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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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Led the CMA Apology Process. Former Prez @cma_docs @IPACIndigenous . All good paths bring patients and providers together. Tech, med, culture and the future.

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@AlikaMD

Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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There are 3 truths about Canadian healthcare that the public will acknowledge in the next two years: 1. Healthcare is collapsing across Canada because of decisions to underfund it over the past two decades. For folks who say it’s unsustainable, we’ve been saying that for 30

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Canadian Medical Association

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74% of Canadians say that health care in their province is in crisis. The CMA and its counterparts urge leaders to stabilize our #CDNhealth system for timely patient care and safe, well-resourced environments for health professionals.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

That mysterious flu you caught is covid.

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Once surgeries get cancelled the health system isn’t at risk of being overrun, it is overrun. #COVID19 #medtwitter

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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The 89% of Canadians that are fully vaccinated will be the real reason this pandemic finally ends.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

Acting like we’re still in a pandemic is the best thing we can do for the economy right now. 1/4

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

If you crave freedom, don’t oppress the people around you. There’s a big difference between advocacy and anarchy.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

There’s a reason a nurse needs to go to nursing school. Nurses are uniquely skilled, experienced and competent at what they do. The idea that non-nurses can just pick up nursing work without training, mentorship and support is non-sensical.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

Full hospital beds is a more pressing problem than empty store shelves in my part of Northern Alberta.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

Anyone who complains about their taxes paying for another persons healthcare doesn’t understand the actual cost of healthcare. When we pool our resources we not only protect those most vulnerable, we protect ourselves and the people we care about. #cndpoli #health

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

A picture is still worth a thousand words. #cdnhealth #cdnpoli #MedTwitter

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

If we replaced “health worker #burnout ” with “workers practicing in unreasonable and unsafe conditions” we’d have a much more honest conversation about what in the health system needs to change. #cdnpoli #health

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

Even if you strip away the inhumane noise levels, constant vehicle exhaust and harm caused to local residents and businesses, ten days is an awfully long time for anyone to expect free parking in downtown Ottawa.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

If a person who previously didn’t mask decided to start masking due to the surge of respiratory illnesses in kids going on right now, maybe we should pat them on the back and say “thank you” instead of “I told you so.” Frustration shared by a non-MD friend who’s now masking.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

Truly exceptional health systems take a generation to build, but only months to tear down.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

Avoid being lukewarm in the public vs private healthcare discussion. Once the door is opened to broad, private healthcare that door will never close.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

When people write about this #COVID19 pandemic years from now, I wonder if they’ll reflect on how much of the death, pain and suffering was unnecessary if we’d just done what we needed to do instead of what we wanted. #MedTwitter #FirebreakAB

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

4 years

I was labeled developmentally delayed. My principal told my parents and me that I'd never graduate high school. Afterward my mom held me and told me over and over again: "You are not broken." She refused to accept the principal's prognosis. Because of her, so did I.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

To the armchair forensic investigators and amateur historians insisting that children buried in mass graves were victims of disease, please stop. Society is past the tipping point of accepting a sanitized version of Canadian history. #genocide #History #truthandreconciliation

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

Research over the last two years is clear. Masks are effective at slowing the spread of respiratory viruses like #Covid_19 . Political choices eliminating mask mandates are because wearing them is annoying, not because it’s ineffective.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

Wishing everyone a deep day of reflection today. #NDTR #NDTR2022

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

If you ever questioned whether a free, independent press is important to democracy, you need to watch the Alberta Covid presser right now. These reporters are on point. #journalism #COVID19AB

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

The most dangerous moment in a health catastrophe is when the persons managing the crisis think it’s over when it’s actually not. #medtwitter #OmicronVirus #COVID19

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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It takes years of great decisions to build a world class health system. It takes a handful of bad decisions to burn it to the ground. Hope Canadians pay attention. It won’t take too long for healthcare to slide from good->tolerable tolerable->bad and bad->desolate

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

If you don’t want society to get locked down in the midst of another wave of overwhelming covid illness, put in the work to prevent it. 4/4

