We are having the wrong conversations in healthcare.

We shouldn’t be asking how we can increase hospital capacity. Instead we should be asking how to prevent people from needing the hospital to begin with.

What happened to prioritizing primary care and preventative health?

You can't vote the Earth flat.

But you can vote for flat-Earth policies.

Dark Age 2.0.

Cognitive psychology teaches us that we all have biases. That's why "high-quality research is needed to support health claims. As physicist Richard Feynman famously made clear, 'The first principle is that you must not fool yourself'” @jonathanstea.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/writ...

In an era of rising #pseudoscience masquerading as trustworthy #evidence, the lack of #ethics oversight on privately funded studies in #Canada needs urgent correction.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The AI transcription tool Whisper hallucinates in a large fraction of its transcripts.

It's been used for 7 million medical transcripts. People want to use similar text to transcribe bodycam audio for police reports.

Both are among the WORST applications of the tech.

apnews.com/article/ai-a...

Here's a starter pack of all the Canadian journalists I'm currently following on BlueSky.

I'm sure I've missed many. Let me know of any others and I'll add them! 📰🤓

go.bsky.app/KF3HUUX

Never let them tell you it’s not possible: Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson achieved the 'impossible' during their final year of high school in 2023.

flip.it/DXYiXu

From Prof Mike Hoerger (of Tulane U) about the ONS data related to kids being infected with Covid

"ONS data show a doubling of #LongCOVID in kids from Mar 2023 to Mar 2024.

This is concerning..."
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18467...

Important 🧵on our new peer-reviewed paper:

The pandemic is as bad as it ever was for babies - in year to Aug 2023, 6,300 babies under 1 were admitted to hospital wholly or partly BECAUSE of Covid.

They are ONLY age group where admissions have NOT gone down over time 1/17

My first post has to be about #LongCOVID

🔹 400 million individuals affected worldwide
🔹 $1 trillion in annual economic costs
🔹 Countless lives & communities shattered

The time for a comprehensive policy and research response is now!

Details in our review here www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mycoplasma infections increase in the post COVID group. Either the non-COVID group lives in another planet or COVID does something to the immune system. 🤷🏻‍♂️

You may have seen the sobering #AI risks & timelines report for the US gov't this week:
📰https://cnn.com/2024/03/12/business/artificial-intelligence-ai-report-extinction
📄https://www.gladstone.ai/action-plan

This #Indigenous led innovation leverages local community knowledge, capacity & #healthtech to improve #integration of supports to help #seniors access & navigate #health care pathways.

This is what #HealthInAll can look like.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Our early family lives affects if we build bridges or polarize & divide the world:

Study finds #politicians with #avoidant attachment style are more likely to work across the aisle than those with #anxious early childhood attachment coping mechanisms.

www.psypost.org/anxiously-at...

Even if overt signals of #racism are removed by humans, these #AI LLMs show deep-seated bias triggered by #language-correlates of #race, arising out of the datasets they were trained on, raising questions about #safety & integrity of use in #health & #legal settings:
www.euronews.com/next/2024/03...

Though my goal is to try to say/do things to make the world better & more fair for everyone, I have blindspots I don't even know about yet. That's why reading what you say on here & asking questions helps so much in finding a road we can all walk together. Thanks for your patience as I keep learning