Kasia Smith, MD
PGY2 in Family Medicine, future ER Doctor 🇨🇦
Polish-Canadian, former CPA turned physician. Evidenced based everything.
- This past month was so hard. But it’s amazing how restarting my exercise habit can positively impact my outlook.
- With this trade war, we need to be prepared for some sacrifice. Cancel or not book vacations in the US, give up brands made in US, cancel US services. Lean in to discomfort, mourn the loss, and support 🇨🇦 and allies. If you don’t, we WILL judge you and WILL be disappointed. #tradewar #teamcanada
- I’m participating in the economic blackout today, but the Canadian edition. Will only buy non-US made things from non-US stores if anything.
- I am slowly replacing as many of my US made products as possible. As I’m also trying to support smaller businesses in the process one thing I’m learning is that I need to be patient waiting for the deliveries to arrive. But so far, it’s been totally worth it! #tradewar #supportcanadian #teamcanada
- Yikes
- @picardonhealth.bsky.social asks if Canada might be sleepwalking towards an H5N1 pandemic. We just might be. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
- Welp - Covid hits my family with my 8 yo daughter testing positive today. Had odd symptoms, starting with ear infection, sore throat with white exudate (but also cough), fatigue and bilateral conjunctivitis. Had her family doctor swab her because of the large differential. #covid19
- Just had two friends test positive for Covid here in St John’s NL. First confirmed cases this fall that I’ve heard of. What are Covid infections looking like where you are? I’ve mostly been slammed with patients with M. pneumo. #covid
- Will definitely be using this info to encourage my patients to get their Covid shots!
- Wondering why so many people have mycoplasma (aka walking pneumonia) lately? Here’s a clue. Just published: after propensity matching, those w/ prior #COVID19 infection were about 3x more likely to get mycoplasma than those without #COVID: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #MedTwitter #MedSky
- One thing that gives me hope for the US is the situation in Poland. After years of far right leadership, things finally swung back to the center with the KO winning back control. Soon there will be a presidential election with @rafal-trzaskowski.bsky.social running as the candidate.
- I recently deleted my Threads app because I found I was getting sucked into too many “raging baiting” posts that are clearly meant to drive engagement but without any genuine intentions to drive discourse. I really hope it doesn’t hope that doesn’t happen here!
