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Sandra Woods, Montréal 🍁
@sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social
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Bioethicist become patient; 2 rare diseases & chronic pain (CRPS + FMD).
Artist, Air Force reserve Veteran, Patient Partner & Co-author in pain research, outdoor sports enthusiast.
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Sandra Woods, Montréal 🍁 @sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social · Mar 26
Patient safety: "Above all, the patient must be placed at the centre of the conversation".
From 2016 in @thelancet.bsky.social & still just as true...
Although it's almost 10 years later & we're not there yet 🎯
#Bioethics #medicine #healthcare
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Patient safety is not a luxury
The fundamental tenet of medicine, first do no harm, seems obvious for the provision of high quality health care. Yet in the UK alone, on average, one incident of patient harm is reported every 35 sec...
www.thelancet.com
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Register for free at canadianpainsociety.ca
November 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Happy Thanksgiving - from Montréal 🍁 - to all my friends in the US today! 🦃
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social
Are you a Canadian living with #chronicpain ?💥
Pull out your fave musical instrument, paints, poetry pencil, shoes for interpretive dance... Whichever creative art interests you, you can submit an original piece to the @canadianpain.bsky.social Art Awards! ✨️
The theme for 2026: "How we feel pain"
canadianpain.bsky.social The Canadian Pain Society | La Société canadienne de la douleur @canadianpain.bsky.social · 5d
🎨 The Canadian Pain Society Art Awards
📅 Submit by February 15th, 2026
➡️ canadianpainsociety.ca/artawards

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🎨 Le concours d'art de la Société canadienne de la douleur
📅 Envoyez votre oeuvre jusqu'au 15 février 2026
➡️ canadianpainsociety.ca/fr/artawards
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social
Age-based screening for lung cancer?
Low-dose CT scan = Approx 10 min, minimal radiation exposure for patients
"Screen everyone ages 40 to 85, regardless of smoking history, & you detect 94% of cancers & prevent more than 26,000 deaths"
@statnews.com
#bioethics
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/l...
The hidden reason lung cancer screening is not working
The lung cancer screening system “is not a risk assessment. It is a judgment system designed as one,” writes the director of a cancer prevention institute.
www.statnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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captmarkkelly.bsky.social
I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.

If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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atrupar.com
Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social
Celebrating #WorldWatercolorDay with a look back at some 2025 media coverage! 📰 📺
This journalist reached out for my #ArtDespitePain initiative; to raise awareness of #chronicpain & encourage others living with pain to try creative pursuits to improve symptoms ✨️
montrealguardian.com/montreal-art...
November 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social
Solved the STAT Mini Crossword in ⏱️ 1 minute and 12 seconds. Can you beat my time?
A fun & quick puzzle, over AM coffee, from @statnews ☕️ www.statnews.com/stat-mini-cr... #STATMini
STAT Mini Crossword
STAT MINI As a part of STAT's 10-year anniversary, we’ve launched a limited-edition crossword — the STAT Mini! With a new puzzle posted every Monday, join
www.statnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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mtlgazette.bsky.social
Quebec to test emergency alert system Wednesday at 1:55 p.m. montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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picardonhealth.bsky.social
Peanut allergies are plummeting in children, and you can thank science. Early exposure has turned out to be one of the best prevention methods, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: Peanut allergies are plummeting in children, and you can thank science
Early exposure has turned out to be one of the best prevention methods for allergies in kids
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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DYK? WIASC founder & Disabled artist @sandrawoods_creative_arts is also a Veteran 🍁
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Le saviez-vous ? La fondatrice du CAAOI et artiste handicapée Sandra Woods est également Vétérane 🍁
A woman in military fatigues, wearing a beret with a Royal Canadian Air Force officer's insignia, letting a small garter snake move across her outstretched hands as she smiles and watches it move.
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social
Remembrance Day 🍁
. My dad, HMCS Restigouche, Royal Canadian Navy
. His aunt, WWII Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWACs) Pipe Band, shown in Germany
. My uncle, WWII, Northumberland Fusiliers, many battles
. Me as a Reserve officer, years ago, giving back ✨️
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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davidgrebstad.bsky.social
Honoured to attend today’s NDHQ ceremony: LGen Mike Wright announced Indigenous beaded poppies are now approved for wear by all CAF members. Grateful to buy a handmade poppy from my colleague LCol Catherine Askew (Moose Cree First Nation), a CAF chaplain.
October 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social
In US, proposed changes to Medicare coverage could end access to anesthetic blocks, or “peripheral nerve block” procedures for #ChronicPain 💥
#bioethics #healthcare
www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/m...
www.statnews.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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caaoi-wiasc.bsky.social
Wishing you a Happy Halloween! 🎃
Vous souhaitant une bonne Halloween! 🎃
A joke photo of a skeleton painting a portrait of another skeleton
October 31, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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"better-than-expected sales growth in its third quarter, driven by strong customer demand at the Canadian coffee chain and its international franchises" 🇨🇦
October 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Masking at health-care facilities mandatory starting Monday, says NLHS #Newfoundland #Labrador

