Medicine Canada
There isn't an immediate need for moderators, but I know how difficult it is to find moderators who have experience in the healthcare system. If you are a physician, nurse, or other healthcare professional, and you would like to be added as a moderator, please send me a message. --- ## Plan for Community Hi everyone, This community is now the official replacement for the r/MedicineCanada subreddit, which is now privated. Thank you to the moderator who reached out! The community on Reddit was still being developed and it was quite small. I expect that to be similar in the early stages on Lemmy as well. While I have thoughts on how this community should be run, I'm also open to changing things up depending on how the community grows. For now, I'm in agreement with how the other subreddit was being developed. If you would like to read the vision of the subreddit, you can find it here: --- > I want to help make this Subreddit into a Canadian equivalent for r/Medicine. While there is a lot of overlap, and a lot of Canadian physicians and medical professionals likely use the larger subreddit, it seems useful to have a space to focus discussions on the Canadian medical system. > > In recent years, and especially in recent months, there's a clear need for a place where medical professionals in Canada can discuss relevant issues. Given that this can become a divisive topic where there are also often other stakeholders (political, financial, or otherwise) that may want to guide discussion and push certain views, I'm hoping to slowly develop the Subreddit and follow the model of r/Medicine. I hope that by doing so, the actual medical professionals will feel comfortable using this Subreddit for their discussions. I'm not affiliated with the moderators in r/Medicine, although I plan on reaching out to them for tips and supports while I set things up. As this would be a smaller community, even when full of users, I am also planning on communicating with and/or requesting a few other similar Subreddits, so I can redirect traffic accordingly.
globalnews.ca
cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/33672
www.theglobeandmail.com
> A British Columbia provincial policy that forced people with chronic illnesses such as Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis to switch to cheaper medications saved the province more than $730-million over five years, according to a new government report. > > The B.C. government said Friday that the money freed up through its biosimilar switching plan allowed the province to expand public coverage of other drugs and devices, including Trikafta, a life-changing treatment for cystic fibrosis and continuous glucose monitors for people with diabetes.
www.newscientist.com
Don’t panic! Disease X doesn’t exist yet – but it might one day. Disease X is the label that the World Health Organization uses to refer to some currently unknown infectious condition that is capable of causing an epidemic or – if it spreads across multiple countries – a pandemic. The term, coined in 2017, can be used to mean a newly discovered pathogen or any known pathogen with newly acquired pandemic potential. By the latter definition, covid-19 was the first Disease X. But there could be another in the future.
An analysis on primary care in Canada, and what we can do to improve it > KEY POINTS > > * Canada spends less of its total health budget on primary care than the average among Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries (5.3% v. 8.1%). > > * Canada can learn lessons to inform policy on primary care from OECD countries like the United Kingdom, Norway, Netherlands and Finland where more than 95% of the population has a regular primary care clinician or place of care. > > * An analysis of these countries shows that those with high rates of primary care attachment have stronger contractual agreements and accountability for family physicians, including where they practise, their scope of practice and who they accept as patients. > > * Countries with high rates of primary care attachment have similar numbers of family physicians, but fewer work in walk-in clinics or specialized areas; family physicians are paid by capitation or salary, work in interprofessional teams and have excellent digital tools and information systems. The article has more, I just pulled the key points section out
> Background: Globally, pharmaceutical companies offer patient support programs in tandem with their products, which aim to enhance medication adherence and patient experience through education, training, support and financial assistance. We sought to identify the proportion and characteristics of such patient support programs in Canada and to describe the nature of supports provided.
I pulled out the infographics for a short TLDR  
Medicine Canada
!medicine@lemmy.caA community for Canadian physicians and medical professionals
🍁 While this community is intended for Canadian discussions, you are free to post about other medical systems. We're all in this together :)
Related Communities
- Medical Community Hub
- Medicine
- Medicine Canada (📍)
- Premed
- Premed Canada
- Public Health
For better links and descriptions, see the pinned post in the Medical Community Hub (!medicine@lemmy.world)
Rules
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No requests for professional advice or general medical information. Please do not solicit medical advice or share personal health anecdotes about yourself or others.
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No promotions, advertisements, surveys, or petitions.
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Link to high-quality, original research whenever possible: Posts which rely on or reference scientific data (e.g. an announcement about a medical breakthrough) should link to the original research in peer-reviewed medical journals or respectable news sources as judged by the moderators. Sensationalized titles, misrepresentation of results, or promotion of blatantly bad science may lead to removal.
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Act professionally and decently: /r/medicine is a public forum that represents the medical community and comments should reflect this. Please keep disagreement civil and focused on issues.
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Protect patient confidentiality. Please anonymize cases and remove any patient-identifiable information.
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No memes or low-effort posts: Memes, image links (including social media screenshots), images of text, or other low-effort posts or comments are not allowed.
These rules have been modelled after /r/medicine. While some rules were modified or skipped as this is a much smaller community, we can revisit the rules as we go. Thank you :)