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Dr. Amy Tan

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My views only. There's no self-care without collective care. Humanity always.

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Dr. Amy Tan

1 year

As a disabled physician, who after almost dying in a roll-over MVA in 1st yr residency and couldn't do nights once I returned, the ableist replies are sickening. I did more than my fair share in the 12 hours I worked to try to compensate for my ableist guilt,

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It is F*CKING crazy that residency programs would rather LET GO of a trainee rather than exempt them from doing night shifts. Like is it easier to replace 12 months of a human than it is four weeks of nights??

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

I don't think ppl realize how close *anyone* can be to being high risk for COVID. Including themselves. Not only do ppl have overly positive bias to their health status, but there are things happening in your body you may not know about that COVID could worsen & bring to light.

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2 years

Has anyone figured out why people so vehemently against masks are downright vitriolic, menacing, attacking & threatening, while those who are fervently for masking just want to protect themselves, others & their community? 🤔🤔🤔

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

I will never, ever, for as long as I live, understand what the big freaking deal is about wearing a mask to protect yourself & others from a virus that harms brain, gut, heart, lungs, immune system, blood vessels, & also other resp viruses that are worsening healthcare collapse.

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

We need less media coverage of "travel chaos" and more stories of healthcare chaos, #LongCovid chaos, lack of protective measures chaos. Travel chaos was a choice, by policy makers.

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

I thought at the beginning of the pandemic that there was a *chance* the collective grief & sorrow caused by #COVID19 could change humanity for the better & we'd have more collaboration, empathy, compassion for others & selflessness. Instead, the exact opposite has happened. 💔

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Dr. Amy Tan

4 months

I just got COVID for the first time. I got it at work caring for patients as a disabled MD in wards teeming with COVID-19 the past month despite wearing my self-sourced N95s and goggles all the time. The same month after the "resp virus season" declared over & masks optional./1

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

You will not see me inside any building that's not my home without a mask. Nor my immediate family members. This is not virtue signalling. This is about keeping me (high-risk) as safe as poss, & keeping all others as safe as possible. Enough with the ableism.

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

I just read horrible article by an MD abt her concern re "coronaphobia". She writes that the body can't deal w/ stress hormones for more than a yr & we need "normalcy" back. Tell that to all the people who live with racism, oppression, real ongoing hardship. #CheckYourPrivilege

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

Pls don't come into my DMs to gaslight me & tell me to watch my tone when I'm outraged regarding systemic inequities towards racialized communities as an Asian female physician. I would have likely bowed down 5 yrs ago but not anymore. I will not be silenced anymore. #EndRacism

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

The antidote to racism & white supremacy is anti-racism, not tolerance & middle ground. We can't tolerate racism. This is not political. This is about humanity. To appease, minimize, stay silent about racism is to condone, enable & support racism. There's no middle ground.

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

Time to reinstate an indoor mask mandate. Govts cannot say that "highly recommend" is enough. It is NOT. The desire to not stick out is psychologically powerful. Make it easy for everyone. Mandate masks, curb BA5 in time for schools to be safer. Have the courage to do it.

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

Don't think anyone who's saying that schools must delay reopening so that ventilation, filtration, n95s, vaccines can be max'd for teachers & students is saying schools are not essential. Schools ARE essential. But govt/society has FAILED to protect schools as essential so this1

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

Physicians who are saying that *everyone* will get #COVID19 (so let's stop even trying to reduce transmission through masking & ventilation, or thinking about equity), please directly address what your thoughts are regarding #LongCOVID & cumulative effect of multiple infections.

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

TY to 7 ppl I encountered at post office today. I was in N95, EVERYONE ELSE was masked, door was propped open, ppl were still waiting outside to ensure no crowding. You gave me hope that there are ppl listening to science, knowing the threat isn't over AND ppl care about others.

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

If people still think that wearing a mask is such a hardship that it should only be seen & used as a last resort, then I can't stop being worried about the collective strength & resilience of society to deal with the real adversity & challenges ongoing & ahead facing humanity.

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

Check in on your Black, Indigenous, Asian, racialized, Muslim & Jewish friends/colleagues right now. We weren't ok before this weekend. We definitely are not ok now.

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

"There was no toilet, no food or water,” [on a bus] w a grp of 20 men from Africa, Bangladesh & India. “There were some shops but they were selling water or whatever only for Ukraine ppl. If you are a foreigner they said, ‘Sorry I cannot sell to you.’”

