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Dr Courtney Howard

2 months

Health & Health System Impacts of Smoke & 🔥 (Fig 1) A #PlanetaryHealth nest, with #ecological foundation supporting societal layers, health & health systems. Smoke & trauma impacts are at the top, from acute to long-term. Bottom line: 🔥 is bad for you.

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

3 months

I was only person I saw wearing an N 95 in the hospital today. I have two previously healthy friends who haven’t been able to work in over two years because of #longCovid . We’re in the middle of a healthcare worker shortage. How exactly do we think that this is going to end?

Darren Markland

@drdagly

3 months

Filed under things we know, but don’t want to acknowledge.

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

4 months

The thing about @ElizabethMay is that when she says she has read the full report, we know that she has read the full report. Respect and thanks for the work this woman continues to put in on all of our behalf.

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@TheJasonPugh

4 months

WATCH: Green Party leader @ElizabethMay : "Having read the full, unredacted National Security Intelligence Committee Of Parliamentarians report, for myself, I can say, I have no worries about anyone in the House of Commons. There is no list of MPs who have shown disloyalty to

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

4 years

Congratulations to the next leader of ⁦ @CanadianGreens ⁩, ⁦ @AnnamiePaul ⁩. Incredible race by an intelligent, strong woman. The first black woman to lead a political party in #Canada . I am proud. #cdnpoli

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

3 years

The most useful commentary I have seen post- #COP26 . @Schwarzenegger calls for leaders to harness health arguments to connect with communities & deliver on #climate . & for ⬆️⬆️courage to stand up to fossil fuel companies. Brilliant messaging. @MaibachEd @JayLemery @DrMariaNeira

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. @Schwarzenegger has an important message for world leaders. #COP26 🌍

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

4 years

Big day today--feels like a life turning point. Got up this AM & announced that I'm running to be the next leader of @CanadianGreens . Check out the embedded video in our website—looking forward to shaping a #HealthyFuture with you! #PlanetaryHealth

2021 Homepage | Dr. Courtney Howard, MD

Twitter Instagram Youtube Linkedin Envelope My new article: a crash-course in advocacy for a #HealthyRecovery.Evidence-based influence on policy is needed t ...

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

4 years

People...I just realized that I have no ER shifts & only one paper to finish, & no political job...SO I CAN FINALLY WRITE A BOOK!!! It's the one thing on my bucket list I haven't done yet. For a title I'm thinking...I'm thinking....A Healthy Future 😉 HUGE 🙏for the good vibes 💚

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

2 years

@EM_RESUS As Canadian #ER residents @mcgillu we actually went to @shocktrauma to practice treating gun shot wounds because it was felt we wouldn't see enough in Canada to achieve competency in treating them. I finished in 2008--have yet to see something like this in 🇨🇦.

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

3 years

13 hour train trip London-Glasgow yesterday. Irony of severe weather causing 🌲s to fall on your train’s electrical line on the way to #COP26 . Bonus—good friend ⁦ @jvipondmd ⁩ came by looking for food-& found me! ☺️to making good trouble in great company ⁦ @CAPE_ACME ⁩

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

1 year

Saw this after interviews discussing mental & physical health impacts of evacuating my home— #Yellowknife ’s 100 bed hospital & 20,000 person town. This is cowardly & weak. Safety requires ⬇️ fossil fuels. Real Canadians take care of one another & set kids up for a healthy future

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

3 years

I think this nurse speaks for all healthcare workers.

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

2 years

A post to mark the passing of legendary #Yellowknife nurse Martha Codner. She held the name and medical history of half of the territory in her head, and the community in her ❤️. When people come to the #ER they are vulnerable; Martha wrapped them in humour, skill and care. RIP

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

2 years

Multiple times last year I didn't ask about a speaker's fee--thinking the pandemic was tough on finances--& later found out the other keynote, a man, was paid well. @Melissa_Lem & I talked afterwards & decided to ask for equal treatment. Good work, Dr Lem. World, get better.

