1/11 🇨🇦 ⚠️ CANADA'S ER CRISIS REACHES BREAKING POINT ⚠️ 🇨🇦

Patients are spending days on overflow stretchers and in storage rooms.

The medical system is buckling under the weight of extreme overcrowding.

Source: CBC News
#MedSky #CdnPoli #CanPoli #ERCrisis #WaitTimes #PublicHealth #Healthcare

1/11 🚨 ALBERTA HEALTHCARE CRISIS 🚨

In Alberta, 1 in 5 patients abandon emergency rooms without getting treatment.

Jackie Carmichael reports that 18% leave ERs untreated—double the national average.

Alberta Medical Association calls it "very troubling."
#AbHealthcare #ERCrisis #ABpoli #ABhealth

1/9 🚨 ONTARIO ER CRISIS DEEPENS 🚨

Doctor: "You need to go to the emergency room."
Patient: "I'm not going."
Doctor: Please go … not going is not worth the risk.

Dr. Iris Gorfinkel warns this dreaded exchange is becoming more common as ER waits climb to dangerous levels.
#ONhealth #ERcrisis

BC ER reality check: an emergency doc blows the whistle on dangerous crowding & marathon hallway waits at TWO Fraser Health hospitals. A 2-min watch that should jolt every policymaker. Solutions, not slogans, needed NOW.

Watch 👉 youtu.be/9T-tgvrX5eg

#BCHealth #ERCrisis #PowerToPatients

1/13
🚨 B.C. ER DOCTOR BLOWS WHISTLE ON FRASER HEALTH 🚨

Dr. Kaitlin Stockton sues Fraser Health for $500K, claims job threatened after warning patients of dangerous ER delays.

"Patients are falling through cracks" - preventable deaths, violent attacks. Michelle Ghoussoub reports.
#ERCrisis

US Emergency Rooms Face Growing Challenges as Population Ages, Dementia Rates Rise | AI News Brew <p>AURORA, Ill. - As the United States grapples with an aging population and rising dementia rates, emergency rooms across the country are facing increasing pressure, with experts warning of a looming...

US Emergency Rooms Face Growing Challenges as Population Ages, Dementia Rates Rise
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#ERCrisis #AgingPopulation #Dementia #HealthcareChallenge #PatientCare #MentalHealth #USHealthcare

‘The Pitt’ Captures the Real Overcrowding Crisis in Emergency Rooms From the “chairs” to the hallway medicine, the show’s depiction of an emergency medicine system that is beyond capacity rings true for medical experts.. @cosmicmeta.io #ERcrisis

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had my style complimented by one of my psych patients tonight. menty b but make it ✨fashin✨

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Fewer paramedics on shift as BC Ambulance millions over budget BC Emergency Health Services is cracking down on overtime in a cost-cutting measure, leaving more ambulances than usual unstaffed as front-line workers fear patients will face even longer delays.

Fewer paramedics sent out on shift to help patients in BC - all in a bid to reign in ambulance budget. bc.ctvnews.ca/fewer-parame... @PennyDaflos @ctvnews #ERcrisis

cc @Albertadoctors @picardonhealth @cspotweet @CMA_Docs

#abhealth #ableg #acutecarecrisis #ercrisis

This campaign needs you now Edmonton ER Doctor Open Letter

Edmonton ER doctors stand with our colleagues in Calgary. Please join us in signing this open letter outlining our concerns with the current state of healthcare in Alberta.

#alberta #ABHealth #healthcare #ercrisis #AbElection2023

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