Ritika Goel @RitikaGoelTO Twitter profile

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Ritika Goel

3 months

Medicine is at a crossroads. Please read our piece on the pushback to challenging power when trying to centre equity in CanMeds and more. If we want to actually move towards anti-oppressive healthcare, we need action. #meded #MedTwitter cc @SarooSharda_MD

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Ritika Goel

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2 years

*Reading a kids book about gender to my 5-year-old* Me: “Some people are girls, some are boys, some are neither, and some are both…” 5yo: “And mommy, if you don’t know, you can just say they.” The kids are gonna be alright.

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

We are missing the point if this story becomes about Justin Trudeau being unveiled as "a racist". Here is an opportunity to think more deeply about the situation and what allows it to be so. I'm not in any way surprised by the image that has been circulated. /1

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Ritika Goel

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2 years

Sending love today to Jewish people for seeing images of Swastikas all week. Sending love today to Black people for seeing images of Confederate flags all week. Sending love today to Indigenous people for seeing appropriation and mockery of ceremonies all week. /1

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Ritika Goel

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8 months

As long as I have known @yipengGe , he has been committed to equity, anti-racism and justice. He has been unjustly suspended from residency, without due process, for supporting Palestinian human rights. Please tell @OttawaU this is not OK.

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

@JustinTrudeau The problem is that this dichotomization of racist and not racist with good and bad causes huge barriers to very important conversations that must happen about how our whole society is racist, and we have all been taught and likely think and express racist feelings and ideas. /4

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Ritika Goel

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2 years

Ontario parents: Doug Ford is NOT trying to keep kids in school, he is trying to deny their right to well-functioning schools. I want the education workers keeping my kid’s school running to be appreciated and well compensated. I support the strike. #onpoli

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

North American society is quite focused on identifying people as 'racists' or 'not racists'. Being called racist is considered one of the worst labels you could apply to someone. And yet, we all live, breathe and swim in a soup of structural racism reinforcing racist beliefs. /2

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Ritika Goel

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3 years

Peel Public Health found that out of 8000 workers who contracted #COVID19 , 2000 of them had gone into work with symptoms. Let that sink in. #PaidSickDaysSaveLives #HealthWorkersFightBack #onpoli

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Ritika Goel

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2 years

I will mask my child to protect yours. Please keep masking your child to protect mine. 🙏🏽 🙏🏽 🙏🏽

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Ritika Goel

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3 years

In Ontario, to book a #COVID19 vaccine you just need: - An OHIP card - High English fluency - High Health literacy - High tech literacy - Access to Internet, a computer, a cellphone and ideally a printer - Time to navigate websites - Time off work And... and... #onpoli

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Ritika Goel

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4 years

Almost every new South Asian parent I know has named their child based on how the name will be pronounced in white Western society. I eliminated 1000s of names for this reason. This is what it looks like to have a dominant culture shape your every move. Our children’s very names.

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Ritika Goel

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1 year

BREAKING: Health care workers are currently blocking an intersection outside the Ministry of Health. We call on Doug Ford and Sylvia Jones to reverse their cuts to healthcare for uninsured people. #healthcare4all #onpoli

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

@JustinTrudeau Talking about Trudeau being exposed as a racist completely misses the point. Instead, a conversation about the structural and interpersonal racism that exists in this country impacting the lives of racialized, especially black and indigenous people, is what we need. /8

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

@JustinTrudeau This is not a means to excuse Trudeau's white privilege or ignorance. But rather an important reflection of the society we live in and has been intentionally created by those people in positions of power. Trudeau's action is a symptom of the much more dangerous disease. /7

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

The reason for the crisis is that @JustinTrudeau 's image is one of being a 'good person' who identifies as feminist, welcomes immigrants, and reconciliation. So his defenders rush to say, he's not 'a racist' because this is impossible for someone who is a 'good person'. /3