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

4 years

In between operating room cases at 1AM, I often wonder where the government gets the idea healthcare workers can work harder than we already are. 🤔 #MedTwitter #oncall

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

Conversation with my daughter this morning. 12 yo: When can I get my Covid vaccine? Me: Next week, but you know it’s not back to normal for a while right? 12 yo: Isn’t the fastest way back to normal getting vaccinated? I always assume my kids aren’t listening...🥰

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

4 years

1/ Beginning of a long thread. Yesterday a CBC report noted that myself and a surgical colleague reported the hanging of a noose in June 2016. Thank you to everyone who has sent me supportive messages and phone calls since the story was published. It means a lot.

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Charles Rusnell

@charlesrusnell

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Alberta health minister orders review 4 years after noose hung at Grande Prairie hospital | CBC News @albertadoctors #cdnpoli

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

Turning to private healthcare to fix the healthcare worker shortage is like opening a pasta sauce plant to fix a tomato shortage.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

Test if symptomatic. Stay home if sick. Come to hospital if you need support. Wear the right mask in the appropriate situation. Get vaccinated. Boosters increase your protection. Be kind to each other. 3/4

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

Standing in a sea of Indigenous physicians from around the world. Pretty amazing to be a drop in this body of water. #PRIDoC2022

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

ICU and hospital capacity appear steady in this wave of the pandemic (which is great), but 1000s of surgeries have still been cancelled, primary care capacity has fallen precipitously and healthcare worker burnout is worse than ever. Healthcare systems are still falling apart.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

Thoughts with front-line healthcare workers and colleagues across Canada today, especially in Ontario. Despite the hate projected onto us by a proportionally small group of Canadians, we will continue to be there for patients.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

My 6 yo was fixated on getting rid of his favourite video game this week. We play it almost every weekend. Today we cuddled and watched a movie. After, he confided to me that the game reminded him how afraid he was I’d die from covid at work. Not what I was expecting.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

4 years

I feel like I should have booked the day off. 🥰 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We can change healthcare systems together. Thank you for putting your faith in me to #amplify your voice.

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Canadian Medical Association

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine has been elected as 2021 CMA president-elect nominee. Congratulations to @AlikaMD , an award-winning physician who practises anesthesia in Grande Prairie, Alberta: #CDNhealth

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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Am getting my children vaccinated for #covid as soon as the 5-11 becomes available, same way I’ve had them #vaccinated for preventable diseases all their lives. Am also turning off most comments for this tweet as some people feel strongly about parenting my kids. #MedTwitter

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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I have four kids, three btw 5-11. They’ve had lots of questions re: #vaccination . We’ve had many talks. They made the decision to get vaccinated for #COVID19 together today. Does this make me a better parent? I don’t think so. Does this make for #safer children? Absolutely.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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I didn’t want to start my day off crying, but sometimes these things are out of your control. #215Pledge #indigenous #ResidentialSchool

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Indian Residential School Survivors Society

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This was created by the students at N'kwala School. 🧡 It reads, "They tried to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds that would awaken the world."

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Just to be explicit, this doesn’t mean I’m calling for a lockdown. It means we should all remember the choices we make matter. #COVIDisAirborne #COVID19 2/4

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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Supply and demand continue to be macroeconomic facts that operate in parallel to inflation and taxes. We’d love to welcome NHS docs to #Canada so we can increase our supply and meet patient demand. @CMA_Docs is working hard to make it easier for colleagues worldwide to join us!

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Rishi Sunak

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@Conservatives 3️⃣ Today’s offer is final. There will be no more talks on pay. This country will not be bullied into higher taxes or higher borrowing to fund unrealistic pay demands, risking higher inflation.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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2023 will be the year governments realize that more efficient, lower-cost healthcare is impossible without stable community-based primary care.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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There’s a fair amount of people that confuse #CancelCulture with society just not accepting discrimination and injustice anymore.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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It’s hard to process the #COVID19 death of a 14 yo yesterday. Blaming comorbidities minimizes the role society has in protecting our kids. Stop rationalizing. Grieve, then do everything we can to prevent it from happening again. Our kids deserve better.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

1 year

I often get asked the question, “why is everyone so sick on reserves?” I turn it around. I ask “why are people healthier in other areas?” This shifts the conversation from “why are they broken” to “why is the system broken?”

