Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC @gabefabreau Twitter profile

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

Our hospital is so full that much of our emergency department has been displaced to our tent (aka temporary field hospital). We have admitted patients in the tent also. It’s v. busy. Prudent would be to allow us some breathing room before the “Best Spring Ever!” #abpoli

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

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1 year

#UCP privatized our hospital cafeteria. No food for those on weekend call. A disaster, just like the lab. How are we supposed to recruit & retain #healthcare staff when we can’t even feed them as they work 24/7? #abhealth #abpoli #ableg #abelxn23

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

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3 years

My MD colleague in hospital today: “wailing about your freedom for the tiny inconvenience of wearing a mask so that others don’t get sick or die is the least Canadian thing I’ve ever heard of…put your flags away” #COVID19 #abpoli

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

Me: “There’s a relatively high risk you may have permanent lung scarring from your severe #COVID infxn. <2 weeks ago you were proned, paralyzed & ventilated, but I’m glad you survived” Pt. w tears welling: “I thought it wasn’t real. They said it was just a flu” Me: “they lied”

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

1h into a 16h overnight #COVID19 shift & things are not good: 7 new pts today alone 14/20 pts. on or near max O2 Almost all <60yrs old Pts in their 20’s Every pt. #ICU eligible ICU ++ overflowed Almost all B117 & Nowhere near peak hospitalization yet #COVID19AB #StayHome

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

10 months

Left my house at 0700 for weekend hospital call. Just got home 22:35. Caring for most patients I’ve ever had. Single rooms now triple, pts crammed everywhere, COVID spread through hospital. ED has x60 in wt. room daily. #healthcare #abhealth

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4 years

After 12d of 🏥 and #COVID service caring for dozens of pts. The last thing I have to do is make this call @AHS_media , b/c my favorite, sweetest pt. just died from COVID. I’d ask every anti-masker to make this call, but I’m too damn exhausted. We’re not OK in #AB #COVIDAB

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

Tired of watching #COVID19 cause suffering and divide neighbours in #AB I wrote my first Op-Ed. #COVID19AB

Opinion: How my childhood lessons from southern Alberta can help us defeat COVID-19

calgaryherald.com

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

4 years

Took a pt. admitted for something else, but found to have #COVID19 . They had symptoms for days prior to admission didn’t tell anyone in hospital. They never wear a mask out & just exposed >20 #HealthcareWorkers . I asked why, they shrugged 🤷🏽‍♂️ Not cool! #COVID19AB #WearAMask

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

Our hospital is far over capacity. Many admitted pts. waiting in ED for beds which backs up & increases ED wait times dramatically. #ICU busy but not crisis We all want #publichealth measures loosened, but should be led by data. Doing while hospitals ++full affects care 4 all.

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

2 years

Overheard from our nursing leaders today in hospital: “What are we supposed to do? Where are we supposed to put these people? It’s never been this bad in the pandemic. It’s awful!” #healthcare #COVID19 #MedTwitter

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

1 year

The parents of infected kids to premier: “When did the ability of businesses to continue running become the priority over the safety of the public, especially our children? Is this what we can expect as the UCP continues to ‘cut the red tape?’” #abpoli

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

0456: 5th admission another young person in their 30s, using last optiflow machine in hospital trying to keep them off a ventilator. x2 more pts. Decompensating on #COVID ward. I hate this virus

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

8 months

Good summary of the truth vs. fiction re: trans care 1. Upper/lower body surgery already nearly non-existent in #AB 2. Puberty blockers are reversible & give time for kids to decide. 3. Parents always included unless abuse 4. Surgeries uncommon #abpoli

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

2 years

No ambulances on road cause they’re waiting in emerge ED wait times long b/c it’s full of inpatients Full of inpatients b/c the hospital is packed We send pts. home as fast as possible even if not quite ready Increases risk of readmission by ambulance if really sick around we go

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

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4 years

While the #UCP were on vacation, we #HealthcareWorkers were getting crushed in hospitals short-staffed, exhausted and frustrated b/c of staff exposures & infections. NOT seeing family, parents, friends or enjoying our “traditions” WITHOUT our #vaccines !! #AbLeg #COVIDAB

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

1 year

As a physician in #Alberta , I can confirm that we call the people we care for “patients” not “customers”. It’s frankly insulting to #healthcare workers to declare the quality of care we deliver depends on whether pts. pay us directly or not. #abpoli #ableg

