Sarah Newbery
@snewbery1.bsky.social
Rural generalist physician | optimistic and hopeful | keen to explore rural health equity, health systems and community
“The evidence from around the world is clear: where a parallel private health system operates, both health outcomes and access to care are worse. Canadians were also clear in their resounding support where every Canadian has access to a publicly funded health care system.”
Doctors across Canada are deeply concerned that the #Alberta government’s proposed private care plan will leave more Albertans waiting even longer to access health care. The CMA is calling on the government to reconsider this proposal, and focus on known solutions to support public health care.
Alberta’s private health proposal will leave more Albertans waiting longer for care: CMA
Doctors across Canada are deeply concerned that the Alberta government’s proposed private care plan will leave more Albertans waiting even longer to access health care.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
“The evidence from around the world is clear: where a parallel private health system operates, both health outcomes and access to care are worse. Canadians were also clear in their resounding support where every Canadian has access to a publicly funded health care system.”
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Residents of any Canadian postgrad training program: the Nor-Star program covers your travel and accommodation costs to complete electives in Northern Ontario
Check out the opportunities on the NOSM U Medical Electives website here: www.nosm.ca/education/me...
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Check out the opportunities on the NOSM U Medical Electives website here: www.nosm.ca/education/me...
@snewbery1.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Residents of any Canadian postgrad training program: the Nor-Star program covers your travel and accommodation costs to complete electives in Northern Ontario
Check out the opportunities on the NOSM U Medical Electives website here: www.nosm.ca/education/me...
@snewbery1.bsky.social
Check out the opportunities on the NOSM U Medical Electives website here: www.nosm.ca/education/me...
@snewbery1.bsky.social
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The impact that an anti-vax, anti-science provincial government can have on the entire country.
Alberta's role in Canada's loss of measles elimination status embarrassing, former chief medical officer says | CBC News
The latest federal data shows Alberta accounts for 38 per cent of Canada’s cases.
www.cbc.ca
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The impact that an anti-vax, anti-science provincial government can have on the entire country.
Share your tail story this rural health week!
It’s National Rural Health Week 2025!
SRPC President Dr. Gavin Parker celebrates the dedication and heart of rural healthcare professionals across Canada. 💙
Thanks to @rccbc.bsky.social and RhPAP for leading this campaign with us!
#RuralHealthWeek #ILoveRural
SRPC President Dr. Gavin Parker celebrates the dedication and heart of rural healthcare professionals across Canada. 💙
Thanks to @rccbc.bsky.social and RhPAP for leading this campaign with us!
#RuralHealthWeek #ILoveRural
October 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Share your tail story this rural health week!
Reposted by Sarah Newbery
Rural health professionals are more than providers, they’re neighbors, mentors, lifelines. Watch their stories & share yours! #RuralHealthWeek @rccbc.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Rural health professionals are more than providers, they’re neighbors, mentors, lifelines. Watch their stories & share yours! #RuralHealthWeek @rccbc.bsky.social
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SRPC supports the CMA’s new policy on integrated health workforce planning and calls for urgent action on rural health.
Read Our Response: srpc.ca/srpc-welcome...
@cmadocs.bsky.social
Read Our Response: srpc.ca/srpc-welcome...
@cmadocs.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
SRPC supports the CMA’s new policy on integrated health workforce planning and calls for urgent action on rural health.
Read Our Response: srpc.ca/srpc-welcome...
@cmadocs.bsky.social
Read Our Response: srpc.ca/srpc-welcome...
@cmadocs.bsky.social
This is really well done! Way to go @healthcareforreal.bsky.social!
What’s the Canadian take on #Tylenol and #pregnancy? Don’t stress. Heath Canada’s approval process for meds keeps us safe. There’s no credible evidence linking prenatal #acetaminophen use to #autism.
Still feeling uneasy? Best to talk to your #doctor or head to a walk-in clinic.
Still feeling uneasy? Best to talk to your #doctor or head to a walk-in clinic.
September 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is really well done! Way to go @healthcareforreal.bsky.social!
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September 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Health professionals across Canada are calling on the federal government to act on the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss because our health depends on it.
Add your name to the open letter: planetaryhealthday.ca
Add your name to the open letter: planetaryhealthday.ca
National Day of Action on Planetary Health
planetaryhealthday.ca
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Health professionals across Canada are calling on the federal government to act on the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss because our health depends on it.
Add your name to the open letter: planetaryhealthday.ca
Add your name to the open letter: planetaryhealthday.ca
Rural health systems matter. And there is a lot we need to do to improve them including creating a national rural health workforce strategy to help enable rural health workforce stability and ER predictability.
I’m glad to have worked w stellar teammates on this response.
I’m glad to have worked w stellar teammates on this response.
srpc.ca/rural-ers-ar... “Rural ERs Are Not “Glorified Walk-in Clinics”: SRPC Responds to Globe and Mail Column
While we generally respect Mr. Picard’s contributions to health journalism, this particular article struck a deeply concerning chord with many in the rural medical community.”