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

The first step in addressing any crisis is to acknowledge that there’s a crisis. The second is to fully commit to confront it. No life has ever been resuscitated and stabilized with a half-effort. Same applies to health systems. We are in a crisis in #healthcare . #cndpoli

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

What will it take for governments to act on the pediatric respiratory crisis unfolding across Canada right now? The impacts of the crisis must be in the line of sight of political leaders. Share your stories. Call your politicians. Make sure none of them can look away.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

Our #healthcare systems still work for critically ill #Covid19 patients because they’ve broken for everyone else.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

Just like individuals are the sum of their lived experiences, countries must reconcile that same fact. The past is who we are today, but doesn’t need to be all we are tomorrow. #CanadaDay #CanadaDay2021

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As a rural specialist who has been in Northern Alberta for the past 12 years, I can compare the state of healthcare today with rural healthcare when I first arrived here. Capacity just wasn’t an issue in 2011. If an emergency came in, we handled it. There was no triaging of

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Please look at this map of hosp service disruptions! This is NOT: "docs taking holidays at that same time" and will NOT be fixed by: "changing management" the govt of AB funds/owns/controls these hospitals... FULL STOP.

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When I was inducted as @CMA_Docs ' first Indigenous President, my mom reminded me that I needed to “own my power” and embrace the belief that I could help make health systems better. I had a responsibility to the people who’d cleared the path before me to live up to their

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

It is impossible for Canadian health systems to return to how things functioned pre-pandemic. Our foundation has cracked, our health workforce is past burnout and our patients need more support than ever before. We have lost capacity we won’t get back without deep investment.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

I hope no one believes the myth that "health isn't political" anymore. #MedTwitter #Health

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

The healthcare system is not in a good place right now.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

Healthcare worker burnout is widespread because of the working conditions we are forced to endure, not because of the patients we serve.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

7 years

Still remember 1st year Med being the only #Indigenous student in our four years of medical classes. A lot has changed since then at @usask , but the loneliness I’ll always remember. Keep strong @chikastacypoet , it’s a unique and powerful experience. You’ll be better for it.

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André Picard

@picardonhealth

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In My White Coat, I’m More Black than Ever, by @chikastacypoet , the only Black student in her @uoftmedicine class via @FLAREfashion @Monika_Dutt #MedEd

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

If you still believe covid concerns are overblown or conspiracies, put your digital device down and go walk around your local hospital. The answers aren’t on the internet. They’re in the real world. #covid19 #medtwitter #vaccination

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

4 years

I wonder if the social determinants of health would make more sense to non-academics if they were relabelled “social policy and investment choices that create health or sickness.” These aren’t random events, or circumstances we can’t control.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

Kids are finally asleep, likely dreaming about what tomorrow will bring. As a physician, I’ve missed a lot of Christmas eves away from them over the last 14 years. Feeling pretty grateful for physicians, nurses, and other health workers keeping the system going tonight.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

Dr. Williams is the first (and only, I believe) Indigenous forensic pathologist in Canada. I hope her voice is at the tables supporting Indigenous communities as they address the possible forensic requirements of residential school unmarked graves. #ADayToListen

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Kona Williams M.D.

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My thoughts on the Residential School grave sites, and the potential forensic work involved. 1. The work must be guided by the decisions and wishes of the families and communities

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

At one point I was confident the public would voluntarily change behaviour once it was clear the health system was on fire. Not so sure right now.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

We’d get a lot farther in improving health systems if instead of talking about change, we actually changed.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

A friendly reminder to newly elected and recently reshuffled politicians. MDs, nurses and #hcw are not your enemy in this battle against #COVID19 . We’re your greatest ally and resource. Treat us this way and we’ll come through for you over and over again. #MedTwitter #Elxn44

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

Parents should always act as shields for their children, not the other way around.