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5 years

@JustinTrudeau And growing up as a cisgender, straight, able-bodied, white male who was the son of a prime minister is pretty much the epitome of privilege. This by definition means Justin Trudeau is probably the least surprising person to have engaged in something so insensitive. /6

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

If you take one thing from this incident, let it be a commitment to examine our history, reflect on the ways you benefit from the current systems, and commit to working with those marginalized by them to break them down. /24 #cdnpoli #elxn43 #brownface #BlackfaceTrudeau

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Ritika Goel

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3 years

I feel sick that I have received the #COVID19 vaccine but teachers, daycare workers, factory workers, grocery store workers, retail workers continue to be without protection, and now are getting sick and ending up in ICUs. @fordnation has sold out our essential workers. #COVID19

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

@JustinTrudeau We are constantly exposed to films, shows, books, ads, magazines etc that portray racialized people in 2-dimensional ways (usually because people in positions of power in those institutions are unlikely to be themselves racialized). /5

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Ritika Goel

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3 years

Amazing news!!!!! CAMH is now offering covid vaccine booking to anyone with a mental health diagnosis or substance use disorder. #covid19 #topoli

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Ritika Goel

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3 years

Thinking about all the families with young kids living in small spaces without outdoor space, that will be incentivized to gather indoors to play rather than outside where it’s safer, for fear of police. So much privilege is built into today’s announcement. #onpoli #COVID19ON

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

Speaking to fellow non-Indigenous people in Canada today, including fellow racialized people and immigrants, because despite our own challenges, whether we like it or not, we all have and continue to benefit from the colonization of Indigenous Peoples' land. /1

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Ritika Goel

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3 years

Headlines focusing on AZ 1st doses being stopped due to blood clot risk are misleading and causing anxiety for those who got 1 dose. AZ 1st doses are being stopped because we have a lot of Pfizer supply and can reduce a small risk of a serious event to even less. #covid19

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

5 years

And while we’re at it, let’s talk about the flip side which is structural white privilege, which allows such actions, as it holds implicit in it an entitlement to the lives, culture, land and bodies of racialized people. (See: all of history). /9 #elxn43 #brownface #blackface

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Ritika Goel

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3 years

Dr. Williams spent his presser blaming Ontario’s current state on individaual behaviour - literally the job of public health is to recognize that bhvr is shaped by public policy. DO YOUR JOB. Implement policy change like #PaidSickDays rather than gaslighting Ontario. #onpoli

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Ritika Goel

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3 years

Canada Day can be meaningful for many immigrants who see it as a way to celebrate our new home. But we can’t pick and choose which parts of home we embrace. We too are settlers and our lives here are built at the expense of Indigenous peoples’ lives. #CancelCanadaDay

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

5 years

2. Disproportionately harsh sentencing for black and indigenous ppl. 3. Disproportionate rates of black and indigenous children apprehended from their families. - The last two contribute to ongoing intergenerational trauma through family separation. /11

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

I am incredibly proud today to join over 1000 colleagues in the health community across Canada expressing solidarity with Palestinians living under occupation, and upholding human rights and international law. There is #NoHealthUnderOccupation . /1

Palestine Solidarity Health Letter

Dear Colleagues, We invite anyone working and/or studying within the field of health and health care across Canada to sign the statement below. This letter has been posted publicly with signatories....

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

***Doug Ford's announcement is NOT paid sick days!*** Paid sick days come through legislation requiring employers to provide days where a worker can be off sick, and get paid. Ford is "working on" sick pay, which is something you would have to apply for and wait for. #onpoli

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

In case it’s unclear where to begin, here are some things we can start to address to support the approx 20% of the Canadian population that is racialized. 1. Disproportionate policing of racialized communities leading to criminalization. /10

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

4 years

Tip: If you're not sure how to pronounce a name (this happens to me on the regular seeing patients) just say, "I'm sorry. How do you pronounce your name?" - while this may feel uncomfortable, it shows you're willing to prioritize someone else's dignity over your own comfort.