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Africans and Asians fleeing Ukraine subjected to racial discrimination by border guards

Videos showing Africans being pushed back from trains and border crossings have gone viral on social media, causing an uproar and sparking statements of concern by African politicians and officials

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

After 3 wks at school & school bus w Flomask on, lunch outside, portable air purifier, our middle-schooler has tested +ve w +sore throat. We've escaped this as family household until today. I had called begging for his 4th dose 10d ago as he's 7.5 mos from 3rd shot. Denied. /1

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

It's so rich to be so scared of possible variants from [enter non-white dominant] country (over last 3 yrs to present day), but not fear at all the variants that North America and Europe have facilitated the development of through its "let it rip" policies for #COVID19 . #Racism

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

If "masks don't work & schools are safe", how have I managed to keep away from COVID this whole time as an MD seeing pts inc diagnosing+treating pts w COVID (w masks & goggles) amongst masked colleagues, while my son got COVID at school as the ONLY person masked in his class? 🤔

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

Flight attendant: Is there a Dr on board? Me: Hi, how can I help? Flight attendant: Um, no, I need a *real* doctor. There's a podiatrist & dentist in First Class helping. Me: (in Coach with my family) I'm an MD, so I think I can help. (She didn't believe me). #ILookLikeADoctor

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

This yr, I'm embracing my Cantonese heritage. My name is Amy Yuk-Ying Tan (yuk=jade) 譚玉英. After decades of hating my middle name+denying my identity, I'm embracing it as an outspoken Asian woman with this jade flower pendant. And instilling Cantonese pride in our son.

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Dr. Amy Tan

4 months

COVID is not a seasonal virus. I've worn n95s and goggles ALL THE TIME for 4.5 years. I only drink water at work OUTSIDE. As a disabled person, not only has it worsened my pre-existing issues I have to live with everyday, it completely knocked me off my feet and mobility aids/2

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

One last point before I handover patients to my colleague now: INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY DOES NOT WORK FOR WHAT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE SYSTEM TO MANAGE FOR ALL OF SOCIETY.

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

I think physicians who go to meetings or conferences indoors maskless are consciously or subconsciously flaunting their privilege gained from being physicians. We should be role-modelling ethical behaviour, not acting as though we are invincible & ableist. There I said it.

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Dr. Amy Tan

4 months

@CMA_Docs @DoctorsOfBC for healthcare workers? Why are we put in harm's way with no masking, no air ventilation monitoring/ optimization, no mitigation of any COVID risks in hospitals/healthcare facilities? It's already incomprehensible that we are not doing everything to mitigate risk for patients!/4

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

I really don't understand how in the Western world we've degraded to a point where wearing a mask is an undue hardship. Honestly. #cdnpoli #COVID19

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Dr. Amy Tan

4 months

because it has hit me so hard, and it's affecting me daily as I return to work after finally testing negative. With all the calls for the dire need for supporting and increasing the #HumanHealthCareResources @CMA_Docs , @DoctorsOfBC why are there not calls for safer workplaces /3

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

This is a friendly reminder to Canadians, please, to NOT conflate people in Canada of Chinese ancestry (many/most of whom are Canadian citizens, who have ZERO connection to C*CP) with the actions of the Ch*inese govt. #EndRacism #WeAreNotAMonolith

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

I'v had marathon runner pts who had heart attacks/strokes. Pts who are fit, never smoked or had alcohol, done nothing overtly deemed unhealthy and get cancer. Injuries causing organ damage. Having a false sense of invincibility & lack of respect for mortality is unhelpful.

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Dr. Amy Tan

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At the point already as a palliative care physician where potential #LongCovid is regularly on my differential diagnosis list or a potential root cause not related to the patient's original life-limiting diagnosis in consults. Not 5-10+ yrs from now as I had anticipated. Now.

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

I do not want a repeat of Jan 2020 when in the lead up to the Lunar New Year, I got emails from my then-workplace to ensure that "Chinese people celebrating with family & friends be vigilant in not coming to work if you have symptoms to protect [non-Asians] at work." #xenophobia

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

Need to say as an MD, that those MDs who are dismissive of #longCOVID as psychosomatic, masks as nuisance, downplaying #COVID19 in general are perpetuating the long-standing racist, ableist, privileged biases that make the public distrust MDs. We must do better as a profession.