Dr. Melissa Lem

@Melissa_Lem

2 years

To make a long story short, they offered to cover my registration fees only, but extended my international (white, male) fellow keynote speakers the same, plus travel and accommodation expenses—which I only discovered when I reached out to the others directly. /7

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@courtghoward

10 months

How lucky am I to get to make good trouble with wonderful humans like my good buddy @jvipondmd . Treating the health emergency of #climatechange is a team sport. @CAPE_ACME @GCHAlliance

Robb Barnes 🇨🇦

@robb_barnes

10 months

The amazing @CAPE_ACME physician team - @courtghoward and @jvipondmd at #Cop28 on its first-ever Health Day.

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

2 years

Dr. Elana Fric was a well-respected family doctor & mother. Her children survive her & have to cope with the loss of their mother & of their family life. This story on surgical wait times risks harming instead of helping. @nationalpost @FMWCanada @DrJenGunter @sharon_kirkey

Joanna Giddens

@joannagiddens

2 years

Hey @nationalpost - surely there are classier ways to present a cover story on surgical wait times for patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome…

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

1 year

In case you ever wondered what a PM2.5 of about 600 looks like. Smoke from #wildfires : ⬆️asthma ⬆️COPD ⬆️Acute ❤️events. Long term impacts unknown. Won’t be good. 🙏 to everyone working to keep people safe from 🔥 & to decrease #FossilFuels . #Yellowknife 🇨🇦 #ClimateWeek #UNGA78

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

1 year

Thanks to @CBCNews for increasing awareness of the health impacts of #wildfire smoke and what people can do to help themselves & their communities remain well through a summer of #CanadaOnFire . The #ClimateCrisis is a #HealthCrisis . @BlavatnikSchool

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

11 months

Imagine spending a year learning economics, philosophy & political science from global leaders in a multidisciplinary cohort of 144 incredible people from 52 countries. A ♥️-filling privilege. Here’s to a world better led, served & governed. #graduation #MPP @UniofOxford ⁩

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

3 years

Supposed to snow— last day of T-shirt weather :) As we head towards Thanksgiving let’s give thanks for the fact that #Canada is a country where we have been offered precious vaccines. Let’s gratefully accept, & improve access for others. #Vaccines Cause Adults—truer than ever.

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

3 years

I won’t be sharing images, but defacing the statue of Terry Fox, a courageous builder of community who fought so hard to live—as part of a privileged rejection of an opportunity for health & a refusal to do one’s part to get 🇨🇦 through a generational challenge—turns my stomach.

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

11 months

I have never worked in a war zone, but I have had tiny babies die under my care for lack of a ventilator 💔 @JustinTrudeau @cafreeland @melaniejoly @markhollandlib Please call for a ceasefire to prevent further loss of innocent lives & allow hospitals to get back to saving them.

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@MSF_canada

11 months

At Al-Shifa hospital #Gaza : We have around 600 inpatients We have around 37 premature babies We have around 17 patients in the ICU We have around 600 postoperative patients They all need medical care. We need an immediate ceasefire.

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

2 years

Wow. So many viruses in the #ER . And an entire cohort of people who became parents during #covid19 and mostly haven’t had snurfly, feverish, ear achy, coughing kids before. We need a cohort of on-call grandmas stat.

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

4 years

Great to finally meet ⁦ @AnnamiePaul ⁩ in person. A joy to witness her family cheer her on—her Sis 💯 rocked the house & her son is so beautifully proud of his Mom. Congrats, Happy Family.

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

1 year

With 2 of my very close friends unable to work due to #longCovid , it hurts me to see healthcare workers not in a respirator mask. So many beautiful people with so much to contribute. If we want healthcare to continue to function, we need to protect healthcare workers. #Covid19

𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 [email protected]

@jvipondmd

1 year

"HCWs should be provided with respirator masks to protect from airborne disease. They are significantly more effective. All those in healthcare settings, including pts should be provided with respirators to truly curb infectns to the best of our ability. "

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@courtghoward

3 years

“When you have moms fighting for something you’d better watch out, because we are going to win.” @DrMariaNeira of @WHO 👏👏 #HealthyClimate #COP26 @CAPE_ACME @MDmoms4HR

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@courtghoward

3 years

Maybe we should ask why Indigenous languages are not official languages in Canada, and why our previous Governors General couldn’t speak them. NWT has 11 official languages. #cdnpoli #reconciliation

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

1 year

My family group chats have become a whirl of “I have Covid too, what do I do.” Mask up, Buddies.