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

What we need is not more 'good intentions' and learning the rules of what 'is and is not offensive', but for all people, especially white people, to understand the history and structures on which this country (and others like it) are built. /22

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

4. Immigration policies that keep especially Latinx, black and Filipino migrants working in low wage precarious jobs with limited pathways to permanent immigration status and therefore 'membership rights' in our country. /12 #cdnpoli

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Ritika Goel

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3 years

Ask yourself why someone may choose to live in an encampment in our city. These are not irrational decisions given the options available to people. If we want no encampments, we need proper, safe, affordable housing. #topoli

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

5. Political spaces that continue to be disproportionately white and male, thereby shaping policies impacting the lives of racialized people through privileged lenses that don't actually reflect our country. /13 #elxn43

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5 years

6. Media spaces that continue to be disproportionately white and male, especially in management, shaping the narratives we hear, often reinforcing harmful stereotypes thereby perpetuating interpersonal and structural biases. /14 #brownface

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Ritika Goel

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4 years

Today, as we drop off our kids worrying about #COVID19 , remember that for 100 years, Indigenous parents had their kids taken by force “for their own good” to schools where they were denied their culture, insulted, beaten, not treated when sick and *half* died. #OrangeShirtDay2020

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Ritika Goel

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3 years

Every fellow parent of school aged kids in Ontario has spent the last few days agonizing about delayed news about school plans, confusing news about severity in kids, distressing news about lack of testing and tracing. How is this where we are at two years in? #COVID19

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

Power begets power. Structural racism in our society is not an accident. Any cursory look at the history of colonization, cultural genocide of indigenous ppl, restriction of immigration for 'certain groups', active efforts to criminalize certain communities demonstrate this. /21

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

7. Barriers to employment such as a lower likelihood of being interviewed if you have an 'ethnic' sounding name, requirements of 'Canadian experience', or barriers to career advancement because you don't look like or sound like the people at the top. /15 #cdnpoli

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Ritika Goel

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3 years

Today, I hugged my mother for the first time in a year. I had forgotten exactly how she fills every nook and cranny in my body and soul, just like I needed. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💉💉💉💉💉

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Ritika Goel

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4 years

Representation matters but so does actual policy. I don't want neoliberalism with a BIPOC face.

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Ritika Goel

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2 years

Canada likes to present itself as a socially progressive haven for marginalized peoples. Let this weekend's events be a reminder of what lurks just beneath the surface.

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

5 years

11. Relationships with indigenous communities that continue to claim intents of reconciliation while not engaging with them as equal partners deserving of rights over their land and lives with dignity and basic services like clean water. /19 #cdnpoli

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Ritika Goel

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2 years

Anyone else concerned that it’s raining in January?

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Ritika Goel

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3 years

Health workers are putting this Conservative government on notice. You can’t vote against paid sick days *25 times* during a pandemic and NOT expect us to take action. This government is playing politics with people’s lives. #healthworkersfightback #onpoli #COVID19

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Ritika Goel

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2 years

Doug Ford is trying to use our kids as pawns to bust unions. Stop pitting families against education workers. We know who takes care of our children day in and day out. Parents stand with education workers. #onted #onpoli #39kIsNotEnough

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

8. Corporate boardrooms that are disproportionately white and male, and powerful special interest groups that lobby to maintain status quo or further entrench economic systems that disproportionately benefit white people due to a history of who has wealth. /16 #elxn43

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

9. Healthcare spaces rampant with implicit bias that endangers the lives of racialized people (among various groups) who may not feel they can trust providers or systems to heal or care for them as it does for others. /17 #cdnpoli

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

Those structures continue to exist and marginalize many among us - whether racialized ppl, immigrants, women, LGBTQ folks, ppl w disabilities, or ppl living in poverty. Until we lift the veil of these power structures and work to fight them, nothing can change. /23 #cdnpoli

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Ritika Goel

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4 years

I can not imagine ANY OTHER INDUSTRY where a worker is asked to continue to go to work while COVID positive (asymptomatic or not) - this is NOT because migrant workers are essential workers, but rather that their labour is essential, and their lives are not. #sdoh #COVID19

Shail Rawal

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Here it is. Plainly stated: we are prepared to accept the deaths of migrant farm workers in order to maintain the “integrity” of the supply chain and the profits of a few.