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There's a big 🇨🇦 med conference on now. As an MD who has been disabled since 1st year residency, all 20 yrs of career, I'm saddened to see 0 masks in conf pics. There ARE MDs disabled/chronically ill/clinically vulnerable who won't feel safe. Equity includes disability justice.

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Dr. Amy Tan

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My husband & I are negative & symp free so far. 1) Don't tell me it's not spread in schools. 2) I've been working in an outbreak ward for last month & have been safer at work than my kid at school. 3) Let us have ANY booster at 3-6 months. Enough hoarding/gatekeeping./3

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

Please show me the study that shows that sitting down in an indoor space unmasked to eat protects you from an airborne virus (whose current variant is 4-8 times more contagious than the previous variant.) These measures are just rearranging the chairs on the Titanic. #COVID19BC

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4 months

@CMA_Docs @DoctorsOfBC I'm a disabled physician who cares for elderly, seriously-ill and dying patients, who by definition are some of most clinically vulnerable patients. I do everything I can to not my patients' health by passing on something to them, which my consistent masking helps with./5

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

Newsflash: Wearing a mask is not oppression. Wearing a mask is not a hardship. Wearing a mask is not suffering. I can't talk about the *real* suffering my patients today are enduring (due to privacy) & that HCWs bear witness to daily. Truly unbearable suffering.

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Dr. Amy Tan

4 months

@CMA_Docs @DoctorsOfBC I mask to keep my patients safe, while trying to keep myself safe. I cannot care for my patients by "staying at home" as I've been told. Everyone who knows me, works with me IRL knows I'm extremely careful and is surprised that I got COVID. ONE-WAY masking is not enough/6

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

Canada: where field hospitals are used instead of #PaidSickLeave , a 13 yo girl died at home & politicians deflect their negligence, so many are trolling those sounding the alarm & demanding their "convenience" to shop, play golf while ppl who don't look like them suffer & die.

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3 years

I honestly don't understand how ANY Canadian can say that racism doesn't exist here. That they can't see racism happening every single day. It's literally & figuratively killing BIPOC: vaccine inequity, who's in ICU, who can't isolate, who can't stay home when sick. #EndRacism

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

The repeated, premature rush in Western societies to get rid of masks is not only flawed scientifically with all the evidence that #COVIDIsAirborne & very much still a threat, but its roots in Orientalism by the West is steeped in colonialism & racism. There I said it.

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4 months

@CMA_Docs @DoctorsOfBC especially when you're walking into a place full of COVID and one of a handful of people masking, and the only person with an N95. This puts the inordinate, impossible burden on disabled people to attempt to protect themselves. My family did not get sick & serially tested neg /7

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4 months

@CMA_Docs @DoctorsOfBC There is no "going back to 2019" for me. I have had to ADAPT to a new reality, frankly made so much harder because my profession refuses to adapt. My family who lives with me as a disabled MD has had to adapt to help keep me safe and functioning well enough so I can work./10

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

My family will be wearing n95-type masks for foreseeable future, regardless of mandates. We don't need a mandate to protect ourselves from #COVID19 , esp me, who has a disability so trying to avoid #LongCOVID risk. We don't need a mandate to protect our community & neighbours.

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

It is PAST TIME to REINSTATE MASK MANDATES INDOORS. For the sake of the collapsing, yes collapsing, healthcare system. COVID is NOT OVER, despite us all wanting it to be. #bcpoli #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #COVID19

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

I need more white Christians, atheists & agnostics (ie not a religious minority that faces persecution) on my Timeline denouncing the wh*te s*prem*cy & racism that this parade is really about. There I said it.

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

A "cold" that causes clotting dysfunction, vascular (blood vessel) effects and memory/learning deficits due to the effects on the brain and a whole host of ongoing, debilitating effects for 10-25% of those who get it. Right. #bcpoli #LongCovid

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Dr. Henry says the province is treating COVID more like the common cold. "We cannot limit all risk. It is part of what we will be living with. We can use all the layers of protection." #bcpoli

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2 years

4)Kids need school & activities for their formative development in their formative years. Make them AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE via #CleanAir & #Masks for EVERYONE! 5)If you're going to go all in on vaccines, then for eff's sake, let us have autonomy on when to get our shots. #bcpoli

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@CMA_Docs @DoctorsOfBC I would argue that this makes me a better doctor because I know how patients feel. I have not only empathy but lived experience of surviving an ICU stay, years of rehab, and now chronic illness and disability management, fighting for investigations & diagnoses, /12

