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Irfan Dhalla

@IrfanDhalla

Vice-president and general internist @unityhealthto, associate prof @uoftmedicine, and very fortunate husband and father. He/him.
Toronto unityhealth.to Joined January 2010
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Irfan Dhalla @IrfanDhalla
Governments in 🇨🇦 spend less on health care than governments in 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇳🇴 🇳🇱 🇩🇰 🇸🇪 🇦🇹 🇨🇭 🇱🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇪 and 🇬🇧 according to OECD. And we have to pay similar wages to 🇺🇸. Yes, we do need structural changes. But we also need more funding to serve everyone well.
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Irfan Dhalla @IrfanDhalla
Congrats @AmolAVerma and colleagues on developing, implementing and evaluating a machine-learning based tool that is saving lives at @UnityHealthTO! cmaj.ca/content/196/30…
www.cmaj.ca Clinical evaluation of a machine learning–based early warning system for patient deterioration Background:The implementation and clinical impact of machine learning–based early warning systems for patient deterioration in hospitals have not been well described. We sought to describe the...
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Irfan Dhalla @IrfanDhalla
Congrats Mike!
Michael Fralick @FralickMike Aug 19, 2024
🚨My book of One-Pagers is published🚨 This book (shorturl.at/eMb24) is a culmination of years of work and inspired by the one pagers Dr. Ophyr Mourad shared with me when i was a first year resident @uoftmedicine. here is a sneak peak of my favourite pages (nerd alert!). 1/6 🧵
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Irfan Dhalla @IrfanDhalla
"my standing advice to students and residents: do not worry about machine learning; worry more about how you can become a learning machine"

Nice line from Gurpreet Dhaliwal in this excellent editorial about diagnosis.

qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/33/9/5…
qualitysafety.bmj.com ‘This time is different’: physician knowledge in the age of artificial intelligence Great diagnosticians are often portrayed as recognising rare diseases that evade the efforts of mere mortals. This makes for great TV and local legends, but does not reflect daily practice, where the...