Penny Daflos

@PennyDaflos

1 year

NEW: The official announcement is tomorrow, but I've learned masking will be reinstated in BC hospitals & clinics The word "mandate" is not in the advance notice being sent to some healthcare workers @CTVVancouver #bcpoli

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

4 years

Angela Merkel just brought tears to my eyes and I don't even understand German. This is what leadership looks like.

Richard Chambers

@newschambers

4 years

"I really am sorry, from the bottom of my heart. But if the price we pay is 590 deaths a day then this is unacceptable." German Chancellor Angela Merkel pleads with the public to follow #COVID19 restrictions ahead of Christmas.

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@courtghoward

2 years

🙏🏽 to all who have encouraged me to run for the leadership of @CanadianGreens . I view political involvement as humanitarian work that is key to a #healthyfuture . However, my 8yo tells me I'm not allowed in that arena for a good few years :) Best wishes to all the contestants.

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@courtghoward

5 years

Just laughed so loud at this that the person behind me on the plane tapped me on the shoulder & said, “I’ll have what you’re having.” At the risk of outing every medical learner ever I passed the phone back :)

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

5 years

“Why does Daddy have to work so late?” “Well, he’s pretty much in charge of a pandemic response at our hospital.” & then I looked up from grating the carrots & went, Huh. Sending props & 🙏 to all of you who are redrawing entire health systems in a matter of weeks. Proud of you.

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

3 years

I honestly don’t understand why this has been permitted to continue. If these protesters were not white this would have been shut down days ago. 🇨🇦 leaders are allowing our country to be bullied. It’s important to stand up to bullies. If we don’t, what’s next? #cdnpoli

Clara Loiseau

@ClaraLoiseauJDM

3 years

Les manifestants s’en prennent à notre collègue @poirieryvesTVA #FreedomConvoyCanada2022 #JDM

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@courtghoward

1 year

Arrived in #Canada to 🔥—unable to return to #Yellowknife due to evacuation, while AQHI=8 here in NVan due to #BCfires . Glad to brief docs on anticipation & management of #climate impacts @CMA_Docs summit. Much more education needed. @BlavatnikSchool

Yellowknife doctor feels pain of N.W.T. wildfires while attending Ottawa conference

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

5 years

This brought tears to my eyes ♥️ For those who are still preparing for the peak of the challenge, or who are battling at its apex--bon courage, mes amis. #coronavirus #covid19 #solidarity #planetaryhealth #humanity #OneHealth @codachange @CMA_Docs @CAPE_Doctors @ph_alliance

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

10 months

A wee tear listening to beloved voices who have worked so hard to take #climatehealth from an unattended intersection to an official day at #COP28 🙏 Friends. Your courage & inspiration has meant the world to me, & given me hope on behalf of my patients & children. @GCHAlliance

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

1 year

Responded to two medical calls during my flight to North America. Appreciate this note & card from ⁦⁦ @AirCanada ⁩—much more organized than last time I helped out. Thank you! #EmergencyMedicine

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

4 years

Just when I thought 2020 couldn't surprise me any more, here I am agreeing with Brian Mulroney that #Canada can beat #COVID -19 and build back better via: - #UniversalBasicIncome - #Indigenous justice & elimination of systemic racism -⬆️ immigration 💪 #Unity

Opinion: Canada, I know you can beat COVID-19

Times have changed, writes Brian Mulroney

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

4 years

Voting selfie! Submitted my ranked ballot for ⁦ @CanadianGreens ⁩ Leadership Contest with my Lifetime #1 Fan, m’Dad, cheering me on 😊 The race is close—please check your inbox for your ballot & send it in before Oct 3. #cdnpoli #HealthyFuture

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

4 years

I’m thinking it’s normal to have bittersweet feelings around back-to-school after almost 6 months in the near-constant company of one’s children🙃 Sending energy to all the families harnessing love, masks, unmatched socks & giggles for this next stage in the Time of #COVID ❤️

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@courtghoward

4 years

Back in #Yellowknife after about ten days exploring #SpectacularNWT . Ran into so many friends & neighbours as we all vacationed close to home. All are floored by the almost otherworldly beauty of this land. Here in Deh Cho Territory, at Little Doctor Lake. #HealthyByNature ❤️

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

3 years

I was thinking yesterday—there is a beauty in knowing that in the #ER we care for whoever comes through the door needing help. Makes life real simple. You’re not on your own with #Omicron . Thanks for the reminder @alandrummond2 🩺💪🏼 @CAEP_Docs

alan drummond

@alandrummond2

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

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@courtghoward

4 years

BREAKING--Proud to be officially on the final ballot in @CanadianGreens leadership vote! Thank you to everyone for their support 🙌🌎 #HealthyFuture #cdnpoli

William Gagnon

@wgagnon

4 years

STATEMENT/DÉCLARATION— Dr. Courtney Howard is now on the ballot. Dre Courtney Howard sera sur le bulletin de vote. Full press release/communiqué de presse complet: @courtghoward #canpoli #TheOtherLeadershipRace #CoHo4Greens #CoHoLesVerts

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@courtghoward

3 years

I’m feeling pretty angry that one of my Med school classmates is on evacuation alert due to #wildfires in the Okanagan & today’s Med students still aren’t learning about #climatechange & fires in official curricula How about I can’t tweet this in 2022? @CFMSFEMC @picardonhealth

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@courtghoward

4 years

I mean, masks do keep your face warm ;) Mask up, #NWT ! #Covid_19

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

3 years

Proud of #Canada for signing onto the @WHO #COP26 initiative on resilient, low-carbon health systems. Good conversation with @s_guilbeault about reducing asthma & #airpollution with coal-phase out. Desilo to save lives! #HealthyClimate . @CAPE_ACME @GCHAlliance

William Gagnon

@wgagnon

3 years

It worked! Success! Canada 🇨🇦 is onboard! Thanks for pushing— et merci à @s_guilbeault et @jyduclos pour leur support. Amazing advocacy by Dr @courtghoward #ResilientLowCarbonHealthcare #COP26

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@courtghoward

5 years

1000+ people out for #ClimateStrikeCanada in my subarctic town of 21,000! That’s the beginning of a healthy response to #ClimateChange . #Inspiring #HealthyPlanetHealthyPeople #Yellowknife #NWT @CAPE_Doctors @CMA_Docs #Doctors4Future #Health4Imate #elxn43

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@courtghoward

4 years

Saturday in the subarctic. Makin’ a rink ❄️😊

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

6 years

Framing #climatechange in terms of health impacts: asthma from #wildfires , #heat -related deaths, #food security impacts, etc, has been shown to be the best way to inspire people to act. My conversation with @spaikin airs tonight. @CMA_Docs #LancetClimate18

TVO Today | The Agenda

@TheAgenda

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"We have a much better chance of getting people to change behavior, accept different changes, if we can make it clear to them how it impacts their day-to- day life." — @courtghoward , president of @CAPE_Doctors , tonight on The Agenda with @spaikin | Producer: @GreggThurlbeck

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3 years

As truckers roll through Ottawa & good people send me anti-vaccine messages re "Big Pharma," the medical community needs to own the role it has played in a loss of trust. I never want to see pharmaceutical sponsorship of a medical event again. #NoFreeLunch @FamPhysCan @CMAJ

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

4 years

That moment when you realize that whoever wins the ⁦ @CanadianGreens ⁩ leadership race has to speak after a woman who has been nominated by her colleagues as being one of the best orators in the Canadian Parliament :) Couldn’t ask for a better kind of pressure. 💚

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@courtghoward

2 years

Packed lecture hall for @KateRaworth ’s first lecture in #DoughnutEconomics Live series @OxfordSBS . Policy & #Economics students from all over the world sharing why their countries must shift practices to enter the safe & just space for humanity. Palpable energy. #LifePreserver

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@courtghoward

10 months

Had a chance to say thanks to ⁦ @DrTedros ⁩ as he was leaving the first ever ministerial on #climatehealth at #COP28 . It was something to hear so many health ministers speak about baselining health sector emissions, & pathways to net zero. My learning? Leadership matters.