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Ritika Goel

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4 years

Nine homeless shelters in Toronto have outbreaks with 69 known cases. Public messaging has told us all to stay home. But what if you have no home? We are told to stay 2 metres away from people. But what if you sleep less than 2 metres away from other people every night? #COVID19

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

12. Barriers to higher education due to increasing tuition rates that disproportionately exclude racialized people from entering halls of power and professions such as medicine and law, continuing the cycle. /20 #brownface

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

10. Economic policies that continue to worsen income inequality through corporate and personal tax policies that benefit the wealthiest among us, who due to the history of this country, are disproportionately white. /18 #elxn43

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

1 year

Here’s our chance, Toronto. Let’s find a leader who actually cares about the health and lives of marginalized people in our city.

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Ritika Goel

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4 years

There is so much privilege and contempt in this tweet. Do the daycare workers, transit workers, food service workers, healthcare workers, shelter workers, farm workers, grocery store workers, truck drivers and cab drivers have the choice to work from home? No. #COVID19

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Good morning, Ontario. Stay home.

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Ritika Goel

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2 years

Sending love today to all my fellow POC, migrants, Muslim folks, queer, trans and non-binary folks, disabled people and other minoritized people who are no doubt feeling terrorized knowing white supremacist neo-Nazis hate us too. /2

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

Why is if that doctors going on trips to work in low income countries from the West are lauded as great humanitarians while the doctors from these countries (who have arguably been doing the lion’s share of the work there), come here and face immense barriers to survive?

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

Rich countries are not used to seeing the effects of global inequities they have created coming back to hurt them. Never forget that this inequity is why we have #Omicron today. #onpoli #COVID19Ontario

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

I’m so inspired by @Simone_Biles . Our world promotes toxic levels of “achievement” at the expense of our humanity, health and families which are disposable. The only way to survive is to value ourselves enough to say no. This is a radical act of self-love we can all learn fom.

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Ritika Goel

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5 years

Medicine is so unaware of entire fields of study that bring invaluable lenses and allow us to understand biases, root causes of ill health and also address them. It’s time we value history, critical theory, sociology, cognitive science, philosophy, literature, art. #medtwitter

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

Only 11 residential schools have been searched. Already 5000 graves of children have been found. There were 1300 residential schools. Just sit with that. The scale of violence is truly beyond words. Stats via Dr. Suzanne Shoush. #OrangeShirtDay2021

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

We talk a lot about how hard health care providers work. But one of the hardest jobs I ever had was at Popeye’s. Let’s talk more about how hard construction, retail, fast food, daycare, and farm workers work. And let’s appreciate them with good pay, sick days and benefits. #sdoh

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

Huge 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 to the brilliant Muslim woman Aziza on @TheCurrentCBC calling out the need to constantly put their pain and trauma on display without naming the actual structures like the War on Terror and torture that creates Islamophobia that are left unchallenged.

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

Politics is the #1 determinant of health. #onpoli #covid19 #sdoh

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

5 years

I’m always jarred when I go to Tim Horton’s and see almost exclusively South Asian women staff. To be served coffee by your elders working low wage jobs is very uncomfortable. And it says a lot about who gets what work. #sdoh #cdnpoli #elxn43

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

4 years

A global crisis sure has a way of highlighting the cracks in our system: 1. Uninsured migrants in Canada denied care at emergency rooms can not be screened. 2. People experiencing homelessness living in crowded shelters can not 'self-isolate' #Covid_19

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

Don’t forget that the largest number of refugees always go to neighbouring countries. There are already 1.4mn Afghan refugees that have fled to Pakistan. Lower income countries always bear more of the burden while high income ones get international press for taking people in.