🎗️ Dr. Hershl Berman 🎗️

@BermanPCMD

1 year

As a physician, I can confirm that @ABDanielleSmith is completely out of touch with the reality of healthcare I want to focus on providing the best care for my patient, not worry whether they can afford to come see me @LukaszukAB @charlesadler

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

After 15 months of constantly fighting a virus and ourselves I am truly and utterly exhausted. All new B16.17 variant data feels like the exact situation we were in at end of 2nd wave. How many more times and how many more lives? #COVID19AB #COVID19 #4thwave

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

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3 years

That’s a wrap. #vaccinerodeo closing ceremonies. We’re barely standing but very happy. 2280 people #vaccinated ~93.5 hospitalizations averted ~22 deaths prevented Thank you eternally to the army of staff, volunteers, nurses & MDs... & as always our patients... #COVID19AB

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

Best picture of the day by far. This is how we feel protecting our patients and community members in #YYC Does this look like #vaccinehesitancy ? #COVID19AB #vaccinerodeo

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

10 months

On w/e hospital call: The damage caused by anti-Vaxers obsession w terrifying good people w/o any empiric evidence cannot be overstated. Our hospitals are crushed by #vaccine preventable #Influenza , pneumonia etc. & good ppl suffer b/c now fear all #vaccines #healthcare #ableg

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

4 years

Did an interview with national media about meat plant #COVID19 outbreaks in #AB . Told myself to play it cool & stay scientific . . . . Called #Canada structurally racist bc pandemic mostly affects essential low-income #BIPOC workers who die so we can eat #COVID19AB @ufcw401

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

2 years we kept #COVID19 out of our house. No ventilation improvements, HEPA filters or masks in school, same at my wife’s work offices. Our #COVID19 is now essentially an #infectionmandate in #AB & much of #canada . #LongCovid exists. It’s beyond irresponsible #BestSpringEver

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

At our hospital #GIM group’s weekly rounds we talked through the details of if/when the ICU #triage protocol is initiated. We will provide palliative care to pts. who want to live & would otherwise be given a chance. These are wartime triage protocols. This was preventable

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@gabefabreau

3 years

This is Ferdi, only 7 months ago he was on a ventilator then under my care on #COVID19 unit at PLC. I got to know him & his fam I gave him 1st dose Apr 29, today his #seconddose . Thankfully, he recovered fully & now he & co-workers are #vaccinated w permission #COVID19AB

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

We officially just achieved “Herd Imoooonity” at #Cargill w ~84% of entire workforce now #vaccinated A good news story we’ve all desperately needed #COVID #COVID19AB ⁦ @annaleecoakley ⁩ ⁦ @avyse ⁩ ⁦ @tweetvandijk ⁩

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

Not a single #healthcareworker I’ve encountered tonight thinks this will go well. Most people likely don’t know that it’s not just #COVID19 but all the neglected & postponed care for everything else that comes w each wave. All care is compromised & that’s not fair to anyone

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

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2 years

My latest about the state of #healthcare in #Alberta after 2.5yrs of #COVID19 “Most Canadians may not realize our health-care system is sick. But the day they need care, they will.” #abpoli

Opinion: The quiet, progressive death of Alberta’s health-care system

calgaryherald.com

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

1 year

This is a massive E.coli outbreak from #publichealth perspective. These infections can cause HUS, a life-threatening complication, all MDs who work in hospitals fear. The majority of those infected here in #YYC are young children. This is really, really terrible #abhealth

Adam Toy

@Adam_Toy

1 year

An update on the E. coli outbreak that started in #YYC daycares, as of Sep. 11: -231 lab-confirmed cases linked to outbreak -26 patients in hospital: 25 kids & 1 adult. 11 patients have been discharged since outbreak started -21 pts with HUS, a severe kidney complication

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

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1 year

The president of @Albertadoctors today. I’ve never heard it out so bluntly: “The #healthcare system has crumbled….” “That’s what citizens should know, this [ #Alberta ] is not a good place to get sick right now.” #abpoli #ableg #abhealth #AbElection

Dr James Makokis (nehiyô), MD, M.H.Sc, CCFP 🌈

@DrMakokis

1 year

Got to speak with @RosieBarton @CBCNews today along with @Albertadoctors President on the state of health care, medicine, and physicians in Alberta. It is almost guaranteed that if the UCP is elected again, many doctors will exit the province #demoralized