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@CMA_Docs @DoctorsOfBC as I isolated right away from them. I haven't been on a plane since Jan 2020 despite previously travelling monthly for work before this (meetings & conferences made completely inaccessible for those with chronic illness/disability with return to in-person with zero mitigation/8

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

Fellow Canadian settlers: Seeing many harmful tweets expressing "shock" at this. The time to feign ignorance is over. It won't be tolerated anymore. Stop harming Indigenous ppl as they're processing their grief & trauma by denying & trying to gaslight them. See the TRUTH 👇🏽/1

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

A word about privilege: Just because you can't "see the problem", doesn't mean "the problem" doesn't exist. Privilege is blinding.

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

How AMAZING would it be if @WHO , public health, govt leaders would say, "Mask indoors-it may seem like a chore but it's NOTHING vs living with ongoing dizziness, SOB, pain, brain fog, issues w heart/lung/brain issues, & not knowing what your body will be like on any given day."

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@CMA_Docs @DoctorsOfBC My health, my daily functioning, and my livelihood are at stake when I go into work EACH AND EVERY time because I'm a disabled human being, and thus a patient first. Doctor, second. /11

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@CMA_Docs @DoctorsOfBC and no masks is a whole other thread). I haven't eaten in a single indoor venue since March 2020. I have attended a handful of work meetings where I've taken my meal outside to eat alone, if I'm not able to skip the meal-time all together. /9

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Dr. Amy Tan

4 months

@CMA_Docs @DoctorsOfBC @CFPC_e It's time to reckon with the fact that there's a tacit assumption that all MDs are abled, invincible and made to work like robots immune to what can occur to any human being. Disabled physicians benefits patients and our profession./end #ProtectDisabledPhysicians #StopIgnoringUs

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3 years

What an incredibly positive impact @DrNadiaChaudhri has had on the world. Thank you for what you brought to this world. Holding space for her Sun and Moon and all who knew and loved her.

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2 years

This week in hospital could only be described as crumbling chaos. Patients are SICK. Staff is BURNT OUT. Teams are UNDERSTAFFED for SAFETY. Many tears amongst team. Try not to land in hospital. I have no decorum left to tell you what I think of lifting of any isolation rule.

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Dr. Amy Tan

4 months

@CMA_Docs @DoctorsOfBC fighting to be believed by my own colleagues in my profession, and to be treated, now with several off-label meds because I must to help my body function for me to be able to work. The profession needs MORE disabled doctors to be caring for patients, not less./13

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#YallMasking has been such a balm to my distressed soul. 🙏🏽 for showing me, & the world, that we masking ppl are still out there, that ppl ARE capable of caring about our own health AND the health of others, & acting with integrity. Thank you for this gallery of #collectivecare .

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Someone who harmed me irrevocably will be at small grp session I'm giving. I will now change my talk so that I don't share any personal stories that help make a pt (which have gotten great feedback in other talks) as I don't feel safe. Don't tell me violence is only physical.

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3 years

I have NEVER taken my masks off at work. I sip water via metal straw & cup. I eat outside or in my car alone. My patients have only seen my eyes behind goggles in 21 mths (have smile button.) Seeing pictures indoors w mask off & smiling is jarring. Because #COVIDisAirborne

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@CMA_Docs @DoctorsOfBC @CFPC_e chronic conditions. Now I got COVID at work & am holding my breath worried what the long-term impact will be on my already worsened baseline since the acute infection. Deliberately making my workplace a hazard w/ a mass-disabling virus allowed to run rampant is negligent/15

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I spent the week informing my friends & colleagues that I'm leaving Alberta in Nov after giving notice. I also informed my wonderful patients that I can't be their family physician, but that they will be in great hands w my clinic colleagues. Bittersweet. #abdocs4patients #ableg

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4 years

I'm so sorry, Alberta. 1584 is the equivalent of >5000 cases in ONE day in ON when you take into account the population is 3.3x that of AB. The lack of action by the govt to protect its people, protect the healthcare system & its healthcare workers is criminal. #COVID19AB

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New COVID cases today: Quebec: 1,154 Ontario: 1,534 Alberta: 1,584 We’re number one. I couldn’t be less proud. And I couldn’t be more worried.