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Ottawa Police

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Protestors have put children between police operations and the unlawful protest site. The children will be brought to a place of safety.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

4 years

Some might be surprised at the emotion Alberta MDs are expressing on social right now. For those who think it’s just venting, it’s not. You’re reading the fears and hopes of MDs who’ve sacrificed and invested deeply in AB’s healthcare system. We want it to be successful.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

Great chat with Dr. Theresa Tam @CPHO_Canada at the Coalition for Health workers meeting today. 😁 Public health physicians have shouldered an incredible burden over the past few years. Thank you for your continued service. 🙏🏼

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

Addressing healthcare provider burnout means making working environments safe again. Safe staffing levels. Safe to report problems to decision makers. Safe access to equipment and consumables. Transparency on where care is safe, is unsafe, and is at risk of becoming unsafe.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

Silver lining, no mosquitoes outside.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

Triage and rationing in healthcare are very different. If healthcare was dinner, triage means you'd wait in line for your turn to eat. You'd eat eventually. Rationing means by your turn, there's no more food. #hcw are desperately trying to feed you. #MedTwitter #GetVaccinated

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

Today I was ratified as @CMA_Docs President-Elect, the beginning of three years supporting and leading the national organization that unifies Canadian physicians. /1

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

Gratitude to MDs, nurses, healthcare workers, administrators and public health doing their best to keep the system functioning. #COVID19

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

There are three types of people in successful societal change. The people who drive change, the people who support change, and the people who realize they need to get out of the way.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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I was labelled developmentally delayed as a child and told I’d never amount to anything significant. My mother let go of her dreams of a career, replacing them with my dreams; she never gave up on me. On #InternatinalWomensDay , thank you again Mom. I owe you my #everything .

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

We desperately need effective leaders in this #healthcare #collapse . Effective leaders are transparent about crises, educate about root causes and dialogue with patients and providers. Ineffective leaders dismiss crises, conflate root causes and gaslight patients and providers.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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Truth, covid is airborne. Also truth, covid’s impact on healthcare peaks then falls (except long covid) in waves. ⬆️Admin burden, ⬇️mobility, crumbling primary care, climate inaction, no nat’l data and HHR plans, are examples of constant stresses. Also, we’re in the ditch.

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David Keegan ♿️🏳️‍🌈 he/him

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@AlikaMD One super quick way to make it less likely we drive into the ditch is to finally recognize the science that #COVIDisAirborne and bring back strong mitigation. Otherwise disability will mount, more health professionals will get sick, and collapse is guaranteed. Act now @CMA_Docs

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

Managing health systems with a “work longer, work harder” approach no longer works. People don’t have any more to give. What’s the solution? Change the health system so we can open up more capacity. - pan 🇨🇦 licensure - a nat’l HHR plan - make sure providers focus time on care

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

Such an honour to be among this years recipients of Canada’s Top 40 under 40. Most congrats today have been coupled with the question, “you’re under 40??” 😝 #oldsoul #medtwitter #cantop40under40 @Top40_40

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Canadian Medical Association

3 years

As a physician leader and tireless advocate for Indigenous health, @AlikaMD ’s passion and dedication are inspirational. Congratulations Dr. Alika Lafontaine on being named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 👏👏👏 #can40under40

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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Let’s remember that whether we label #coronavirus a pandemic or endemic disease, our healthcare systems remain broken. #CoronaUpdate #GetVaccinated

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

If you’re unhappy with, - health system fragmentation, - lack of integrated end-2-end care - policy decisions that minimize costs above all else you will REALLY dislike private healthcare. In public systems these are parts of cycles. In private healthcare these are features.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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I don’t think this worked out the way she was expecting.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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There’s an ongoing MYTH that national physician licensure will lead to a mass exodus of physicians from rural and remote communities to cities. Let me take you through the logic to explain why this is VERY UNLIKELY to happen. A thread 🧵

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

1 year

The most important improvement needed in Canadian #health systems right now is access to health services. The most effective way to achieve that is to value the folks who do the work and keep the system running. Value people -> solve patient access.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 months

2. The only folks who can reverse this collapse are politicians who hold the purse strings and have the power to change policies and regulations to guide different activity in the health system towards something better. Going it alone has never helped. Working together does.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

Disappointed I can only retweet this once.