Health authority says it's an attempt to curb spread of respiratory illnesses

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Masking at health-care facilities mandatory starting Monday, says NLHS | CBC News
Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services is bringing back a masking requirement in clinical areas in hospitals and health-care facilities in a bid to cut down on the spread of respiratory infections.
www.cbc.ca
October 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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astrokatie.com
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social
Happy that this "haunted house" painting of a nearby historic home has found a new home in time for #Halloween!
~ Watercolour on cotton-paper
A painting of the front and side of an old stone house from the 1800s, with 6 gables on the front and 3 on the side. There are ominous grey clouds in the sky, echoed by the curving grey driveway leading to the home on a slight rise.
October 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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caaoi-wiasc.bsky.social
The WIASC was mentioned in a European art magazine - The Art of Watercolour, published in France!
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Un mention du CAAOI dans une revue d'art européene - The Art of Watercolour, publiée en France !
October 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social
Have chronic low back (lumbar) pain? 😖
In Montréal? 🍁
Want to exercise, hopefully without making your back pain worse? 💥
The Mtl Gen Hospital & McGill Uni are researching a 12-week online exercise program 🎯
I'm not involved in this research, but think it's a great idea!
A poster with the logo of the McGill University Health Centre at the top, with a photo at the bottom of a middle-aged man sitting on a yoga mat, looking at a laptop computer while stretching. There's a detailed description of the Research Project, available on Redcap (a research platform) through this link: https://redcap.link/ai8g92pb
October 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social
My watercolour painting isn't finished yet, but hopefully it's good luck for the @torontobluejays.bsky.social - from Montréal 🍁
A watercolour painting of a beautiful blue jay, perched on a branch
October 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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painresforum.bsky.social
How does chronic pain impact an artist’s style and craft? Check out this conversation between @napainschool.bsky.social Patient Partner @sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social and Science Communicator @shirinshs.bsky.social discussing the creation of #ArtDespitePain bit.ly/4onsZMW #PRF #NAPS2025
October 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social
In US #healthcare, "the real culprits are huge profits for health care investors, a gigantic bureaucracy deployed to extract those profits, and health services skewed to what’s profitable rather than what’s needed...
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#bioethics
www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/h...
The U.S. experiment with profit-driven health care has failed
“The market competition, managed care, and ‘corporate efficiency’ that economists prescribed as the cure for health care inflation instead accelerated it.”
www.statnews.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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"Currently there's only one cannabis-derived medication with FDA approval... and it doesn't contain any THC"
But experts "say THC seems to be one of the "primary" compounds responsible for cutting down pain and improving sleep"
#chronicpain #bioethics
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www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Cannabis blunts back pain in 2 new studies
Millions of Americans use weed to treat chronic pain, but there's little high quality research on whether it works. New findings suggest it can be effective for low back pain, on par with opioids.
www.npr.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM