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Evan Watson

@EvanTRT

medical student | MSc @lsesociology | political economies of land and home | social medicine | accompaniment | speak fantasy to power | (he/him)

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Evan Watson
Evan Watson@EvanTRT·
The happy faces of medical students that just found out we've been awarded a social innovation grant from the @UCalgaryMed Indigenous, Local, and Global Health Office, Innovate Calgary, and the @UCalgary Pluralism Initiative! A 🧵about drug policy:
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UCalgaryMedicine
UCalgaryMedicine@UCalgaryMed·
#UCalgaryMed student Evan Watson and emergency physician Dr. Eddy Lang, MD, contributed to an article about the social prescribing of housing in emergency departments, often the only health-care system resource for unhoused patients, they say. Read more ⬇️ healthydebate.ca/2023/10/topic/…
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Marliss Taylor
Marliss Taylor@MarlissT·
I’m still getting my head around this. My team responded to 18 overdoses in 8 hours today. I’m so proud of them and grateful for their skill and caring. I’m also so angry that it has to be this way. And it’s only getting worse. We can’t 12 step our way out of this.
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courtney laplante™️
courtney laplante™️@corklezlaplante·
Me in 2010 playing in an apartment complex before they put the dry wall up don’t act like I am not ride or die for Chad
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Evan Watson
Evan Watson@EvanTRT·
@DrewWeinerPR BC filled every single of their family medicine residency spots. Alberta has 42 unfilled spots this year. TLDR: New doctors do not want to train and work in Alberta. Try again.
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Evan Watson@EvanTRT·
I’m a medical student in Alberta. Not a single one of my classmates are international students. 85% of my class is explicitly comprised of people from Alberta. If there is a doctor shortage, it’s because Alberta trained grads don’t want to work under a morally bankrupt gov.
Alberta NDP@albertaNDP

Instead of figuring out how to recruit more doctors... ... UCP candidate Scott Cyr says we have too many "foreign students" in medical schools?

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Andrew Longhurst @alonghurst.bsky.social
Andrew Longhurst @alonghurst.bsky.social@a_longhurst·
A large US health care investment advisory firm is putting together a prospectus for its clients (investors) about potential large-scale for-profit health care delivery opportunities in western Canada. I can’t share where this intel comes from, but it’s credible. I’m worried.
Alberta NDP@albertaNDP

In a newly uncovered video, Danielle Smith lays out her detailed plan to sell off “any of the hundred hospitals” that are part of our public healthcare system. Not only does she want Albertans to pay to see a doctor, she wants to privatize hospitals too.

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Evan Watson
Evan Watson@EvanTRT·
The current toxic drug supply represents one of the most substantial and clearly remediable health concerns facing our province #abpoli Shouldn't this be an urgent and direct priority for the Minster of Health? 3/5
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Darren Markland
Darren Markland@drdagly·
Front line healthcare workers have never seen this many people die from opiate poisonings before. Last night in the ICU was nuts. Half of who came in are people succumbing to this plague. As desperate as we are to stop this, involuntary treatments exacerbate the problem.
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Evan Watson@EvanTRT·
An interesting update here: our colleagues at @momsstoptheharm reached out to @NACMilliken for a meeting (as @JasonNixonAB’s office suggested) and were told he was “too busy.” He was also too busy to meet with medical students in his constituency. Unacceptable. #ableg
Evan Watson@EvanTRT

"..press secretary for Health Minister @JasonCoppingAB, said the minister was unable to schedule a meeting with students due to the election writ period coming up." As the student who requested the meeting, this is actually not entirely true ... 🧵 1/5 cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…

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Elaine Hyshka
Elaine Hyshka@ehyshka·
As an emergency room physician Dr. Mithani is on the frontline of Alberta's drug poisoning epidemic. Doctors are not asking for the power to involuntarily confine people. Were they even consulted?
Dr. Shazma Mithani@DrShazmaMithani

I debated posting this. But the article by @globeandmail about the proposed “Compassionate Intervention Act” in Alberta is just wrong. It’s hypocritical and wrong. #ableg #abpoli #abhealth #harmreduction #drugpoisoningcrisis #opioids

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Bonnie Larson
Bonnie Larson@BonnieraeLarson·
@EvanTRT @JasonCoppingAB The health mins are always deflecting this to MH&A (that’s why they created a separate min). Copping is uninformed despite this clearly belonging in his portfolio. Hot potato policy. Keep up the pressure anyways. 💜
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Friends of Medicare
Friends of Medicare@FriendsMedicare·
The fact that Alberta's future drs can't get a meeting with the Health Minister to discuss the drug poisoning crisis—"one of the most substantial & clearly remediable health concerns facing our province"—just goes to show where this government's priorities lie. #ABhealth #ABleg
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"..press secretary for Health Minister @JasonCoppingAB, said the minister was unable to schedule a meeting with students due to the election writ period coming up." As the student who requested the meeting, this is actually not entirely true ... 🧵 1/5 cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…

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Evan Watson@EvanTRT·
Our asks:
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Evan Watson@EvanTRT·
Our health and social systems continue to be overwhelmed by this crisis. As medical students, we acknowledge this as one the most pressing issues we will face in our careers. It is unfortunate that our Minister of Health was unavailable to hear our concerns. 5/5
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Evan Watson@EvanTRT·
"..press secretary for Health Minister @JasonCoppingAB, said the minister was unable to schedule a meeting with students due to the election writ period coming up." As the student who requested the meeting, this is actually not entirely true ... 🧵 1/5 cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
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