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Justina Marianayagam, MD

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PGY2 Pediatrics Resident @UBCPediatrics | @loranscholar | interests in policy & rural health | 2nd gen immigrant et #bilingue 🇨🇦

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My family left #Yellowknife at 9 pm yesterday and have still not reached Edmonton. 24+ hours on the road and counting... Absolutely heartbreaking. #ClimateCrisis #NWTWildfires 📸 Pat Kane

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Perhaps one of the most rewarding parts of being in medicine is advocating for patients who are lost in our healthcare system!


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I enjoyed my conversation with @KatharineSmart – supporting researchers doing great work in child health is essential for rightsizing children’s health care! @ChildHealthCan

📣Check out the newest @ChildHealthCan SPARK: Conversations podcast where #IHDCYH’s Scientific Director @DrCChambers & host @KatharineSmart discuss the importance of research investments for improving health outcomes for children and youth! ➡️childrenshealthcarecanada.ca/en/spark/podca…

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DYK 20% of young people experience chronic pain?   Check out our updated review which confirmed that 1 in 5 children experience chronic pain. Open access paper: tinyurl.com/PediatricChron…   #ItDoesntHaveToHurt #ChronicPain #PainAwarenessMonth #ChildPain #WorldPainMonth

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Such an incredible group of people I’ve learned so much from over the last 5 years. 🧡 #ItDoesntHaveToHurt

This past month, the SKIP board convened for one last in-person meeting as an @NCE_RCE Over the course of the meeting the team engaged in exciting discussions about SKIP's future as a @DalhousieU centre!🤩 #ItDoesntHaveToHurt

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Ok, I admit I am both in awe and apprehensive. But it has me thinking about #ICUliberation! #PedsICU

❓Do your ECMO patients ride bikes? ❓What amazing things do your patients do on ECMO or on ventilator? This should be standard of care at all hospitals 🏥! This is amazing Marco a 9 y.o. cancer🎗️survivor waiting for lung top! See his amazing mom & page! @graziellahannan



Had to sneak in a picture of what I do when I’m not being a resident… 🎣 #NorthernPike

This Resident Doctors Appreciation Week, we're asking resident doctors: 'What does the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s vision of Transforming Health for Everyone mean to you as a resident doctor?' bit.ly/3uaqMhr #RDAW2024 #ResidentDoctorsAppreciationWeek

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This #ResidentDoctorsAppreciationWeek, join us in celebrating the dedication of more than 1,440 UBC residents who are delivering excellence in health care to patients and communities across British Columbia. 🩺bit.ly/3uaqMhr #RDAW2024 #ThankYouResidents

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Thank you for the cameo @ubcmedicine !

This #ResidentDoctorsAppreciationWeek, join us in celebrating the dedication of more than 1,440 UBC residents who are delivering excellence in health care to patients and communities across British Columbia. 🩺bit.ly/3uaqMhr #RDAW2024 #ThankYouResidents

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For #nationalpediatricianday, we honor some special individuals, nominated from @UBCPediatrics Their hard work and dedication to excellence in pediatric #care, #research, and #education, has provided the best potential for every child, youth, and caregiver in BC and beyond. 1of2

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A reminder of the world class care that Canada's children's hospitals deliver on a daily basis. Right-sizing children's health systems enables capacity for every day miracles to occur for children, youth and families. ❣️ @BCChildrensHosp theprovince.com/health/local-h…


-45°C in Yellowknife… this is what we call “Arctic mascara”. #LifeUpNorth

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I saw someone with frostbitten toes in the ER recently. He had slept in a stairwell when temperatures were under -30C. He in fact did have a home, but didn’t have the money he needed to get there. Lack of housing. Poverty. Canadian society should be warmer than this. #SDOH

In one of the world’s richest countries, hundreds of thousands of people are without housing. Housing First means saving lives by keeping people in housing ($3,500/month) vs in hospital ($30,000/month). But in Canadian winter, the policy focus seems to be removing tents when…



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🚨NEW ‘Youth in Pain’ project Resources!🚨 More Sickle Cell Disease tools are now online in EN & FR! Access a patient/caregiver focused Action Plan, Booklet, Poster & a health professional resource for the ED below⬇️ kidsinpain.ca/youth-in-pain/… #ItDoesntHaveToHurt

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I’m at the hospital with my daughter who is receiving an iron infusion. The care has been exceptional - the nurses kind, attentive, reassuring. A reminder that despite our challenges it is the people that remain extraordinary. 🙏🏼 #nurses #healthcare #cdnhealth


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Today, Senator Rosemary Moodie (@SenMoodie) made a statement regarding UNICEF Canada’s Report Card 18, which measures child poverty in 39 wealthy countries. Watch here: instagram.com/p/C0u5AnlRDie/


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Speaker @GregFergus has my full support.  Thank you to @blackvotecanada for highlighting the higher standards imposed on Black Canadians in positions of power and success. We can not make that mistake here.

Operation Black Vote Canada Responds to the recent events surrounding calls for Speaker Fergus to resign.

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“1 in 5 emergency visits involved patients who went to emergency for non-urgent issues because they did not have access to a family doctor or other services” -Ontario's acting auditor general The #primarycare crisis effects all parts of the health system cbc.ca/news/canada/to…


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If you don't know where you're going, you'll never get there. For too long, children have been supported by a patchwork of programs, supports, and benefits, resulting in poor outcomes for many. It's time to prevent children from falling through the cracks. 1/3

Earlier today, @SenMoodie’s Bill #S282 was introduced at first reading in the Senate: ow.ly/Z5jp50Qa6kp #SenCA #CdnPoli



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@ChildKindIntl is dedicated to improving the quality of pediatric pain care around the world. Consider embarking on a journey towards receiving ChildKind certification: childkindinternational.org


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