 and next up CFRA (Ottawa). The consensus at our national emergency medicine meeting is that things are bad and are going to get worse

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@alandrummond2

3 years

This is what the inside of an ambulance looks like. In rural Canada, paramedics and their patients are contained in close quarters for extended periods of time. Paramedics, of all people, need to be vaccinated yesterday!

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@alandrummond2

5 months

Twitter can be a cesspool (as I know only too well) but man, it also has the capacity to prompt reflection, hope and optimism.

Sky News

@SkyNews

5 months

A Christmas advert created by a family-run bar in Northern Ireland has gone viral on social media. The manager of Charlie's Bar said she is "overwhelmed" by the reaction to the advert, which highlights how lonely people can feel over the festive period 🔗

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alan drummond

@alandrummond2

1 year

I used to provide anesthesia services at our local hospital for close to thirty years. We would start early, and many times would not finish the OR list until the evening. Now they shut it down at 4PM! There is unused capacity in our present system.

Marit Stiles

@MaritStiles

1 year

This aft, I'm proposing we fix Ontario's health care staffing crisis by turning the lights back on in public ORs and filling every available shift. To shorten wait times and get people the care they need faster. It’ll cost less and deliver more. I'll keep you posted. #onpoli

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@alandrummond2

2 years

The invitation was quickly withdrawn in part because they were concerned that two Ontario emergency physicians were basically saying the same things. The unsaid inference was more balance

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@alandrummond2

3 years

My God what a nasty country we have become. I'm no fan of our Prime Minister but after two years into a global pandemic, he's not allowed a couple of days of rest in one of the most beautiful places on earth? Sick of this shit.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

This is the Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga. Rumor has it (albeit factually) that last Friday they had 104 patients waiting in the ER for admission. One. hundred. and four. Crisis? What crisis? Sylvia Jones needs to go.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

Say what you like about Kathleen Wynne ( I wasn't a fan and was happy to see her government go) but there were no ER closures in Ontario during her time as Premier. Not one - Zero - Zip. @fordnation

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alan drummond

@alandrummond2

7 months

I'm sure Shoppers Drug Mart corporation is delighted; I am equally sure that a lot of individual pharmacists, who work for that corporation, are not. This is not about access to quality care; this is about corporate profits.

Sylvia Jones

@SylviaJonesMPP

7 months

Today I announced at Shoppers Drug Mart in #Etobicoke that our government is expanding the list of common ailments pharmacists can treat and prescribe for, to include an additional six. Local pharmacies are now a one-stop-shop to connect to treatment for 19 common ailments.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

The only correct solution on the short term is to increase the number of staffed beds in the hospital and the community and make Home Care something more than the sham program it currently is

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@alandrummond2

20 days

I'm actually outraged.

Raghu Venugopal MD

@raghu_venugopal

20 days

I am disgusted and not a shred surprised. We have lost our way. Mr. Meunier stuck on an ER stretcher for 4 days with consequent bone and muscle exposed said "I don't want to be a burden". He was granted death through medical assistance in dying.

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alan drummond

@alandrummond2

2 years

Glad to see this on the front page of the Star. Time to call this out for what it is. State sponsored human suffering and far from a mere inconvenience

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@alandrummond2

1 year

The Maclean's piece, when it comes out, is not a good news story. It is about the degradation of a once excellent emergency service though decades of administrative neglect and what happened in Perth is truly an honest reflection of what is happening in every ER in the country.

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@alandrummond2

4 months

Our operating rooms close by 4PM practically every day to "save money". No wonder there are year long waits for joint replacements.

Avis Favaro

@Avis_Favaro

4 months

Surgeons working in hospitals have limited OR times and long wait lists because of lack of nurses and finding issues. That’s the problem.

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@alandrummond2

2 months

Today my wife was robbed while grocery shopping in Carleton Place. Approached by a woman who said she had dropped some change, the accomplice stole her purse while my wife was searching under the car. According to the Police this is a common scheme. Beware!

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@alandrummond2

3 years

Almost five years now since my daughter Hilary died of breast cancer at age 28. The grief never ends; nobody ever sees the scars

Nikki Jones #FBPE

@NikkiNonJones

3 years

Today is the start of #NationalGriefAwarenessWeek so I’m sharing my wonderful daughter Manon with you. Manon died in 2018 in a MH ward. The knock at the door at 01.15 is my “stop all the clocks” moment. The shock of hearing the news has never left me...

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alan drummond

@alandrummond2

7 months

Randall Denley: Doug Ford is politically done. His party needs to tell him that via @nationalpost

Randall Denley: Doug Ford is politically done. His party needs to tell him that

nationalpost.com

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alan drummond

@alandrummond2

10 months

I'm not blowing any whistle. I'm screaming from the rooftops. This has to stop. Time to get rid of the ineffectual Minister of Health.

LFK Ontario Liberals 🇨🇦🇺🇦

@LFKOntLiberals

10 months

Important thread: The cost of @fordnation ’s cuts and inaction to public hospitals in #LFK and beyond. Thank you to Dr. Drummond for blowing the whistle and standing up for truth! #onpoli

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alan drummond

@alandrummond2

1 year

It was "all hands-on deck" six months ago when Ontario's emergency health system started collapsing into crisis, chaos and concern; six months ago, when you became Minister of Health. The worst Ontario Health Minister in decades and I've been here since 1979.

Sylvia Jones

@SylviaJonesMPP

1 year

Beginning today, under the Regulated Health Professions Act, we are reducing barriers to help nurses start practicing sooner. It's all hands on deck as we continue to bring more health care workers into our workforce so Ontarians can continue to receive the care they deserve.