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

2 years

The new plan for #AB ’s #healthcare system? ~1 specialist appt gobbles up the entire $380 health spending account, or 1 ER visit, 1/10 of a surgery, 1 month of common meds I often prescribe, 1/100 of some chemotherapies, 1/8 a day in hospital, 1/20th of a day in ICU #abpoli

disordered

@disorderedyyc

2 years

🧵Once Albertans get accustomed to Health Spending Accounts, Premier Danielle Smith wants to eliminate coverage for general practitioners, forcing you to pay for each visit to your family doctor or walk-in clinic. /1 #ableg

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

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1 year

Privatizing a previously well-functioning publicly funded Alberta Precision Labs by Dynalife was supposed to save #AB 18M according to #UCP . Instead, it was an unmitigated disaster & now, we the taxpayers, have to buy it back. How much $$ wasted? @GoAHealth #abpoli #ableg

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

Finished handing over to day team. That was the worst 17h #COVID19 shift in 15 months. But the last pt. I checked sent me off w “Thank you, thank you, I don’t have enough thank you’s. There aren’t enough in the World for all of you...” Which helps #COVID19AB

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

Amen brother ⁦ @picardonhealth ⁩ “Refusing vaccination is a right. But working in a long-term care facility, attending a… concert & having a meal indoors at Boston Pizza are not…They are privileges for which vaccination should be a prerequisite”

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

I just can't believe I'm back here again . . . "I don't know how to tell people that other people matter"

Heather Yourex-West

@HeatherYourex

3 years

Powerful words today from @gabefabreau on Alberta’s rising COVID numbers #ableg #COVID19AB (full story here: )

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

Just finished 2nd admission at end of 16h shift. A v. Lovely pt. who did everything right & got their first #vaccine dose when it was offered but unfortunately, still developed severe #COVID19 w all 4 #variants circulating in #AB , we need 2nd doses in arms ASAP #COVID19AB

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

5 years

Our #GIM group has just planned to double/triple our hospital capacity, staff a new #COVID19 ward, add an #emergency dept. service, & staff hospital overnight. All #YYC GIM staff in each hospital doing same. We are the #Frontlines . #ABdocs4patients #abhealth @AB_MD_WarRoom

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

1 year

How is this election even close at this point? It’s beyond party and specific policy and is actually more about the fundamental importance of protecting our democracy. Strict separations of power are fundamental, w/o them there is no democracy. #ableg #abpoli #AbElection2023

Kim Siever

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1 year

Alberta’s ethics commissioner has determined that Danielle Smith contravened the Conficts of Interest Act regarding Artur Pawlowski. Read the entire 17-page report here:

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

2 years

Talking to our amazing nurses yesterday while on call: “I just wished people, the higher-ups & politicians knew what it was like in here for us. If they were actually here on the ground w us, they wouldn’t keep saying everything is fine…” #healthcare #nurses #MedTwitter

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

Muddled thoughts about last night’s #COVID19 shift: majority of pts. racialized, newcomers, #BIPOC or refugees most work-related infxns or home spread from #EssentialWorkers daycare & #school related Now younger, pregnant & post-partum is scary Sicker, faster #COVID19AB 1/

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

On service in hospital during #AB 4th wave near peak and still managed to coordinate scrubs w Dr Jason Weatherald #COVID19 Research rockstar & #LongCovid clinic founder.

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

Sending my 3rd patient to the #ICU tonight. They don’t need any more business

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

Final thought on last night’s #COVID19 call. Of 16 pts. I cared for or interacted w last night only 2 were born in #Canada . There’s no scenario where that isn’t evidence of structural health inequity. Upper NE #YYC highest /capita cases in #AB for entire pandemic #COVID19AB

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

5 months

Picking the conclusions you want before you write your report is the opposite of how #science & the scientific method works. Another $2M wasted in #AB . How many #nurses could we instead have hired? #abpoli

The Globe and Mail

@globeandmail

5 months

Danielle Smith defends appointment of task force led by doctor skeptical of COVID measures

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

8 months

3 Thoughts re: #UCP plans for #LGBTQ2S kids in #AB 1. Can they not see the stunning hypocrisy of "my body my choice" re: vaccines, but not trans kids bodies? 2. This hurtful issue & fighting for straws are distractions... #abpoli 1/3 @globeandmail