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@CMA_Docs @DoctorsOfBC Thus, the profession @CMA_Docs @DoctorsOfBC @CFPC_e must protect disabled physicians (and all physicians in doing so) by leading the call for safe workplaces. I was just denied more disability insurance because of my 20+ years of disability after an MVA & related/subsequent/14

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

That even during active invasion+war there is blatant racism against Black ppl fleeing the same war-ravaged country as white ppl is just too much to process. But we will bear witness. And fight against war AND racism. EveryONE deserves to escape if they can. #SharedHumanity

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

I can't get over the cognitive dissonance of hospital holiday events with food & mingling, and the disaster unfolding before our eyes. I can't. The outright denial by PH of dire situation is unforgivable. It also *actively* excludes disabled ppl from *any* event, even w a mask.

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

I grieve that in 2021, billionaires launched their phallic vanity projects to "Space" when those resources could have vaccinated the world ~ending the pandemic while not worsening climate change~ while neoliberalism+capitalism stopped needing to hide as rulers over human health.

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

I love that I'm tweeting about masks and people come on here and start spewing misinformation about vaccines. We all know that masks are not the same as vaccines, right? Just checking. And yes they're different, but they're both helpful as layers of protection. Thanks.

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

I'm calling for a moratorium on wishful thinking, willful ignorance, toxic positivity & downright gaslighting + downplaying about the #Delta variant, kids' safety in schools, and the fact that #COVIDIsAirborne . #COVID19

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

In the last 24 hrs, we've seen that police are capable of de-escalation and non-violent restraint of people--huge groups of people who are emotionally charged zealots. Yet, it couldn't be done for one Black man today. Tell me that #SystemicRacism doesn't exist. #cdnpoli

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around 4pm @CalgaryPolice killed a Black man by shooting him 3-6 times in the chest. he was pronounced dead on the scene by EMS. this happened in the Forest Lawn area of #yyc

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Dr. Amy Tan

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@CMA_Docs @DoctorsOfBC @CFPC_e for our profession. Think of the layers of increased risk that disabled MDs must carry: being denied financial supports if health conditions worsen by being denied disability insurance while already forcing disabled doctors to return to work before appropriately convalesced/16

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Dr. Amy Tan

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@CMA_Docs @DoctorsOfBC @CFPC_e because we have no sick leave, but also a shortage of colleagues already on the schedule so there's no one who can step in and cover for more than a day or two at most. It's mindboggling and cruel. How does this help with the #HumanHealthResourceCrisis ?/17

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Dr. Amy Tan

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I had an MRI in Dec & wasn't allowed to wear my N95 (Vitacore says on box it's MRI-compatible). They gave me a surgical mask w nose wire removed. Had another MRI yest & asked if there's a way they could check; they brought out a big magnet 🧲 & was allowed to wear it this time!

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@CMA_Docs @DoctorsOfBC @CFPC_e How does this help with #PhysicianWellness when the profession doesn't recognize that disabled physicians exist within our profession, who are contributing empathetic care to our patients because of what we have to do to be able to function to care for patients?/18

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

As a highly sensitive person, I've always known that I feel deeply & am hurt a lot when empathy is not returned. But isolation of knowing that so many ppl are fine to exclude ppl like me who can't afford to have worsening symptoms similar to #LongCovid is a diff level of despair.

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He knows this isn't his fault. He knows we're proud of him for being the *only* kid in his class and one of 2-3 on the bus to mask, eat lunch outside, bring his air purifier. Hoping he will get through this & that windows/HEPAs/masks will keep my husband and I from getting it.

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@CMA_Docs @DoctorsOfBC @CFPC_e You say @CMA_Docs 's focus is on preventing MD burnout & health equity for our profession. Don't you think working in a hospital/facility that can give you a further disabling virus is a huge source of stress, burnout, & inequity via the ableism? /19

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4 months

Congratulations and welcome to @jossreimer who joins @DrKathleenRoss1 as CMA President. With the #CMAagm shifting to May, we will benefit from the transformative leadership of two presidents until August.

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2 years

Going on private for a bit. The mask tweet has gotten in hands of American MAGA ppl who are violent/racist/misogynistic/xenophobic (ps I'm not a Chinese spy🤦🏻‍♀️)/selfish so I'm giving myself the gift of peace;also why I limited replies to it. I stand by it. Not afraid, just tired.