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

4 years

@Nate_Lajeunesse No. I don't consider the genocide of a land's Indigenous peoples, uninformed consent in stealing their land, ripping generations of their children from their families, and denying others migration through racist policies to be how you create the greatest country on earth.

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

5 years

Thanks Twitterverse for all the lovely messages. I have also been getting a lot of hate, insults and personal attacks. Don't forget that this is also the reality of racialized people when we speak up about structural racism, giving us pause. #blackface #BrownFaceTrudeau

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

2 years

One group has simultaneously evoked terror in so many. This is how right wing extremism operates. They see us demanding our rights as a threat to their power. And remember that they ally with the political parties who most seek to end progressive policies of social solidarity. /3

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

1 year

Hundreds of doctors, nurses and health workers just went to Queen’s Park to tell Doug Ford to reverse his cruel cuts to healthcare for uninsured people that go into effect tomorrow. We cannot play with people’s lives. We need #healthcare4all . #onpoli

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

8 months

A call to *centre* values such as anti-oppression, anti-racism and social justice *in the practice of medicine* means supporting MDs to obtain the knowledge and skills necessary to address the shameful chasm in health outcomes for Black and Indigenous peoples... /1

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8 months

Warning ⚠️ EDI can be bad for your health! In this internal document from the @Royal_College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, there is a proposal from the EDI group to prioritize social justice over medical expertise. This is bonkers. #Cdnpoli @fordnation #Onhealth

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Ritika Goel

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3 years

For those calling to #BoycottCocaCola and Delta in wake of Georgia voter suppression laws, we can never forget that racism and capitalism have always gone hand in hand. Slavery, colonialism, imperialism, immigration controls have always been about money and power.

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

2 years

Whether we see it day to day or not, there is a growing extremist movement afoot in Canada. We win when we see this for what it is, and act in solidarity with one another. We win when we link our struggles together but always centre the margins. /4

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

4 years

This is terrifying.

Amneezy

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4 years

Here's a photo of Doug Ford with the Proud Boys. They once named Doug Ford the "Proud Boy of the month". Earlier today, Proud Boys members joined a group of domestic terrorists that stormed the US Capitol with deadly weapons. This is not okay.

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2 years

And we win by staying vigilant. Between us and our allies, there are more of us than them. Pay attention to politicians giving oxygen to this violent behaviour and hold them accountable. We can turn this moment into a push to fight against oppression rather than furthering it. /6

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Ritika Goel

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2 years

@NeNe_LaShaun Good to know. For me as a South Asian person who faces racism but not in the same way as Black and Indigenous people it has felt like a way of saying “when we talk about POC let’s make sure we recognize that the B & I experience is specifically important to name.”

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Ritika Goel

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2 years

Fascinating to listen to @TorontoPolice chief name that there is systemic racism in policing, then go on to show he doesn’t understand at all what that means or how it works. Beware people in power who repeat the language of movements with no track record of supporting them.

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Ritika Goel

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3 years

Sending extra love today to my “woke social justice warrior” types in psychiatry, medicine, healthcare and beyond. You make the world a better place for so many, often in the face of much resistance. Don’t let these be insults. Wear it with pride. #MedTwitter #bootsnotsuits

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

Did you know that Canada was the LAST country in the world to officially adopt the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples? This adoption came 9 years after the resolution was first passed with 144 countries for, 4 against (US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada).

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

It took just one day of unhappy parents to get back playgrounds. Time to mobilize and get #PaidSickDays . #onpoli

Doug Ford

@fordnation

3 years

Ontario’s enhanced restrictions were always intended to stop large gatherings where spread can happen. Our regulations will be amended to allow playgrounds but gatherings outside will still be enforced. Play outside safely. Parents keep your distance & wear masks if you can’t.

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Ritika Goel

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1 year

The power dynamics between a 68-year old man who is the mayor of the largest city in Canada and your boss, and a 31-year-old woman employee are frightening. That is the lens we need to see this through. True consent with such a power differential is very challenging.