Opinion: Danielle Smith has waded far deeper than expected into the social issues realm

Depoliticization of gender identity and related issues – as the Premier has long said she wanted – is not on the menu

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

2 years

Incredibly honoured to receive the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee medal from @RachelNotley & Lieutenant Gov for contributions to #AB w my dear friend @annaleecoakley Dedicated to all the #healthcareworkers who endure & work tirelessly to care & our @RefugeeHealth team. @OBrien_IPH

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

It's official! June 5-6th, Walk-up, low barrier, community-engaged #COVID19 #Vaccine Clinic. AKA #vaccinerodeo @AHS_media @cityofcalgary @OBrien_IPH @ab_vax @ChahalGeorge @annaleecoakley @avyse @AlbertaPCNs @YYCNewcomers @actiondignity @ISCyyc @RefugeeHealth #COVID19AB

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

9 months

I wrote in June 2022 & attacked by UCP comms & folks. Unfortunately, every word & prediction is true today: “Our universal health-care system is failing. Its death will not be a loud, dramatic collapse but a slow, progressive, agonizing one.” #abpoli

Opinion: The quiet, progressive death of Alberta’s health-care system

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

2 years

I felt compelled to write this piece about the paradox of #AB ’s wealth and crumbling state of our #healthcare system. #abpoli #ableg via @calgaryherald

Opinion: Alberta's health priorities are ailing when no room for sick kids

calgaryherald.com

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

6 months

It has been some time since #HCWs received this kind of gratitude and support. It costs nothing, but the acknowledgment and validation means a great deal to those of us who dedicate our lives to #healthcare and caring for our communities. #abhealth @nenshi

Naheed Nenshi

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6 months

Going into the Easter weekend, I am deeply grateful for all the public servants who keep this province going. A special shoutout to the frontline healthcare workers who are there for us everyday. A publicly funded and publicly delivered healthcare system is the cornerstone of

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

1 year

What more must #healthcare workers do to alert #Alberta how bad it is? The results of 4 yrs of terrible policy. “Truthfully, we are having patients die in the waiting room again. And this is not something that happened in #Calgary …” #abpoli #abhealth

190 Calgary doctors warn emergency rooms 'collapsing' in open letter | CBC News

"We are having patients die in the waiting room again. And this is not something that happened in Calgary for many years, by and large," said Dr. Sean Fair. He's one of nearly 200 Calgary ER doctors...

www.cbc.ca

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

1 year

Insulting all of #Alberta ’s “stunningly incurious doctors…[who] don’t think they have to learn anything anymore…” b/c we didn’t endorse unproven, potentially dangerous snake oils during #COVID is partly why we’ve lost so many colleagues to other provinces. #abpoli #abhealth

The Breakdown

@TheBreakdownAB

1 year

As much as Smith is trying to walk it back now… She made her contempt for physicians, the College of Physicians and Surgeons and evidence based medicine not long ago… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

Update from Village Square! Steady stream of people ~ they tell us that they love the “no appointment!” Dr. Fizza Ratiq is one of the vaccinators and she speaks her first language Hindu, Punjabi & Urdu. #vaccinerodeo #COVID19AB 💉

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

1 year

Attending, fellow & residents MDs on in-house call often work 24-26h q3-5d & 80-100h weeks on heavy rotations. The last thing people have energy for often is packing “lunches”. Finally, I don’t care who provides it, I want HCWs to have access to good food so can focus on jobs.

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2 years

@amandalhu @EPSBNews @yyCBEdu @CCSD_edu @moirarvane “Be brave protect our kids in schools” I’m a #COVID19 MD & researcher w 3 school age kids. It’s my supreme disappointment that as a society in #AB we now can’t even agree to protect our kids from illnesses that have lasting negative impacts. Where’s our courage? #abpoli

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3 years

Last point I'll make before leave the rage machine again. I've had multiple #HCW colleagues reach out to me in past 24h in really bad shape: completely burnt, in crisis, broken, F'd, w negative spill over into their families/homes. I've been there and learned the hard way: 1/

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

4 years

On hospital #COVID19 service this week & today it feels like a pandemic spiraling out of control. Multiple sick pts. on Max O2, many new pts. last 48h, some crashing, others died/dying. #ICU full, ward full, trying to find space. Daily cases increasing. #COVID19AB #StayHome

