Zoë Sahay
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🇨🇦 Assoc. Prof Emergency Medicine (Dr. Oliver) Tomato enthusiast 🍅 Winnipeg doctor-writer ✍🏼 doctorsdesk.ca
With all the talk about COVID being ‘not that bad’, I thought it would be timely to resurface this article I wrote regarding a terrible choice I had to make in the middle of the pandemic. Trigger warning: death and despair www.annemergmed.com/article/S019... #MedSky
One Big Cry
Driving home from the ER, I often pull over on a side street to have a big cry. This tactic offsets my career-related mental instability and prevents me from raging at my husband because he can’t find...
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The word burnout as it relates to emergency physicians is wrong. We aren’t burnt out - we’ve been standing in a system on fire for far too long. #MedSky www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
1 in 10 emergency doctors are leaving Canadian ERs, a new survey shows. What's behind this 'alarming exodus'? | CBC News
One out of every 10 emergency physicians in Canada have left their specialty, while the vast majority of others are reducing their hours or taking time off to manage burnout. The findings, part of a s...
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Winnipeg! @colsonwhitehead.com is visiting our one-of-a-kind city for the first time on Tuesday. Let’s show up and support these types of events in our Canadian cultural hot-spot! Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/an-evening...
An Evening with Colson Whitehead
A special evening with #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner COLSON WHITEHEAD in celebration of COOL MACHINE.
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I bet no one was ticketed for being distracted by a man in a ghillie suit standing on the sidewalk.
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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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If you’re watching Fauci’s testimony remember that science isn’t an ideology. It doesn’t lie. It evolves. COVID-19 was a once-in-a-century pandemic caused by a brand-new virus, recommendations changed because the evidence changed. That’s not deception. That’s how it works.
Grand opening announcement! Other Places Books will open on August 4! (Hopefully)
Other Places Books grand opening!
It's finally happening! (probably)
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What if instead of being asked not to use AC on a 100-degree day, you were suddenly unable to create an image of yourself riding a log flume with a photorealistic Crash Bandicoot.
*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.
Somehow this book made me want to go and live in a mangrove swamp.
These also taste faintly of banana and for some reason I’m not mad at it.
Reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy Shocked at the number of times he uses the words ‘black’ and ‘ash’ and still pulls it off.✔️ #booksky
Writing: Stories shape the way we feel and see the world around us, and how we respond and interact with it. Find and write the stories that shape you, the ones you enjoy reading and writing. - Wrtr #AmWriting #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky #AuthorSky
AI now seems integrated into literally every app, every piece of software. And I really hope most people feel the same way I do - uninterested in having a data centre live my life for me.
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ALT: Ai Ai Ai Danada Cat MTV
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Phew! Seriously though, AI can retrieve obscure facts from the ether and crunch numbers quickly, but it will never have the emotional discernment of a human, which is essential in assessing a patient’s concerns. Particularly in a crisis. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... #MedSky #AI
Canadians skeptical about using AI in health care, poll suggests | CBC News
A new poll on artificial intelligence and health care suggests that while some Canadians may be turning to chatbots for medical advice, they're far less comfortable with the technology being used to m...
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As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Dune (1965) Frank Herbert
The special at the hotel restaurant attached to the hospital where I work. The hotel is full of people with severe medical issues, with high rates of diabetes and kidney failure. Could we maybe forgo the ripple chips in favour of - I dunno - something that is actually food? 🍅 #MedSky