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@alandrummond2

3 months

And I think most Canadians, including me, would agree.

Mary Lou Tatton

@MLTspecialties

3 months

@alandrummond2 I say no to cash for private healthcare. We are in this together.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

First of all, no longer your friend. Second of all, while you slurped coffee and donuts with the other premiers my emergency department remained closed for ten consecutive days leaving 25,000 people vulnerable . Third, I wouldn’t give you a dime without accountability

Doug Ford

@fordnation

2 years

I had a very constructive meeting yesterday with Canada’s provincial and territorial leaders. Friends, we need a plan from the federal government for more health care funding. #COF2022

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@alandrummond2

3 months

Another, depressing, truly bad, horrible week for Canada's emergency department staff and the 15 million people we serve.

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@alandrummond2

2 months

Not one for hyperbole (I hope) but Ontario is on the brink of serious, serious trouble and this government doesn’t have the people, the insight, vision or wherewithal to fix it. They just don’t.

Ontario Medical Association

@OntariosDoctors

2 months

Family doctors are speaking out. The time to act is now before they vanish forever. Everyone in Ontario deserves access to a family doctor. Like and repost if you agree. #Onhealth

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@alandrummond2

3 months

Nope. Not a chance.

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@alandrummond2

9 months

Sadly, I think this is true. I used to think just plain incompetent but now I smell corruption and greed. I am angry. They have to go.

TVO Today | The Agenda

@TheAgenda

9 months

The Greenbelt report proves it: The Ford government is corrupt - By @David_Moscrop

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@alandrummond2

1 year

So I am going to ask for some understanding. This is not just a media blurb for me. It is intensely personal and to be quite straight, painful.

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@alandrummond2

4 months

Criminal neglect at the hands of @fordnation

CityNews Toronto

@CityNewsTO

4 months

Calls are growing for the Ontario government to recall the legislature and deal with rising emergency room wait times. "People in this province expect us to be doing better."

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3 months

Lives Lived: Hilary Drummond, 28 /via @globeandmail

Lives Lived: Hilary Drummond, 28

Triplet, teacher, cancer warrior, lover of life. Born on May 2, 1987, in Ottawa; died on Jan. 28, 2016, in Perth, Ont., of metastatic breast cancer, aged 28.

www.theglobeandmail.com

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@alandrummond2

4 years

PM Trudeau says military style assault weapons, designed to kill as many people as possible have no place in Canada. Truer words were never said. Thank you.

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@alandrummond2

1 year

Yet again I can't thank you enough for the many kind comments I have received about this article @macleans , which seems to have resonated with so many people. Little known secret, I am actually quite a shy and private person and the attention received has frankly overwhelmed me

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@alandrummond2

5 months

"Do not go to the ER. Call your pharmacist." With these words, Christian Dube has demonstrated that he is unfit to be Quebec's Health Minister.

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@alandrummond2

1 month

Yep. I hear you. I held my daughter in my arms and softly sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" as she gently died. I hope she heard it; I hope she felt the love. I cry every time I hear that song.

Ellie Lexie

@ellielexx

1 month

Saturday morning this photo was taken. And we knew then. Sunday morning we held you in our arms for hours and told you over and over again how special you are and how much we love you even after your little heart stopped beating.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

My ER was closed for three weeks. It wasn't "there when people needed it". Sit down Minister. You know not of what you speak.

Marit Stiles

@MaritStiles

2 years

Beds don't look after patients. Health care workers do. #RepealBill124 #onpoli

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@alandrummond2

1 year

Unprecedented closures of rural ERs; ambulances stuck on off-ramps and unable to respond to community emergencies and thirty hour waits for a bed in the city emergency departments but hey, sure, let's focus on private clinics and cataracts.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

So the five day closure of the Perth ER is actually a three week closure. Three. Weeks. @SylviaJonesMPP @fordnation

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@alandrummond2

2 years

It is caused because hospitals are crowded and the multitude of hospital patients who need to be admitted via the ER are stuck for in the ER for days denying patients in the waiting room and ambulances access to treatment areas

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@alandrummond2

3 months

Eight years, seems like yesterday. My broken heart will never heal.

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@alandrummond2

6 months

I remember when we would operate into the evening (me being the anesthetist) to get a list done plus the add-ons. Now they routinely shut down at 4PM come hell or high water.

Avis Favaro

@Avis_Favaro

6 months

Operating rooms are sitting idle in the evenings & overnight. Open those to patient care before creating private hospitals : report

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@alandrummond2

8 months

Two surgeries in three days and I am ever so glad to be home! There’s no place like home.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

I reject the precept that "there are no ER nurses". There are, they didn't die, they weren't lifted up and out in an end of times rapture, they were not sucked int a cosmic black hole - they are elsewhere in the system - waiting for a chance/change to get back to their vocation.

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@alandrummond2

2 months

Last week I received a faxed Meds Check for a patient of mine who happens to be a physician. I found that odd since the patient wouldn't need any help, at all, with medications.

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@alandrummond2

2 years

Well, personally, I've finally had enough. A recent escalation of verbal abuse against my office staff has reached an unprecedented level (What is seriously wrong with people?) and I'm not putting up with it any longer. Zero tolerance is actually going to mean Zero Tolerance.

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@alandrummond2

22 days

And here we go again. Now a "lipid panel profile and review" from none other than Shoppers Drug Mart. Gee, I just did that 2 months ago. Unnecessary duplication of services; undoubtedly unnecessary skimming off more health care dollars. When does this end?

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@alandrummond2

2 years

It pushed his child over the edge.

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