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

8 months

#healthcare & esp #primarycare in deep crisis, affecting ~4.8M ppl in #AB but #UCP decides to urgently impose sweeping laws impacting #LGBTQ2S community to save kids from evil #MDs 2021 🇨🇦census ~0.33% of pop identify as transgender or non-binary. So tired - “Good luck AB”

Alberta Medical Association (AMA)

@Albertadoctors

8 months

🆘🚨HOUR 5 Save Family and Rural Medicine with Budget 2024 1 doctor. 1 practice. 1 message. Dr. Michelle Hart

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

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3 years

This is Dr. Sandhu. She grew up in NE #YYC and now works here. She’s welcoming an entire family of recently arrived #newcomers w love, care, kindness and #vaccines #vaccinerodeo #COVID19AB #RefugeesWelcome #WelcometoCanada

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

1 year

This is frankly stupid & overtly xenophobic. I've learned from, studied with & helped train hundreds of "foreign students" & medical trainees. Many count among the best physicians in #YYC , #AB & #Canada . Our #healthcare system collapses w/o them. #abhealth #abpoli #abelxn23

Alberta NDP

@albertaNDP

1 year

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

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

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6 months

Analysis of 10yrs of research grants “There is simply no factual basis to suggest that federal agencies favour liberal or leftist research. If anything, social science disciplines often considered leftist by the right-wing are actually underfunded.”

Alberta’s Bill 18: Who gets the most federal research funding? Danielle Smith might be surprised by...

The ideological war waged by Smith will only endanger high-quality research void of political interference from the government.

theconversation.com

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

11 days of >2000 #COVID19 infections w 4.2% hospitalization rate in #AB means we can expect 84 hospitalizations/day or 924 total coming. No health system can sustain this #publichealth restrictions start tonight. Please #StayHome , #GetVaccinated & help others #covid19AB

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

I can’t remember being this happy since #COVID19 began. On pace to #vaccinate ~1400 workers in one day w @tweetvandijk @annaleecoakley @avyse & many other amazing teammates. #COVID19AB

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

And that a wrap day 1 of the #YYC #vaccinerodeo 1170 of our community members now protected from this virus #COVID19AB

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@gabefabreau

3 years

“You did good son. I feel much better…Would your come speak to our congregation and tell them about #COVID19 & #vaccines like you told me? They’ll listen…” My pt. who is a minister in a rural church “I’d be honoured” How to heal our destructive urban/rural divide in #AB

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@gabefabreau

2 years

@kariwhan13 @dwain_campbell This is why I wrote this piece

Opinion: The quiet, progressive death of Alberta’s health-care system

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

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Glad to see case #’s dropping but on overnight #COVID19 call again: unit & ICU full, whole families getting sick & hospitalized. Younger/sicker Tragically while many scheduled for #vaccination but not yet received. As per usual in NE #YYC , #EssentialWorkers , #newcomers

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

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We can have Nashville North at #Stampede2021 and huge crowds, but no more than 2 family members, even if fully #vaccinated , can currently come visit their loved ones in the hospital in #YYC today. #priorities #COVID19AB

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

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#primarycare For lack of a family doctor: the #diabetes was poorly treated, The feet went numb, The ulcers formed, The germs crawled in, The infection began - slowly at first, No fam dr. to ask for advice & didn’t want to go to ED, But bacteria love the sugars & multiplied, 1/

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@gabefabreau

3 years

Once the site of 🇨🇦’s largest workplace #COVID19 outbreak, today we’re delivering 2nd doses for all #Cargill workers & putting that nightmare behind us. #COVID19AB #vaccinerodeo

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@gabefabreau

3 years

Supplies arriving!! And we have the perfect selfie band-aids! C’mon E/NE #YYC ? Who needs a 1st jab and want to come to an amazing #vaccinerodeo ? #COVID19AB

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

Come on Calgary!! #vaccinerodeo current wait time is 30 seconds. We can go twice as fast but need arms to put needles into. If you’ve had yours help your neighbours/friends/cousins etc. get to Village Square @Crackmacs @nenshi #COVID19AB

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@gabefabreau

10 months

Bravo @PfParks !! Thank you for all that you do.

