Michelle Cohen, MD

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rural Ontario family doc | writer | Queen's Family Medicine | OMA Women Committee | she/her

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Breaking Canadians spotted at my local bookstore! ❤️❤️❤️ (Sharing a shelf with Salman Rushdie and Judith Butler omg 🤩)

By the way, don't fool yourself for a second thinking this won't happen in privatized medicine too. Corporate pharma giants are already scrambling to grab as big a stake as possible in Canada's growing private virtual care market.

"It's all about how many items we can bill for, not patient outcomes." "We're constantly pushed to hit revenue targets, regardless of patient needs." "The pressure to push services on patients is relentless." END CORPORATE-OWNED PHARMACIES

This is a truly wild (and frankly embarrassing) statement. "Few psychiatrists understand this *checks notes* mental health condition, so that means family physicians are the MDs who treat it." So the specialists aren't trained to deal with ADHD but the generalists are??? 🫠 🩺

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Will this lawsuit over a patient who was forced to endure a painful transfer to another facility to receive MAID be the beginning of the end of Catholic hospitals in Canada? I hope so. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Vancouver woman's family sues B.C. and Providence Health Care over Catholic authority's MAID policy | CBC Newswww.cbc.ca The family of a Vancouver woman who was forced to transfer hospitals before she could receive medical assistance in dying (MAID) is suing the province of British Columbia and Providence Health Care, saying the health authority's policy to ban MAID in its facilities violates patients' Charter rights.

Read more about the history and legacy of Catholic hospitals in this in-depth piece by Wendy Glauser for The Walrus. These religious institutions receive public funding like other Canadian hospitals, but they're not obligated to follow the same rules. thewalrus.ca/catholic-hos...

Faith and Access: The Conflict inside Catholic Hospitals | The Walrusthewalrus.ca Why should publicly funded hospitals get to limit access on religious grounds?

The bad place has a new logo

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Licence of Sask. doctor who prescribed Ivermectin for COVID-19 to be suspended leaderpost.com/news/saskatc... CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁 The most important health news, in one place.

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At EVERY level of medical training you get the "come to Jesus" lecture on the sanctity of medical information. It's the backbone of medical ethics. You sure as shit don't access a chart that you have no association with. And then to share it with the media is next level stupid.

Indictment for Eithan Haim has been unsealed. Remember, the news outlet where you heard it first was Assigned Media: www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr...

Doctor charged for unauthorized access to personal information of pediatric patients at Texas Children’s Hospitalwww.justice.gov A Houston doctor has been indicted for obtaining protected individual health information for patients that were not under his care and without authorization

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“Many people that I see and that I test for COVID don’t even realize that it’s still around which is a problem.” - Dr. Steve Flindall

GTA doctor sees summer rise in COVID-19 hospitalizationstoronto.citynews.ca An emergency doctor in the GTA is calling for residents to get a COVID-19 booster after seeing a rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations. “I had noticed several cases of my own patients, and we had what we ...

Stahp it 🫣

*7 hops off the schoolbus looking grubby as usual* Me: Wow, look at your legs, they're so dirty. 7: That's not dirt. Me: No? What is it? 7: It's stone dust. From the playground. Me: Lol, ok.

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Several hospitals in Canada have people who are trained specifically to help people navigate health information. It’s literally our jobs, so ask us! #canmedlibs

Hey #canmedlibs help Dr Cohen and colleagues with a list of orgs that provide patient libraries. Sunnybrook, Hollland Bloorview, CHEO…. I know there are others

"I know doctors hate when patients google things, but I couldn't resist." ☝️I hear this a lot, but (maybe an unpopular opinion), I generally *like* when patients google. I think it's good to look things up and learn about your condition or try to figure out what your symptoms mean.

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Mask bans will not stop crime. Mask bans will not stop protests. What mask bans will do is put people's health at greater risk, and make society less accessible.

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Me: I didn't study for this test. The devil on my shoulder: You can see that person's test. No one would know. No one would be harmed. The angel on my shoulder: Honesty is a passing grade. Do your best. The AI in my pocket: Try adding cayenne pepper to your asthma inhaler to keep away ghosts.

Lawn Tractor Safety Tips: DON'T: Drive tractor next to a crawling baby. DO: Place children indoors with a woman when using tractor. Be sure to wave!

Show me a pic on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie

Lilac jam

Had a wonderful time last night talking about our book, reading an excerpt from my chapter, chatting with attendees, signing book copies and *finally* meeting some of my fave doctors and social media folks! 🥰 @nilikm.bsky.social @placentadoc.bsky.social @dfisman.bsky.social @coopspeak.bsky.social

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Delighted to chat tonight with these fabulous Canadians who wrote about the #Covid19 pandemic in #BreakingCanadians. If you read our book and weep, turn that sorrow into action. Dr Brian Goldman @dfisman.bsky.social @docmcohen.bsky.social @placentadoc.bsky.social Dr Steve Flindall Dr Imogen Coe

I too am weary. Weary of doctors who can easily look up the guidelines on gender affirming care but instead chose to promote the dangerous disinfo that surgeries are being performed on children.

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Friday afternoon before a long weekend. This is absolutely taking out the trash. "Ontario’s infrastructure is turning to a powerful tool recently granted to her to sidestep Toronto’s planning process and push ahead with the government’s controversial, signature redevelopment of Ontario Place."

Ford government uses new powers to sidestep Toronto’s say in Ontario Place plans | Globalnews.caglobalnews.ca The new order will effectively replace the local planning process and puts the province's plans for a spa, concert venue and science centre at the waterfront close to reality.

Medical journals circa 1870 on why women couldn't possibly become doctors: ✅ women hate each other too much to be colleagues ✅ lady doctors will lead to incels And my personal favorite: ✅ men can cure disease with the sheer power of their manliness - no medical skills needed

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Further on the link between anti-vax conspiracy theories and the newest wave of transphobia. medium.com/@michelle.co...

Spinning a Conspiracist Web to Support Anti-Trans Protestsmedium.com Conspiracies theories about children being victimized support the core disinformation of the anti-trans movement

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Thank you for this episode! For anyone interested in the medical disinfo discussion around gender affirming care, please give this episode of Body of Evidence a listen. bodyofevidence.ca/trans-people...

The Body of Evidence: Trans People Need Gender-Affirming Care (with Michelle Cohen)bodyofevidence.ca Chris and Jonathan talk to Michelle Cohen, MD, CCFP, FCFP, an assistant professor at Queen University’s Department of Family Medicine and a staff physician at Lakeview Family Health Team. Dr. Cohen pr...

Truly a *citations needed* post for the ages. 👀

Had a great time talking to Queen's family medicine residents in Belleville today about gender affirming care. I give this same talk to every cohort but this year I've had to add a few slides about the increasingly politicized environment in which we provide this care.