General Internist, Clinician Educator
Toronto, Ontario
Joined February 2019
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David Frost retweeted
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Ethnic cleansing has been so normalized that @ctvnews casually adds a nod to ethnic cleansing in their headline as though it’s not a big deal
Israeli minister presents plan to remove Gaza population ctvnews.ca/world/mideast-con…
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I feel like there's a name for this...
Israeli minister presents plan to remove Gaza population ctvnews.ca/world/mideast-con…
Some who called for justice at the time this outrageous event happened were smeared, slandered, subjected to spurious professionalism complaints
The Israeli military acknowledged firing on a car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza after earlier denials as it opens a criminal probe into the January 2024 killing. cnn.it/3U6I6jU
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Justice for Hind and the multitude of other children whose names we don't know
The Hind Rajab Foundation announces it has submitted a 120 page filing to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, revealing the names of 24 Israeli soldiers implicated in the killing of Palestinian child Hind Rajab, six members of her family, along with two Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics, Yusuf al-Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoun, who were deliberately targeted while trying to rescue her on 29 January 2024 in Gaza City.
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The IDF decision is wrong and is painful for all of us. There was no excuse for their attacks on our team. There is no excuse for any attacks on any humanitarians. We will never ever forget our friends, our heroes, who were killed in Gaza. They lost their lives trying to feed hungry people. We will never stop fighting for truth and justice for them, for their families, for all humanitarians.
We strongly condemn the Israeli military prosecutor’s account of the deaths of our seven colleagues on April 1, 2024. And we fundamentally disagree with their decision about criminal investigations into the IDF airstrikes that killed our team.
Read our full statement here: wck.org/news/world-central-k…
David Frost retweeted
Why isn’t everyone demanding safety for Palestinians
Israel’s Minister of National Security advocates killing ’30 to 40′ people in Gaza nightly while speaking to ex-hostage theglobeandmail.com/world/ar…
David Frost retweeted
I am begging everyone to stop outsourcing your brain to robots. Life is worth living only because we feel and control every part of it. Please don't give away your agency.
David Frost retweeted
Dr. Kavita Algu’s story resonates with so many Canadians, particularly those who’ve been censored or lost their jobs for speaking out against Israel’s actions. Bravo to @KavitaAlguMD for exercising her oath as a doctor.
“I could no longer bring myself to give my labour to a workplace where people were targeted for speaking out against a genocide, including the bombing of hospitals and the murder and abduction of our Palestinian colleagues.”
✅Great investigative piece by @ShreeParadkar / thestar.com/news/investigati…
David Frost retweeted
The legacy of family medicine is built on compassion, courage, and an unwavering commitment to patients.
This powerful story honours family physicians Dr. Donna Keystone, Dr. Philip Berger, Dr. Alex Klein, Dr. Jeff Bloom, and Dr. Colin Kovac, whose compassionate care for patients living with HIV/AIDS challenged stigma and transformed lives. Their leadership helped advance more equitable, patient-centred care and continues to inspire family medicine today.
@UHN
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David Frost retweeted
It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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Israel responds to Iran's retaliatory strikes by cutting off all aid to Gaza.
This is a state which routinely collectively punishes civilians as a tactic of war.
This is monstrous, and it is also a grave war crime.
🚨BREAKING: Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza and halted the entry of humanitarian aid following Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel, cutting off supplies to roughly 2 million Palestinians in the territory.
Israel has imposed similar blanket closures during previous periods of regional escalation, including immediately after the outbreak of war in late February, collectively punishing Gaza’s civilian population.
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Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
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La marque qui a conçu la 250 GTO, la F40, la Enzo, la F12 a pondu cette chose ?????
L’automobile prend un virage que je ne peux pas supporter c’est quoi ce truc sans deconner ?
David Frost retweeted
Yes, the Ben-Gvir video is disgraceful. But that's not the issue. The (obvious) issue is that if that's how nonviolent European protesters are treated in public, any person with a brain can imagine how Palestinians are treated behind closed doors. *That* is the real scandal.
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Quienes consideran que ondear la bandera de un Estado es “incitar al odio”, o han perdido el juicio o han sido cegados por su propia ignominia.
Lamine solo ha expresado la solidaridad por Palestina que sentimos millones de españoles. Otro motivo más para estar orgullosos de él.
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Around 1,500 patients in Gaza have died while waiting for permission to travel abroad for medical treatment, according to data from the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Behind every number is a patient whose chance for survival depended on timely access to medical care.
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If openly displaying Palestinian symbols or identity is deemed unacceptable, imagine how unsafe it feels to simply be Palestinian. This should upset all of us. The failure of leadership across Canada’s medical community and academic medicine to confront and stop anti-Palestinian racism is unacceptable.
I tried to attend the @OntariosDoctors annual general meeting tonight in Ottawa, and was removed from the room by members of their executive team Sandy Zidaric and Adam Farber because I wore my watermelon pin that I’ve worn countless times without issue in many spaces including on parliament hill. They cited the concern that the watermelon pin as a political symbol could possibly make other physician colleagues in the room “uncomfortable” or “unsafe”.
All the while genocide continues in Palestine. When I asked if their policy of what could not be worn on the bodies of their members in their meetings have applied to any other political symbols or attire, they could not give me other examples. They asked me to remove the watermelon pin or leave the room, or sit in another room by myself to tune into the meeting virtually. I declined and left. I explained to them this is an incredibly disappointing and discriminatory policy for their meetings, and I hope it is revised.
I know medical colleagues including medical learners who have been kicked out of clinic because they wore a watermelon pin. These are examples of anti-Palestinian racism. As a physician, I stand in solidarity with my Palestinian medical colleagues who have been killed by the Israeli military and continue to be subjected to genocidal violence. Over 1,700 Palestinian healthcare workers have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza. Many Palestinian healthcare workers remain in Israeli captivity and are being tortured by the Israeli military, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a paediatrician who stayed to care for his patients in the hospital he was the medical director of.
Shame on @OntariosDoctors for not only censoring what is allowed to be displayed on the bodies of their members, and even more so to be painfully silent in the face of attacks on our medical and healthcare worker colleagues in Palestine. Don’t look away from the genocide in Gaza. These acts of discrimination are forms of racism, and racism is a distraction from the real issue of ending Canadian complicity in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