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@courtghoward

3 years

So many healthcare providers who are ++ disheartened by the #antivax protests. 1-Active praise for the providers in your life would be appreciated right now. People are exhausted & hurt. 2-How about we hold those internet giants accountable for their algorithms? 🤨 #Infodemic

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@courtghoward

4 years

One of my best friends, a former pro dancer who had a 6-pack when we were 30, is a year into #LongCovid & is struggling to walk distances longer than her driveway. Never unwell enough to be hospitalized, she is entirely unable to function. Get those vaccines. Stay home. #COVID19

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@courtghoward

1 year

I suspect many are feeling like @jvipondmd 💚 We feel individual responsibility. We need to express it through collective action. What: Institutions do we need to create & fund? Incentives do we need to change? Training programs do we require? Sending ❤️+ strategizing energy.

𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 [email protected]

@jvipondmd

1 year

I am so sad about the world and where it is going. I tried so hard. It was never enough. Please forgive me, children, animals, plants, ecosystems. This is all so tragic.

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1 year

I had a set of board peer reviews that said my leadership style was “coercive.” When more women joined the board, most reviews said I was “authoritative.” Meanwhile, I was told I was “too nice” at least once a week during #ER residency. The struggle is real. Sending energy!

Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

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From Instagram and I love love love it.

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4 years

Proud to launch our platform,"Healthy People, Healthy Planet," a vision of a Wellbeing-oriented Economy to guide us through #COVID19 & the #Climate crisis. Made nerdy by my #PlanetaryHealth buddies & I Made beautiful by @wgagnon & Co🙌 Thread 1/ #cdnpoli

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1 year

Well, I've spent the entire day in the library reading about #planetaryhealth solutions and #wellbeing economies and here's the bottom line: More of us are going to have to go into politics. I know, I know. #ThingsILearnedAtOxford

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@courtghoward

5 years

Among the things I never thought would occur: having my photo in @Chatelaine . Honoured to be included in a group of Canadian women working hard on #climatechange . Onwards! #climatehealth @IFMSA @GCHAlliance @CAPE_doctors @HIHngo @CMA_Docs @EcologyNorth

This Yellowknife ER Doctor Is Raising The Alarm About The Mental Health Impact Of Climate Change -...

Anxiety, PTSD and depression are just the beginning.

chatelaine.com

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@courtghoward

2 years

"Learning to treat the climate emergency together: social tipping interventions by the health community" is out! Our multidisciplinary, gender-balanced group from 6 continents proposes a framework to maximize health sector influence on decarbonisation🧵1/8

Learning to treat the climate emergency together: social tipping interventions by the health...

Accelerating the decarbonisation of local and national economies is a profound public health imperative. As trusted voices within communities around the world, health professionals and health...

www.thelancet.com

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@courtghoward

3 years

Drove from Oliver to Golden today. It looked like this the whole way. Wildfire smoke is increasingly thought to ⬆️overall mortality. 1-Get #Climatechange + air pollution into curricula stat. 2-End Fossil fuel subsidies. Subsidizing death & disease is unconscionable. #cdnpoli

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@courtghoward

5 years

When your parents are an #ER doc & a paediatrician who have worked overseas & with critically ill & dying children—you get vaccinated. Vaccines have been robustly safety-tested & save lives. Let’s keep one another safe. #GetVax #communityimmunity ⁦ @CMA_Docs ⁩