#RuralHealth
While we generally respect Mr. Picard’s contributions to health journalism, this particular article struck a deeply concerning chord with many in the rural medical community.”
#RuralHealth
Rural ERs Are Not “Glorified Walk-in Clinics”: SRPC Responds to Globe and Mail Column - SRPC
Rural ERs Are Not “Glorified Walk-in Clinics”: SRPC Responds to Globe and Mail Column On July 8, 2025, Globe and Mail health columnist André Picard published a piece titled “Should Every Small-Town Ho...
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July 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Rural health systems matter. And there is a lot we need to do to improve them including creating a national rural health workforce strategy to help enable rural health workforce stability and ER predictability.
I’m glad to have worked w stellar teammates on this response.
I’m glad to have worked w stellar teammates on this response.
Reposted by Sarah Newbery
Doctors see patients in their offices who are vulnerable, and who have experienced challenges. Introducing an “ideological influence” does not help them.
Read more from CMA President Dr. @jossreimer.bsky.social in the @theglobeandmail.com.
Read more from CMA President Dr. @jossreimer.bsky.social in the @theglobeandmail.com.
Canadian Medical Association to file legal challenge over Alberta law limiting access to treatment for transgender youth
Bill 26, enacted in December, prohibits doctors from prescribing puberty blockers, hormone therapies to those under 16
www.theglobeandmail.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Doctors see patients in their offices who are vulnerable, and who have experienced challenges. Introducing an “ideological influence” does not help them.
Read more from CMA President Dr. @jossreimer.bsky.social in the @theglobeandmail.com.
Read more from CMA President Dr. @jossreimer.bsky.social in the @theglobeandmail.com.
Canadian docs coming home… what a gift to Canada… so sad for the US.
So pleased that
@drjengunter.bsky.social is moving back to 🇨🇦
Welcome home!
(And, so sad that her move is on the heels of terrible changes to reproductive/women’s health/access in America.)
“Land of the flee”
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
@drjengunter.bsky.social is moving back to 🇨🇦
Welcome home!
(And, so sad that her move is on the heels of terrible changes to reproductive/women’s health/access in America.)
“Land of the flee”
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Winnipeg-born OB/GYN Jen Gunter moving back to Canada after ‘rank misogyny’ drives devolution of women’s rights
In 1995, Dr. Jen Gunter arrived in Kansas. The Winnipeg-born-and-raised gynecologist was fresh out of her OB/GYN training at the University of Western Ontario, having completed medical school at the U...
www.winnipegfreepress.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Canadian docs coming home… what a gift to Canada… so sad for the US.
Reposted by Sarah Newbery
What’s next for health care in Canada? At #CMAHealthSummit 2025, experts tackled policy shifts, AI, advancing Indigenous self-determination and cross-border impacts in the era of Trump. With an election already in motion, these discussions were more important than ever.
Catch the highlights here 👇
Catch the highlights here 👇
Health Summit 2025: The Politics of Change
Just days into a federal election campaign, hundreds of physicians, medical learners, policy-makers and people with lived experience gathered in Ottawa and online to talk about Canada’s evolving polit...
www.cma.ca
April 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
What’s next for health care in Canada? At #CMAHealthSummit 2025, experts tackled policy shifts, AI, advancing Indigenous self-determination and cross-border impacts in the era of Trump. With an election already in motion, these discussions were more important than ever.
Catch the highlights here 👇
Catch the highlights here 👇
Reposted by Sarah Newbery
I hope administrators, politicians & the media will watch this video to finally put an end to the Zombie Idea that non-urgent patients are responsible for ED crowding and addressing these patients needs will fix the crowding problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4hZ...
Full Episode | Zombie Ideas in the Emergency Department | S05-E09
YouTube video by Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health
www.youtube.com
April 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I hope administrators, politicians & the media will watch this video to finally put an end to the Zombie Idea that non-urgent patients are responsible for ED crowding and addressing these patients needs will fix the crowding problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4hZ...
Rural communities matter.
Rural docs and teams have come through the pandemic with new challenges, but also seeing new opportunities as championed by SRPC.
We are in this together... let's champion change for rural clinicians, teams and communities!
championingchange.srpc.ca
Rural docs and teams have come through the pandemic with new challenges, but also seeing new opportunities as championed by SRPC.
We are in this together... let's champion change for rural clinicians, teams and communities!
championingchange.srpc.ca
March 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Rural communities matter.
Rural docs and teams have come through the pandemic with new challenges, but also seeing new opportunities as championed by SRPC.
We are in this together... let's champion change for rural clinicians, teams and communities!
championingchange.srpc.ca
Rural docs and teams have come through the pandemic with new challenges, but also seeing new opportunities as championed by SRPC.
We are in this together... let's champion change for rural clinicians, teams and communities!
championingchange.srpc.ca
Reposted by Sarah Newbery
It’s hard to keep up with U.S. President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff threats. But one thing is certain: the health and wellness of Canadians will suffer as a result of any trade dispute, and this stark reality has raised alarms with physicians across the country.
