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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 9h

Ontario has a new way of measuring how hard family doctors work. What does it mean for doctors and their patients?

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Ontario has a new way of measuring how hard family doctors work. What does it mean for doctors and their patients? - Healthy Debate

The new “Continuity of Care” measure has good intentions but comes with severe penalties and without necessary checks and balances.

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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 1d

Knit one, purl two on the way to mental health

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Knit one, purl two on the way to mental health - Healthy Debate

Addressing rising mental health rates will undoubtedly require a range of different tools, both pharmacological and non-pharmaceutical.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 1d

#Handcrafts as a scalable (fun!) therapy?

Knit one, purl two on the way to #mentalhealth healthydebate.ca/2025/10/topi... by Jane Caulfield (yep, might be connection!) via @healthydebate.bsky.social

Studies show #knitting has many potential benefits for "mental health & general well-being.”

Knit one, purl two on the way to mental health - Healthy Debate

Addressing rising mental health rates will undoubtedly require a range of different tools, both pharmacological and non-pharmaceutical.

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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 6d

Empowering pharmacists is about more than saving emergency departments – it’s about equity in health care

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Empowering pharmacists is about more than saving emergency departments – it’s about equity in health care - Healthy Debate

Not only did Ontario's move to allow pharmacists to prescribe for certain minor ailments reduce ED strain, but it also reduced inequities in access to care.

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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 6d

The training gap undermining Canada’s primary care teams

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The training gap undermining Canada's primary care teams - Healthy Debate

While family medicine is exploring how to prepare doctors for team-based primary care, other health professions lack equivalent training requirements.

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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 9d

Was my wife’s hospital care an anomaly or the new normal in Ontario?

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Was my wife’s hospital care an anomaly or the new normal in Ontario? - Healthy Debate

I had hoped my wife would get timely and dignified care like I'd received in the past. She did not.

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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 14d

Expanding access to disability supports: the case for impact investing

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Expanding access to disability supports: the case for impact investing - Healthy Debate

Families with children with neurodevelopmental disabilities are often left to pay out-of-pocket for services.

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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 15d

We are taught to fix the system – then forced to waste time in it

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We are taught to fix the system – then forced to waste time in it - Healthy Debate

Every year, medical students across the country must submit forms verifying their vaccine history – forms that we already submitted last year, and the year before that.

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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 16d

Trust those who heal, not those who provoke:

A Seuss-style rhyme on the very real harm of health misinformation.

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Trust those who heal, not those who provoke - Healthy Debate

A Seuss-style rhyme on the very real harm of health misinformation.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 16d

"Let’s name what is harmful and who fans the flames, Let’s fact-check the fiction that masquerades as claims.

Because rhymes can be silly, but health isn’t a joke. Let’s trust those who heal — not those who provoke."

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Trust those who heal, not those who provoke - Healthy Debate

A Seuss-style rhyme on the very real harm of health misinformation.

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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 18d

‘I understand’: Words of empathy that have helped me through residency

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‘I understand’: Words of empathy that have helped me through residency - Healthy Debate

That evening, they walked me past the point we usually diverged and sat with me in my apartment lobby. They sat as I cried. They listened.

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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 21d

Black mistrust is logical and rational: What public health policymakers must learn from Black communities

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Black mistrust is logical and rational: What public health policymakers must learn from Black communities - Healthy Debate

Black communities do not need more reactive inclusion. We need structural change built from trust, not just crisis.

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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 22d

Food security is health security: Tackling Type 2 diabetes in Indigenous communities

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Food security is health security: Tackling Type 2 diabetes in Indigenous communities - Healthy Debate

First Nations on reserve have Type 2 diabetes rates three to five times higher than the rest of Canada. Yet, they remain underserved and underrepresented in health policy and decision-making.

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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 23d

Obesity and food insecurity in Canada: Two sides of the same coin

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Obesity and food insecurity in Canada: Two sides of the same coin - Healthy Debate

Addressing food insecurity and obesity together requires a multi-layered, long-term strategy.

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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 27d

Financially sustainable and fair: Value-based care a solution to pay disparities and health-care system strain

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Financially sustainable and fair: Value-based care a solution to pay disparities and health-care system strain - Healthy Debate

The gender-based physician compensation gap is more than a workplace injustice – it undermines the efficiency and effectiveness of the Canadian health-care system.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Sep 11

#ScienceMatters

Our statement: Canadian medical, research, clinical & health-care organizations stand up for science healthydebate.ca/2025/09/topi... with @cmadocs.bsky.social @scienceupfirst.bsky.social et al. via @healthydebate.bsky.social

In Canada & around the world, science is under attack.

#ScienceMatters. Canadian medical, research, clinical and health-care organizations stand up for science - Healthy Debate

We all have a role to play in standing up for science. Speak up and share your stories about how false health information is impacting you, Canada and the world.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Sep 11

How Hollywood’s obsession with the ‘Dry Look’ harms men and boys healthydebate.ca/2025/09/topi... by @docmcohen.medsky.social via @healthydebate.bsky.social

"Anxiety over perceived physical flaws is a major feature of the manosphere, as can be seen by the rise of the 'looksmaxxing'..."