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@courtghoward

2 years

Last shift done! 1500km north of our referral center, locums from across Canada are keeping us going 🙏 Our healthcare system needs a #WellbeingSociety to help us out of emergency mode. Heading to ⁦ @BlavatnikSchool MPP⁩ ⁦ @UniofOxford ⁩ to polish my policy toolkit💪🏼🩺🌎

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@courtghoward

2 years

My best friend of 40 years just texted to say she's thinking of me--waking me to the fact that today is June 10th, the anniversary of my mom's death. I am so grateful for all of the women who help take care of me❤️ And glad I spent part my day writing this:

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2 years

Huge congratulations to ⁦ @Melissa_Lem ⁩, the new president of ⁦ @CAPE_ACME ⁩! Whip-smart, graceful, an incredible messenger, this woman channels her love of children & nature into work in service of #planetaryhealth in the most beautiful way. So proud of you, my Friend.

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@courtghoward

2 years

“I just got back from an elders meeting & I told everyone to get rid of whatever you harvested. Throw it out,” said Adam, adding the community was waiting on test results of its water supply to determine if it is contaminated." #EnvironmentalRacism

‘Trust is gone’: First Nation battles oil company and Alberta over toxic water

Chief Allan Adam says Imperial Oil and energy regulator ‘covered up’ failures over mine waste seeping from four tailings ponds

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@courtghoward

4 years

How about we stop investing taxpayer money in pipelines? #Time4Transition #ClimateHealth #cdnpoli

Keystone XL pipeline faces more delays as U.S. Supreme Court upholds permit block | Globalnews.ca

Canadian company TC Energy needs the permit to continue building the long-disputed pipeline from Canada across U.S. rivers and streams.

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@courtghoward

2 years

It may be the emergency physician in me, but how about adding a plan to those prayers. #climatechange #adaptation #Mitigation .

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The damage & devastation in Atlantic Canada caused by Hurricane Fiona this morning is gut-wrenching. Most importantly, we pray for everyone's continued safety - please follow the advice of local public safety officials & first responders on the ground.

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

3 years

Not good. This is the toxicologist who knows the most about #TMX . He participated dutifully in every stage of the process. Health Impact Assessment was never done well. Now he tree sits, today he was arrested. @jyduclos @s_guilbeault @CanadianPM 🙏 Dr Takaro. #cdnpoli

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

6 years

Unprecedented coalition of #Canadian health organizations calls on federal parties to view #climatechange as a health emergency, & to include treatment in their election platforms. #cdnpoli @canadanurses @CAPE_Doctors @CMA_Docs @CPHA_ACSP & @UPHN_RSPU

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@courtghoward

1 year

"It would be best to outfit all public buildings with really strong air filtration systems. There are 2 reasons to do that—one is #wildfire smoke & the other is #COVID19 . It’s airborne & it hasn’t gone away..especially.. heading into virus season" 🙏🏻 @katieunderwrite ! @CAPE_ACME

Maclean’s Magazine

@macleans

1 year

Breathable air is becoming a precious resource in Canada. Here, Courtney Howard ( @courtghoward ), an ER doctor and wildfire researcher, explains how clean-air shelters can help—and what it'll take to get them off the ground across the country. #CdnHealth

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@courtghoward

3 years

Heat-related deaths & wildfires are leading people to reevaluate climate change & what it means for those they ❤️. Here's my @TEDx briefing on why tackling #climatechange is the greatest health opportunity of our time. @CAPE_ACME #cdnpoli @CMA_Docs

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@courtghoward

1 year

Nothing like your hospital being evacuated due to 🔥to get you focused on Climate-resilient care. “It is time to produce a serious plan with near-term targets that lay out what net-zero healthcare in 🇨🇦 looks like, & to resource it appropriately.” @markhollandlib @s_guilbeault

André Picard

@picardonhealth

1 year

The awful fires🔥in the Northwest Territories can light the way to a better, healthier future, by @courtghoward @DrNicoleRedvers @DrSarahJCook via @GlobeDebate #ClimateChange #PlanetaryHealth

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

2 years

Stonehenge! I’ve wanted to come here since whatever grade that was when the only other thing we wanted to talk about was dinosaurs. Gorgeous afternoon wandering amongst fields & stones, wondering at the engineering skills & spirituality of long-ago humans.