The Breakdown

@TheBreakdownAB

10 months

This afternoon's presser saw a lot of dodging and spin... Except from @PfParks . Everyone should listen to what he had to say on vaccines. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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@gabefabreau

3 years

I’m trying to imagine what it will be like for our pts., their families, our nurses, hospital teams, trainees, us as attending physicians. I’ve provided palliative end of life care hundreds of times, but never based on an algorithm b/c we ran out of ICU space. Dark times…

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

My 3rd last #vaccination of the night & a 17h day. Meet Chrissy & her almost newly arrived #Calgarian baby She shed a few tears she was so relieved. #COVID19 in pregnancy is really scary These #vaccines are completely safe and protect 2 for the price of 1 #vaccinerodeo

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

New experience today. Started receiving insults & threatening voice messages to my research office. Called a “Nazi…that will burn in hell for spewing gov propaganda” for saying things supported by science to promote saving lives & preventing illness Nice @picardonhealth

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@gabefabreau

3 years

ICU nurse: “I haven’t been able to wash my pts. for a whole week. It’s awful. I can’t care for my pts. like I want to or should. I’m so tired of this…”

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

10 months

At least someone reports state of our #ICU capacity in #AB . It should be the Chief Medical Officer of Health or new AHS leaders - where are they? illogical this info is couched as important for Albertans “so they can make choices” as if any pt. ever plans to be in ICU #abpoli

The Breakdown

@TheBreakdownAB

10 months

“the Edmonton zone had no ICU capacity left, so if people are sick, they have to stay in the emergency department or be shipped to the south zone or other zones” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

1 year

Precisely!! Where did the taxpayer money go? And who profited off of further degrading our already struggling #healthcare system? Would be a wonderful FOIP request by some good journalists as I'm doubtful these details will be made public otherwise. #abpoli #abhealth #ableg

Naheed Nenshi

@nenshi

1 year

Wow. I’d love to know how much this misadventure has cost the taxpayer. What were the contract break fees on the super lab? How much was Dynalife being paid under the sole-source (was it?) contract? What are the new break fees? Who are DynaLyfe’s lobbyists and their payment?

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@gabefabreau

3 years

For the trolls who insist us #MDs , #scientists , #academics and #healthcareworkers are fascists/communists/nazis/ etc. We absolutely DONT want more lockdowns (who does?) We want to protect kids w #publichealth (isolation, testing, masks) until they can be #vaccinated #COVID19

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

#COVID19 doctor here: Yelling at a virus w angry faces or blowing loud truck horns wildly does not scare it away into non-existence nor prevent it from spreading, mutating, lasting longer and generally screwing things up for everyone else. Thanks

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

#vaccinerodeo is soooo fast that current wait time is 0minutes!!! We’re going so fast the wheels feel off a chuckwagon. Come on #YYC ! Let’s get #vaccinerodeo

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

6 months

The playbook of communists, fascists & all dictatorships to control academic freedom “Ms. Smith, and her soulmates in government, will now vet any research funding universities receive from the federal government for ideological bias.” @garymasonglobe

Opinion: Danielle Smith’s Bill 18 is as cynical and nefarious as it gets

The Provincial Priorities Act smacks of sticking it to Ottawa at the expense of many Albertans

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

4 years

Infuriated w #AB ’s tepid mediocrity in this pandemic. On the front line dozens of #Emergency MDs, nurses, #hospitalists and #internists who man the ED and #COVID19AB wards are not vaccinated and we are bathing in this virus, while only 7/29k are done. Many have been infected.

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

1 year

“After wasting millions of Albertans’ tax dollars to blow up the public lab, the #UCP gave the whole thing to a private company who now wants the taxpayer to buy it back from them… Accurate summary by ⁦ @RachelNotley ⁩ #abhealth #abpoli

Alberta in talks to buy DynaLIFE: NDP | CityNews Calgary

The Opposition NDP released lobbying records that show the Alberta government is in talks to buy out DynaLIFE Medical Labs.

calgary.citynews.ca

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

Democracy sometimes demands more than voting once every 4 years. I am truly worried about the decisions being made and the potential risks to so many, especially our unvaccinated and unprotected children. #stoptheucp

𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 [email protected]

@jvipondmd

3 years

Albertans, it's time to march. 1/

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@gabefabreau

10 months

3. ICU packed full but no alarm bells going off this time 4. Influenzas, COVID, RSV, Pneumonia everywhere incl, nosocomial spread 5. Poverty worse so people get sick 6. Frontlines will eventually get sick, quit, just stop or go on strike. 7. #healthcare system affects everyone.