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

Every death of a person that should have received surgery or ICU care right now in AB should be counted in the number of deaths due to #COVID19 because that’s the truth. I’m so very sorry, Alberta. I weep for you esp my friends doing impossible things right now. I’m here for you

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

Thank you to the gym enthusiasts for teaching me that gyms are essential b/c *it's not the same caliber of workout otherwise*. We're in a pandemic. Life can't be ideal for one part of the population while being 100 times less than ideal for others. That's my point.

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

Has *anyone* in govt/PH *actually* given a valid reason for why masks are so unacceptable a layer of protection? That they rushed to prematurely remove them when they *actually* would help all interactions indoors in schools & work be more safe? I know it's a reminder that /1

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

A reminder that just because a person may be racialized (Black, Indigenous, South/East Asian, Middle Eastern, mixed-race etc), doesn't mean that they are anti-racist. The seductive power of white power/privilege means without active resistance, they can prop up white supremacy.

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

Started my new position today as Director, Teacher Assessment & Support in UBC Fac of Medicine's Faculty Development office. Very excited to support teachers and learners, and include praxis of equity & inclusion in this work! Grateful for the warm welcomes. #NewBeginnings

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

Canadians must wake up and realize our country is not what they believe it to be. That pediatric ICUs are at 200% capacity and bullies are intimidating school boards re masks is extremely chilling. This is TODAY. Stop believing that our societal crimes are in the past.

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

This isn't about freedom. This is active & overt oppression on full, unapologetic display that is threatening HCW, Black, Indigenous, racialized ppl, ppl of non-Christian faiths, disabled ppl, LGBTQ2S1A+, elderly ppl. This has been emboldened by prov mishandling of the pandemic

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

Locking down to protect my peace. Not because I'm scared or don't stand by what I have tweeted, but because I'm setting some boundaries & locking my doors to stop the bullies.

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Dr. Amy Tan

4 years

Wasn't going to post this. But given all the discourse that I saw on both TV & social media on Canada Day re the denial of all forms of racism in Canada, that national pride was argued by some as mutually exclusive from acknowledging of colonialism/racism, I feel I need to. 🧵1/?

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

Please, please, please send them directly to the people. Please. Or ask NS how they've distributed to the people and ensure that all provinces do the same. #COVID19

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

West spent 3 yrs using racism to describe COVID-Zero in China, now that they've literally gone to let 'er rip of West, there's racism & xenophobia a) gasp- they're travelling & bringing it to our [Western] countries b) how dare they affect supply change. #YellowPerilPersists

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

🧵I support MAiD for ppl who have all their needs met to thrive in society. I do assessments for MAiD (not provision) as a palliative care & family MD. I see a repetition of same mistakes. So much push for MAiD without concurrent resources & education put into alternatives./1

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Dr. Amy Tan

4 years

The utter rage on my Twitter feed is palpable by my Albertan friends & colleagues. Such a slap in the face for all who have/still sacrifice by following the rules & those on the front lines of healthcare & society. Utter lack of integrity+moral leadership by @jkenney UCP govt

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Dr. Amy Tan

4 years

Plea to any clinician treating pts w terminal illness: PLEASE don't say/write "there's nothing more to do" or "no treatment options left". As I told family of new #hospice pt today, to their tears of relief, we TREAT symptoms & CARE FOR ppl right to their dying breath. #hpm

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

If I had a toonie for every time a white person (usually men, some women) gave me unsolicited advice here on how I should couch/tone/frame my tweets regarding the existence of #systemicracism , daily racism, gendered racism, I could quit my day job. Thx for proving my point, tho

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Dr. Amy Tan

4 years

My full name is Amy Yuk Ying Tan- 譚玉英 (where there's no Amy). Growing up in Richmond, BC before there were a lot of Chinese people there, I was called "Amy Yuck" or "Yucky"; it was mispronounced++ That hurt was so deep that I tried to remove my middle name from my MD Degree/1

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

Canadians should have been ashamed when we didn't protect our elders esp in LTC. But we weren't. Canadians should have been ashamed when we didn't protect our under-protected essential workers. But we weren't./1

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Dr. Amy Tan

3 years

Hearing of so many people who've avoided COVID until now, getting it now. Is it because of the failure in public health messaging? That #COVID19 IS NOT OVER?!???!

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Dr. Amy Tan

2 years

People died in a tragic bus accident on Christmas Eve, the weather is causing people to be in harm's way & without power, there's a healthcare crisis that keeps getting worse, but the news has ++ stories on ppl who've lost their luggage or are stranded in warm climates. Ok, then

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