Read more 🔻
Read more 🔻
Eight in 10 doctors concerned about impact of tariffs on patients
It’s hard to keep up with U.S. President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff threats. But according to a recent survey of physicians by the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), what is clear is t...
www.cma.ca
March 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It’s hard to keep up with U.S. President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff threats. But one thing is certain: the health and wellness of Canadians will suffer as a result of any trade dispute, and this stark reality has raised alarms with physicians across the country.
Read more 🔻
Read more 🔻
Reposted by Sarah Newbery
Congratulations to our newly matched residents!
To all those of you who matched to NOSM U programs, we look forward to welcoming you to N. Ontario!
To all our NOSM U students who have matched elsewhere, we look forward to welcoming you back when your training is done!
To all those of you who matched to NOSM U programs, we look forward to welcoming you to N. Ontario!
To all our NOSM U students who have matched elsewhere, we look forward to welcoming you back when your training is done!
March 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Congratulations to our newly matched residents!
To all those of you who matched to NOSM U programs, we look forward to welcoming you to N. Ontario!
To all our NOSM U students who have matched elsewhere, we look forward to welcoming you back when your training is done!
To all those of you who matched to NOSM U programs, we look forward to welcoming you to N. Ontario!
To all our NOSM U students who have matched elsewhere, we look forward to welcoming you back when your training is done!
Such good work being done to support clinicians through advocacy and education re misinformation and many other things. Thanks @cmadocs.bsky.social for being in some positive SoMe spaces.
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March 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Such good work being done to support clinicians through advocacy and education re misinformation and many other things. Thanks @cmadocs.bsky.social for being in some positive SoMe spaces.
So grateful for women colleagues near and far in Canada … for their care, their friendship, their leadership, their courage. Thank you for all you do.
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March 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM
So grateful for women colleagues near and far in Canada … for their care, their friendship, their leadership, their courage. Thank you for all you do.
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Cod liver oil? Vitamin A?
How about a strong & clear message on value of vaccines?
Instead of vaccines, RFK Jr. focuses on unconventional measles treatments, driving worries about misinformation www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/h...
How about a strong & clear message on value of vaccines?
Instead of vaccines, RFK Jr. focuses on unconventional measles treatments, driving worries about misinformation www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/h...
Instead of vaccines, RFK Jr. focuses on unconventional measles treatments, driving worries about misinformation | CNN
As a measles outbreak in West Texas continues to grow, the response from US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has leaned heavily on treatment with vitamin A, as well as “good r...
www.cnn.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Wonderful to see this! Pharmacare investments have the potential to change lives and decrease costs in other sectors! Let’s see more of this important work!
@cmadocs.bsky.social
@cmadocs.bsky.social
The CMA is pleased to see the government's first signed pharmacare agreement with Manitoba.
This is a positive start, but there's still work to be done. Every Canadian deserves access to the medications they need – regardless of their ability to pay. Let's maintain this momentum 👏
This is a positive start, but there's still work to be done. Every Canadian deserves access to the medications they need – regardless of their ability to pay. Let's maintain this momentum 👏
Government of Canada signs pharmacare agreement with Manitoba to improve affordable access to medications
Today, the Honourable Mark Holland, Canada’s Minister of Health, announced a $267 million federal investment as part of two bilateral agreements to improve access to affordable medications for Manitob...
www.canada.ca
February 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Wonderful to see this! Pharmacare investments have the potential to change lives and decrease costs in other sectors! Let’s see more of this important work!
@cmadocs.bsky.social
@cmadocs.bsky.social
There are myriad opportunities to work in Ontario. Like BC, we should be marketing hard to skilled doctors who need a new place to practice.
@ontariosdoctors.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@ontariosdoctors.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
B.C. trying to recruit U.S. doctors amid Trump health-care uncertainties | CBC News
The B.C. government's throne speech last week indicated that the province would be targeting U.S. health-care professionals in a bid to shore up the provincial system — at a time when a Canada-based p...
www.cbc.ca
February 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
There are myriad opportunities to work in Ontario. Like BC, we should be marketing hard to skilled doctors who need a new place to practice.
@ontariosdoctors.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@ontariosdoctors.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Brilliant and beautiful!
I think the Army Choir had a message for the Trumpists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIQh...
Les Misérables Epilogue Scene Performed at the White House Governors Ball by the US Army Chorus
YouTube video by The DailyFAFO
www.youtube.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Brilliant and beautiful!
Reposted by Sarah Newbery
Reposted by Sarah Newbery
Yep. Health care is an investment not a cost and #northerners need cardiac and obstetric care #closetohome #onpoli #onhealth
Thanks @tvotoday.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about health care in Ontario today.
It’s a key election issue and it should be.
It’s a key election issue and it should be.
With guests @dominiknowakmd.bsky.social (@ontariosdoctors.bsky.social), Jobin Varughese ( @ocfp.bsky.social), and @snewbery1.bsky.social (Northern Ontario School of Medicine)
February 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Yep. Health care is an investment not a cost and #northerners need cardiac and obstetric care #closetohome #onpoli #onhealth