I got a firsthand look at how understaffed our hospitals and nursing homes are today. My boyfriend's mom is in rehab, post hip surgery. He and I went to buy some hair scrunchies and elastics for her. When we arrived to see her and give her stuff, she said she had the same hair elastic in her hair for the past 3 weeks. I don't know why someone didn't take it out when she was admitted or tried to wash her hair other than lack of staff. Her hair was so matted. My boyfriend and I spent about an hour combing her hair out with a detangler and detangling comb. We had cut some of her hair off, but thankfully not too much. I braided her hair in the hopes it wouldn't get so bad before her discharge date. The nurses don't need to comb her hair or cut it, but it's sad that they are so overworked that they can't even notice things like that.

#healthcarereform #healthcareworkers #healthcarecrisis

Sen. Bernie Sanders says millions of people can’t find a doctor. He’s mostly right.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/28/bernie-sanders/sen-bernie-sanders-says-millions-of-people-cant-fi/

#BernieSanders #HealthcareAccess #DoctorShortage #MillionsWithoutDoctors #MedicalCare #HealthcareCrisis #Politics #News

Texas abortion ban lawsuit reveals harrowing experiences
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2023/07/21/women-denied-abortions-despite-health-risks-testify-in-texas-case/

#Texas
#Abortion
#Healthcare
#HealthcareInPregnancy
#Pregnancy
#HealthcareCrisis
#Trauma
#99YearsInPrison
#AbortionBan

#NovaraMedia
#Tory Minister’s HOWLER On #QuestionTime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAkqKw4ElTY

#NHS #ToriesOut #ToryScum
#NoPrivatisation #NHSunderfunding
#healthcareisahumanright
#healthcarecrisis

Your truth sinks deep in our veins,
Your words a beacon of change,
The repeal of Roe a shame,
Kamala spoke loud and strange.
You declare the "health care crisis" here,
A press for change, loud and clear,
Your fight for justice a pioneer,
Your words ringing loud and sincere.

#kamalaharris #roevwade #healthcarecrisis #justice #ode #poetry

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/kamala-harris-says-roe-v-wade-reversal-created-health-care-crisis-rcna90829

She was denied an abortion in Texas - then she almost died

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65935189

#BBCNews #TexasAbortionBan #ReproductiveRights #HealthcareCrisis #MaternalMortality #Women'sRights #Politics #News

Also yet another being fobbed off by all the doctors and the only helpful person out there was the nurse who did my bloods. Caredoc sent me to ER, after 10 hours ER confirmed my toe is super infected and I've a respiratory infection both will need an antibiotic, they then advised me to go to my GP even after I advised them she's booked solid until July. #GPcrisis #HealthCareCrisis #GPshortage FF/fg have really fkd up the #hse we need #SlainteCare yesterday

Thanks to my colleagues in the emergency departments at @ottawahospital for heading out and doing over a 100 shifts at the Kemptville District Hospital and helping keep their ER open through the summer.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6862315

#HealthcareCrisis #canadianhealthcare

Health care crisis: the fault of (federal) funding or (provincial) management?
#Canada #CdnPoli #CanadianPolitics #Federalism #HealthCare #Health #Politics #HealthCareCrisis #FederalFunding #ProvincialManagement
https://the-14.com/health-care-crisis-the-fault-of-federal-funding-or-provincial-management/

Great article by The Conversation Canada: “Why is Canada snubbing internationally trained doctors during a health-care crisis?” https://theconversation.com/why-is-canada-snubbing-internationally-trained-doctors-during-a-health-care-crisis-198490
#Canada #Healthcare #HealthcareCrisis

Why is Canada snubbing internationally trained doctors during a health-care crisis?
#Canada #Health #Politics #Immigration #Doctors #HealthCare #Immigrants #Physicians #DoctorShortage #FamilyDoctors #HealthCareCrisis
https://the-14.com/why-is-canada-snubbing-internationally-trained-doctors-during-a-health-care-crisis/

He is also likely lose his job because of getting shot and hospitalized: “A victim of the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, California told Gov. Gavin Newsom that he wanted to leave the hospital as quickly as possible to avoid high medical costs.” 🤬

#GunViolenceCrisis #HealthcareCrisis #SinglePayerNow

https://www.commondreams.org/news/mass-shooting-victims-medical-bills

⁩For-profit services are NOT the answer to Ontario's health care crisis. Excellent article by ⁦⁦@David_Moscrop@twitter.com⁩ #onpoli #onthealth #HealthCareCrisis https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/25/ontario-health-care-crisis-for-profit-services/

@empiricism It's the "Conservative" way #cdnpoli #HealthcareCrisis

"The provinces have failed. Canada needs nationalized health care

Provincial governments are incrementally privatizing the systems they’ve broken. It’s time to consider something bold"

#cdnpoli #HealthcareCrisis #HealthCare

https://www.tvo.org/article/the-provinces-have-failed-canada-needs-nationalized-health-care

Today, @TheGuardian joins the dots on #socialcare, the #HealthCareCrisis & #unpaidcarers:

'The issue of unpaid carers is not separate from the wider social care crisis. It is partly the lack of care workers – whether privately or publicly funded – that forces people to care for relatives & sometimes friends, themselves'.

As recent data show, there are over 5M unpaid carers, over half of whom commit more than 20 hours a week... ignoring (& tacitly exploiting them) is hardly sustainable!

Private: Investor-owned facilities, profit-driven.
Public: Accessible to everyone, without regard to one's pocketbook. 
With a finite number of doctors and nurses and staff, every private, for-profit clinic draws resources away from a public model.
#HealthCareCrisis #onpoli

Takes a lot of chutzpah to undermine publicly funded care and then announce that private clinics owned or operated by your political donors and cronies are the solution to the #HealthCareCrisis. Privatization of healthcare in Canada is harmful to everyone. #onpoli #OntarioHealth

RT @AlisonGeorge10@twitter.com

@SteveBarclay@twitter.com & @AmandaPritchard@twitter.com urgently need to listen to experienced snr medics AND ask jnr drs WHY they’re leaving 🇬🇧 in their droves.

My eldest, an F3 dr, is leaving for a yr in Oz soon, to enjoy better working conditions & pay.

@BMA_JuniorDocs@twitter.com
#HealthCareCrisis #NHS

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AlisonGeorge10/status/1614950860332863488

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/11/canada-healthcare-crisis-emergency-room-death #healthcarecrisis