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

5 years

I would love to see a shift in language away from that of “difficult patients”. Often folks who have experienced the most trauma in their lives have learned certain behaviours as a means of survival. Truly understanding this can go such a long way. #MedEd #MedTwitter

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

2 years

We win when we recognize that our identity-based struggles must be rooted in work to improve material conditions for those most marginalized among us - by calling for decent work, a living wage, affordable housing, accessible healthcare. /5

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

Twitterverse: Im very curious to hear about people’s experiences with virtual (phone or video) care. My hypothesis: We need to integrate virtual care into our suite of options for comprehensive primary care, but offer patients a TRUE choice between virtual and in person.

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

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Want to see how our system works? /1 Driver responsible for deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash fighting deportation

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

Sending so much love to Indigenous people across Canada/Turtle Island today as this revelation once again will bring to the fore the un-ending painful legacy of the Indian Residential School System in Canada. I cannot, as a mother, bear to think about what this must feel like.

Lisa Richardson MD

@RicharLisa

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There is a huge amount of collective trauma and grief today across the country due to this discovery. May the families, their nations and all survivors of residential schools be surrounded by love and support. #AllOurRelations

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

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I cannot begin to explain how much time I'm spending everyday in patients' appointments for their *other* health concerns trying to find out if they can get a vaccine, when and where, sometimes booking for them. I'm happy to support them, but this is *not* an accessible system.

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

Sending love to Ontario parents and education workers as we once again scramble at the last minute to sort out our lives and work. As always, this government’s ineptitude falls on feminized labour, paid and unpaid, to bear the burden. #COVID19 #onted

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

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Hundreds of doctors, nurses, lawyers, community workers, researchers joined migrants and refugees at Queen’s Park today to #SaveLegalAid . @fordnation ’s cruel cuts ban immigrants and refugees from gaining representation which is a gross violation of their rights! #sdoh #onpoli

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

Today, Ontario health workers stood up to Doug Ford and demanded: ✔️ 10 employer provided paid sick days ✔️ Public health not policing ✔️ Vaccinating essential workers and marginalized communities #HealthWorkersFightBack #onpoli #COVID19

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

4 years

Today, I saw a Pakistani man, with a medical student who spoke to him in Punjabi, as I spoke to him in Hindi, and the beauty of it all just blew my mind. #MedTwitter #meded

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

I’m afraid for my patients who may die because they were more worried about the vaccine than the real risk of #COVID19 . I worry I will have failed at changing their minds and it will be too late. Every day these conversations haunt me.

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

6 years

***Please help amplify this message.*** Zabia Afzal went missing May 10 in Woodbine Beach area. We need everyone in Toronto helping us #FindZabia . @DesmondCole @mattgallowaycbc @Scaachi @jessewente @connie_walker @m_layton @joe_cressy @gordperks @oliviachow #topoli cc: @findzabia

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

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Slavery happened here in Canada pre-confederation for over 200 years. Yes, that same slavery you’ve heard about in the US, and no, not a gentler version. We don’t like to talk about this brutal history so it’s good to see some formal acknowledgement.

'Hard, emotional punch' delivered by Heritage Minute video on history of slavery in Canada,...

The latest Heritage Minute highlights Canada's history of slavery and the path that led to its eventual demise — a story that "needed to be told," according to the head of the organization behind the...

www.cbc.ca

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

4 years

I received my first dose of the #CovidVaccine yesterday. It has brought up many feelings - including the surreal thought that perhaps there will be an end to all this. /1

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

4 years

Anyone else starting to get really worried about people’s non-COVID health issues!!??? #COVID19

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

Sending so much love to my Muslim friends and community members. Please reach out. We are with you. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ #londonontario

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Ritika Goel

@RitikaGoelTO

3 years

We need action now! @fordnation @celliottability - if you want people to stay home when they’re sick, legislate 7 permanent paid sick days and 14 additional days during public health emergencies. Health providers across Canada - add your voices to the call! #PaidSickDaysSaveLives

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