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

We're doing Canada's 1st on-site workplace vaccination program at #Cargill to #protectworkers . Collab b/w @AHS_media , employer, newcomer agencies, we volunteer #MDs , research #HealthEquity @RefugeeHealth @CalgaryRuralPCN @OBrien_IPH @ufcw401 @CCISAB

Alberta will vaccinate 2,000 employees at Cargill meat packing plant

Mass vaccination clinic scheduled to start April 20 at site of the largest workplace outbreak of COVID-19 in Canada

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

8 months

Again, agree 100% I absolutely love our inpatient and clinic pharmacists. They improve our quality of care, patient safety, reduce errors and are all around amazing colleagues. I do not expect them to do my job nor do I expect myself to do theirs. That’s not how teams work.

Darren Markland

@drdagly

8 months

Dividing medical professionals is a diversionary political tactic to destroy single payer healthcare and harvest social capital for profit. A unified health system is a threat to tyranny and wealth disparity.

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

5 years

Yes they did!! Big shout out to all the amazing @UCalgaryMed #MedicalStudents who stepped up to make a big impact on #COVIDAB in #YYC . Very proud of them all. #WereInThisTogether @Albertadoctors @AB_MD_WarRoom

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

1 year

This is an absolute crisis "In 2015, the ave life expectancy for a First Nation man was 67 – today…[it is] 60. For First Nations women, it’s gone from 73…to 66 years in 2021. The life expectancy of a non-First Nations man is 79. For…women it is 84."

Life expectancy for First Nations in Alta. drops seven years

From 2015-21, the life expectancy dropped seven years for First Nations men and women living in Alberta due in part to drug overdoses.

www.aptnnews.ca

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

My #nurse colleague. One of our best. “I’ve worked the past 36/40 days. I don’t really get to see my son much these days. I’ve been thinking about leaving nursing. Maybe I should do something else. It’s much harder this time [in 4th wave].”

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

What I’ve learned about media/social media during pandemic: 1. Wrote science stuff for small group of other nerds/MDs/scientists - doesn’t go far 2. Write about hospital stuff - more people read as hospitals inaccessible esp now 3. Inadvertently cry on national TV - go viral

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

4 years

“I’m almost done w this garbage...we take all the risk and get zero help...good luck running this hospital w/o us...” An emerg colleague last night re: our lack of vaccinations #COVID19 #COVIDAB #AbLeg #abpoli 1/3

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

How much longer do we have to wait in #AB before we start bringing #vaccines directly to those who need them most????!! Mass clinics, online & phone appts., kind-of extended hours don’t reach our most affected communities.

Abdu Sharkawy

@SharkawyMD

3 years

It's past 1030 on Saturday night. Lineup a good 500 deep triple looped outside. No "vaccine hesitancy" in these heavily impacted communities. Just vaccine inaccessibility & insecurity. Less barriers means more equity. It starts here. #DosesAfterDark

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

Dept. of Medicine sharpshooter gun show. Forearms are jacked from all those injections. #GIM #ID #vaccinerodeo ⁦ @CalDomMed ⁩ ⁦ @UCalgaryMed ⁩

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

Finally! My turn to #vaccinate #vaccinerodeo #COVID19AB

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

3 years

I’m livid after a horrible night of #COVID19 service. NE/E #YYC is burning & still no pop-up clinics, despite good science. Each day wasted means more young people who may not see their kids again or be disabled after. #COVID19AB ⁦ @CarrieTait ⁩

Alberta advisory panel calls for pop-up clinics in communities with barriers to vaccines

Calgary doctors and an advisory panel are calling for pop-up clinics in vulnerable communities with barriers to vaccine access

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

8 months

🇨🇦 Research Chair: “To be singling out trans youth from accessing medical care – it is immoral, it is illegal, it is punitive…It is horrific. It will have immense life-altering consequences in the lives of these young people, including death.” #abpoli

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Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC

@gabefabreau

4 years

On behalf of all of #COVIDAB physicians, nurses, RTs, OTs, PTs, porters, lab/DI/pathology, unit clerks, cafeteria staff, cleaners, and paramedics and their families @Albertadoctors @AB_MD_WarRoom @JillianRatti

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