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

4 years

The longer I watch this election coverage the more motivated I become to work on Canadian food security. 🤨

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

7 months

I’ve never been able to resist dancing on a beach at #sunset . #Tofino #Dance

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

5 years

@joonghee_emdoc I appreciate this apology. This is a systems issue. I have edited work by medical authors from different backgrounds: it is an editor's job to help avoid phrasing pitfalls. You were working with an all-male editorial board-- in 2019. #WomenInMedicine #ER

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@courtghoward

5 months

Sigh. Imagine the degree to which we could have kickstarted a Canadian clean energy revolution with CAD $34 billion.

Seth Klein

@SethDKlein

5 months

Feeling sad that this day has come: After 12 years, the $34-billion Trans Mountain pipeline - "the most expensive infrastructure project in Canadian history" - is finally finished...

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

4 years

George Michael’s “Freedom!” has been in my head as I’ve daydreamed about where to go 1st after 17 days of self-isolation.🥞?🍜? ☕️? Then a locum couldn’t get on the plane bc of fever/cough—so the #ER it was. So good, after a lot of Virtual Big Picture, to get back to the Bedside.

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@courtghoward

5 years

It’s been a quick ramp up to PPE-for-all-patients, but when you’re 1500 km from the nearest big center & locum replacements are tough to find we decided we’d better do all we can. Sending thanks to everyone working on supply chains to get PPE to where it needs to be. #COVID -19

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@courtghoward

3 months

“Three and a half million Canadians have long COVID symptoms, but you hardly hear from them or about them, mainly because they work from home, if they work at all.” @HeatherMallick #LongCovid

𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 [email protected]

@jvipondmd

3 months

"Every long-hauler is different, their body attacked by the virus from different angles and to various degrees. It’s a game of Snakes and Ladders. We get better, we worsen. It’s wrong to say we get “tired” and “sleep.” We crash and disappear"

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

3 years

Go @DiarmidCL ! Happy riding :) 🚴🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️ Many thanks to @DrTedros for this support for a #HealthyClimate . @GCHAlliance @CAPE_ACME #COP26

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

@DrTedros

3 years

Was delighted to meet colleague @DiarmidCL before he left, by 🚴‍♂️, to 🇬🇧 to take part in @COP26 . I was glad to add my name to the millions who have signed the Healthy Climate letter calling for action to address the climate & health crises. Such commitment makes me #ProudToBeWHO .

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@courtghoward

10 months

Heading into #COP28 , we invite health leaders to sign @AFMC_e Declaration on #PlanetaryHealth . We can ⬆️ambition by leading by example with: ✅ #climatehealth curricula ✅climate-resilient, low-carbon health systems ✅ Call for #FossilFuelTreaty ✅Divest

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@courtghoward

2 years

What a role model. "I hope in return I leave behind a belief that you can be kind but strong, empathetic but decisive, optimistic but focused, that you can be your own kind of leader, one that knows when it's time to go."

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@courtghoward

4 years

Just in case this helps to brighten someone’s spirits :)

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

6 years

Came on shift yesterday into a high-acuity, extra-staff kind of #ER . Realized an hour in that all ER MDs, RNs, & RT— were women. Female ERPs were few when I trained. Honoured to hold down the fort in the North alongside these skilled, compassionate women. #progress @CMA_Docs

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@courtghoward

4 years

New bilingual signs in #Yellowknife ! English and Wıı̀lıı̀deh Yatıı̀. It's a good sign :) #HealthyFuture #NWT

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@courtghoward

2 years

A real bright spot in a strained #Emergency summer: sharing an #ER with home-grown Métis doc @tdhont in his first shift as an attending after having worked with him in his 1st shift as a 4th yr Med student. I’d say I didn’t coo & get a bit teary but… #Proud #LifeInMedicine 😊☀️

