5 Ways to Improve Gynecologic Care and Women's Health Outcomes in Canada: 1) Formally recognize gynecology as a core surgical specialty 2) Resize clinical equipment & space for female docs 3) Close the gender pay gap in surgery 4) Engage with family docs 5) Increase public awareness & advocacy

5 ways to improve gynecologic care and women’s health outcomes in Canada

Canada can significantly improve women’s health, in both the short- and long-term, by focusing on five attainable and affordable immediate actions.

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Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

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Hitting all the beats of an alt-health grifter: - "health consultant" - "performance optimization" - *former* physician - carnivore diet - "reverse chronic disease" - legal problems - financial scams

Build Up Dietitians@builduprdns.bsky.social · 5h ago

And O'Mara is not a dietitian (it's not 'dietician') which probably explains his crackpottery.

Perez Hilton deserves the peace, kindness, and understanding that he never gave to Brittany Spears. I hope he recovers and I hope our sick, celebrity-obsessed culture does too.

Some of my work was quoted in this 404 Media piece about young money-hungry men selling supplements that are now being recalled by the FDA.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is an insane story about how a bunch of 20-somethings made a ton of AI slop to push supplements for a company that had an FDA recall. Turns out it's not really a supplement company at all; the same bros making the slop own the company. It's a fiction www.404media.co/inside-an-ai...

The innocent Bristol Stool Scale did nothing to deserve being dragged into this nightmare. Also you shouldn't be this proud of pooping. Let's not normalize telling tall tales about pooping.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 20h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Periodic reminder that approximately 2/3 of the equity in Postmedia is owned by the American hedge fund Chatham Asset Management.

Mark Kersten@markkersten.bsky.social · 24h ago

It may not be surprising, but it's nevertheless sad to see a Canadian newspaper trumpet Washington's call to demolish the #ICC, and siding with impunity for Putin, Netanyahu, and the Taliban. This is now part of the right's firmament, along with anti-trans politics and Residential School denialism.

It is exactly this sort of pandering to a constituency of people who truly struggle to tell the difference that got Strauss a seat in Parliament. Strauss is a shameless opportunist who doesn't seem to care that his rhetoric and misinformation harmed people. Toxic ambition of the worst kind.

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

The fragility on display here is off the charts. Doctors at Toronto’s Mt. Sinai Hospital complained that their pain wasn’t recognized in their colleague Kavita Algu’s advocacy against the genocide. Algu was ultimately forced to resign. archive.is/yTcX0

“I could no longer bring myself to give my labour to a workplace where people were targeted for speaking out against a genocide, including the bombing of hospitals and the murder and abduction of our Palestinian colleagues” Love you, Dr. Kavita Algu. ❤️

Conservative MP Matt Strauss should be familiar enough with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms not to confuse it with American legislation. This is embarrassing.

I will never forgive the physicians who were not on the front lines or actually treating COVID patients trying to minimize the reality of what we were experiencing on the ground and even still continuing to try to re-write history. The same usual suspects are at it again.

‼️ The "peptide" grift... Hidden cameras show doctors prescribing unauthorized peptides: www.cbc.ca/news/marketp... Me: "It's maddening." Doctors should be "warning their patients about these products, not providing them."

Doctors prescribing unauthorized peptides: CBC's Marketplace Cheat Sheet | CBC News

The CBC's Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need from the week.

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"The majority (97.1%) of adolescents continued to identify with a gender not typically aligned with their birth sex. Only 2.9% reverted to a gender identity aligned with their birth sex." Gender affirming care (even in the youth pop'n) has FAR LOWER rates of regret than other health treatments.

Stability of Transgender Identity in Adolescents Seen in Multidisciplinary Specialized Gender Centers: A Multicenter Study in Canada

To determine the proportions of adolescents continuing with their gender identity after referral to specialized gender clinics, the proportion continuing with gender-affirming hormones, and the propor...

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Lowry is tired of everyone's bullshit and is going to hang out here for a while until the world starts to make more sense.

ICYMI: I wrote an article for @healthydebate.bsky.social earlier this week about ivermectin, historical cancer scams, and the William Makis online grift economy.

Michelle Cohen@docmcohen.medsky.social · 6d ago

NEW: Cancer Pseudoscience and the Cultural Moment I wrote about how cancer quackery often capitalizes on its era of origin's social tensions. In our current moment, a Canadian former doctor and prolific COVID disinfo promotor is the reason ivermectin has become an ever-expanding online scam.

Hey anonymous internet people, I'd like to start taking an experimental hormone with vaguely defined benefits. I know I could self-experiment by ordering from a random website, but I'd rather pay an unethical grifter to spin lies to me first before I inject myself with a mystery substance. Any tips?

Emergency physician burnout and attrition in Canada: a longitudinal study “Emergency physician burnout remains high, with almost half of respondents having reduced their work hours, and 10% having left the profession”

Emergency physician burnout and attrition in Canada: a longitudinal study

Background:Canadian emergency staff have been dealing with record patient attendances, long wait times, bed blocking, and department overcrowding. We sought to report temporal trends in Canadian emerg...

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“Tobacco companies, almost entirely due to e-cigarettes and now pouches, have been able to increase nicotine sales for the first time in many decades." www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Young Canadians’ Nicotine Pouch Use Reaches New Heights

Are your patients Zyn-ing? Contraband nicotine patches are the latest wellness trend in Canada.

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Ivermectin is back, now for cancer! The Canadian public must be made aware about this disinformation and pseudoscience @docmcohen.medsky.social @healthydebate.bsky.social cc @picardonhealth.bsky.social healthydebate.ca/2026/07/topi...

Cancer pseudoscience and the cultural moment - Healthy Debate

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ICYMI: I wrote an article for @healthydebate.bsky.social earlier this week about ivermectin, historical cancer scams, and the William Makis online grift economy.

Michelle Cohen@docmcohen.medsky.social · 6d ago

NEW: Cancer Pseudoscience and the Cultural Moment I wrote about how cancer quackery often capitalizes on its era of origin's social tensions. In our current moment, a Canadian former doctor and prolific COVID disinfo promotor is the reason ivermectin has become an ever-expanding online scam.

How does science work again?

No guarantees in life except that I can make my 9 yr old laugh at any joke that involves the word "fart."

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

Trick question because the answer is to use a serrated tomato knife and then you can cut it however you want.

Snow Burrow@bostonjerry.bsky.social · 5d ago

Important question for the SL: When you're cutting a cherry tomato in half, do you slice along the equator or from the north to south pole? I do the equator, Mrs Jerry does north-south. We are a house divided.

Look at how the virus was praised and celebrated

Skeptical Raptor@skepticalraptor.bsky.social · 5d ago

Natural immunity from a disease is not better than vaccine immunity; in fact, #vaccine immunity IS natural immunity without all of the dangers of the vaccine-preventable disease.

Most boring mid-life crisis in the history of humanity

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · 7d ago

Even the rich immortality guy is giving up

NEW: Cancer Pseudoscience and the Cultural Moment I wrote about how cancer quackery often capitalizes on its era of origin's social tensions. In our current moment, a Canadian former doctor and prolific COVID disinfo promotor is the reason ivermectin has become an ever-expanding online scam.

Cancer pseudoscience and the cultural moment - Healthy Debate

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