@NaheedD

Naheed Dosani

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Retweet this if you think that nurses are incredible human beings & deserve to be paid much better.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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“Canadians are right to look at all orders of government and say, ‘This is terrible. You guys really need to solve this,”’ Trudeau said. The future of healthcare is replacing how we used to do things with ways that work better. We need action now.

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Health-care funding deadlocked as Trudeau says provinces won't get more money without reforms

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

I guess we still live in a Canada where you can’t show up in the capital with heavy machinery, stockpile gasoline, demand the undemocratic overthrowing of a government, then expect nothing will happen.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

The #KyleRittenhouseTrial verdict reinforces to me my parental responsibility to teach my kids they do not live in a just world and that their #privilege remains temporary. This doesn't mean that the world is not filled with good people. We just can't blindly trust the systems.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

It’s -40C outside right now and I’m questioning some of the life choices that led me to this point. 🥶 Merry Christmas Twitter. 🎄🌲🎄

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

1 year

Tommy Douglas introduced Medicare, but #MoniqueBegin set the national standard - adopted unanimously in parliament too! My favourite quote from her, “We take medicare for granted, and more often than not complain about it instead of defending it.” #HealthcareLegend

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

4 years

I’d argue the most beautiful sound in the universe is a newborn crying immediately after delivery during a crash C-Section. It’s like they’re saying thanks for getting me out of there. 👶👋🏽 #medtwitter #callthoughts

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

The #healthcare system is the result of what we’re willing to accept, not the result of what we can afford. We have cut too deeply into healthcare budgets. Budgetary goals must not override humane treatment of patients or patient safety. #medtwitter

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Quebec woman dead 2 days after lying on Gatineau hospital floor awaiting treatment | CBC News

Anne Pommainville spent several hours in pain lying on the floor of the Hull Hospital emergency department in Gatineau because there was no bed or stretcher available, her family says. She died less...

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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If we don’t refocus the conversation of 🇨🇦 health system sustainability back to the patients who use it and the professions who provide it, we’ll be forced into conversations about its survivability. #health #cdnpoli

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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It’s a very scary time we’re in right now with institutions that provide core services like healthcare, education, public safety, etc. The solution is to remake them into what they should be, not to deregulate them and do free-for-all change. What should they be? Role of

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

Masks work.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

It's always inspiring to see the listening, learning, and reflection Canadians go through on #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay . This #NIPD2021 , ask you to keep a bit of that space for issues affecting Indigenous Peoples the other 364 days too. 🙏🏼❤️ We can change what we remember.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

Sometimes there aren’t two sides to a story, especially when it comes to access to medical care.

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Jennifer Gunter

2 years

I was just asked to be on The National to discuss Roe and abortion...and then I found out it would be a panel with a "pro-life/anti-abortion" voice. I am livid and sent this reply. I couldn't care less if this means I will not be asked back to the CBC. It needed to be said.

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

4 years

I've been reading around #gaslighting lately. For those new to the term, it's a type of manipulation where seeds of doubt are planted within a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment. 1/17

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

For anyone who needs to hear it, Covid is airborne. #OmicronVariant

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

2 years

Suggestion to journalists covering the health system collapse. “Does Canada need more private health care?” is probably the wrong question to be asking. “Will private health care solve our current problems?” is closer to the right one. #cndpoli

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CBC Radio's The House: Does Canada need more private health care? | CBC Radio

On this week’s show: Former Saskatchewan finance minister Janice MacKinnon and Melanie Bechard, chair of the group Canadian Doctors for Medicare, debate the prospect of increased privatization in...

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

3 years

Last March, #HCW were terrified we’d get our families sick caring for patients. I made space in the garage to isolate myself during part of the first wave when PPE wasn’t readily available. Go forward a year and together we can make sure our loved ones are safe. #thisisourshot !

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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

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The American approach to politics and healthcare does not belong in Canada.

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