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

4 years

My last #ER shift before the ⁦ @CanadianGreens ⁩ leadership vote is newly in the rearview mirror. 6 days of crisis-management, teamwork, & being present at 2am at the bedside with 🇨🇦s in need of help. I’m proud of that work. Now-focus on #PlanetaryHealth crises. Onwards! 💪

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@courtghoward

4 years

5 yrs ago I squeaked into the 🇨🇦reception at #COP21 & gave @cathmckenna an open letter from > 100 MDs asking that climate be treated as a health crisis. 😊today at the title of the new 🇨🇦climate plan "A Healthy Environment & A Healthy Economy"🙌 #cdnpoli

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@courtghoward

2 years

"We are privileged to bear responsibility for health at a moment when action taken to leave fossil fuels in the ground can play a definitive role in improving health..now (&) for all future generations." @Richard56 @ojistohhorn @CemShweta @MMamdouhEissa

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

2 years

Why I couldn’t be prouder to be a rural MD 0900: Keynote @SRPCanada on a healthy response to #climatechange . 1200: Motion asking @JustinTrudeau to shift fossil fuel subsidies to fund health adaptation passes unanimously @GCHAlliance #EarthDay #GetItDone

52nd anniversary of Earth Day

Dr. Courtney Howard joins CTV News Channel to discuss climate change's toll on mental health.

www.ctvnews.ca

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@courtghoward

3 years

When your trailer’s stove conks out within driving distance of Grande Prairie & ⁦ @AlikaMD ⁩ & family welcome you for dinner ☺️ What a pleasure to connect & watch our kids play. Can’t wait to see this big-❤️’d super smart doc installed as ⁦ @CMA_Docs ⁩ President Elect🙌

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@courtghoward

5 years

As our lives are taken over by #COVID19 , huge decisions are being made about $ for economic stimulus. We have a generational opportunity to bring to life a stable, low-carbon vision of #planetaryhealth . The alternative is more crisis. @CAPE_Doctors

COVID-19 crisis is a tipping point. Will we invest in planetary health, or oil and gas?

Amidst a pandemic, Canada is considering a massive transfer of public funds to support the oil and gas sector — the very industry most likely to cause the next health crisis.

www.nationalobserver.com

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

4 years

When your plane home to #Yellowknife goes mechanical and you end up being pretty happy to spend a day in glorious falltime #Calgary :)

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

4 years

Maybe when I grow up I'll be as good at messaging as @GretaThunberg :) #LifeGoals

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

4 years

So inspired by the science and heart that have made it possible for vaccines to be rolled out only a year after the #COVID -19 pandemic began. The next #PlanetaryHealth emergency for us to tackle with this vigour? #Climatechange ! 🙌 #PublicHealth #Vaccines ❤️

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

3 years

HUGE. #Climatechange & health has been added to the test for graduating MDs in 🇨🇦. 🙏to all who made this happen, esp next gen MDs. Many docs don’t know what they don’t know. Expect: ✅ ecoanxiety ✅”what should I do?” Provide: ✅support ✅opportunities for agency #cdnpoli

Dre Claudel Pétrin-Desrosiers

@c_pdesrosiers

3 years

Les changements climatiques et la santé sont maintenant reconnus comme un objectif de l’examen général que passent tous les étudiant(e)s en médecine du pays à la fin de leur parcours doctoral. Enfin! #meded @courtghoward @CAPE_ACME @CFMS_HEART Source:

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

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You know you’ve been a shift worker for a long time when heading to the emergency room somehow makes it feel like the holidays :-) So much influenza, peeps. Wear your masks, wash your hands! ⁦ @CAEP_Docs ⁩

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@courtghoward

4 years

Morning ski past subarctic dragons and deities. I love how this community has art in its ❤️ #HealthyByNature #NWT

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Dr Courtney Howard

@courtghoward

4 years

Celebrating a great day with some of my favourite peeps! 1-The 1st woman of colour as VP-Elect of the US. 2-Darcy Scott has handed over as Medical Director of Stanton Hospital. 3-I’ve made it to 42 w faculties intact! 🙏 for so much, including NWT Covid-control & its bubbles :)

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