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Dr. Shazma Mithani | Top 40 Under 40 2022 | Edify.
After a long shift in the ER providing life-saving care for patients, Shazma Mithani goes home to tweet. With 20,000+ followers on Twitter — and 3,000+ more on other social media platforms — she uses her expertise to share useful, trust-worthy health-care advice to help empower others.
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Lessons from the heart of the emergency department | Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
Ask any emergency department doctor and they will tell you — in their world, there’s really no such thing as a “typical day.”
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Raise Her Up: Shazma Mithani | Poppy Barley
Meet emergency room doctor, mother of two and female powerhouse, Shazma Mithani. During the workday, Shazma splits her workdays between the Royal Alexandra Hospital and the Stollery Children’s Hospital.
Opinion pieces
“You signed up for this.”
When we took that oath and committed to a life as physicians, we knew that it would change us. // Read more
We know that abortion is crucial health care for women
Calgary Herald
We are two physicians — one working in the ER, one working in women’s health — who see circumstances like Dallas’s, as well as myriad challenges faced by pregnant patients every day. Each story is different, and each patient deserves the right to make the choice that is right for them. // Read more
Pandemic shows how far women have come, how far they must go
Calgary Herald
We are now one year into a pandemic that will define our generation. As we reflect on what this year has meant, both the hardships and growth, it is important that we also reflect on how this pandemic has been uniquely experienced by women. Women at the front-lines have been under immense pressure from Day 1. // Read more
Time for politicians to stop ignoring primary health care
Edmonton Journal
After nearly three years of a devastating global pandemic, our health-care system is hanging on by a thread. The consequences of 30 months of policymakers ignoring the calls of health-care workers across the country to protect our system are starkly in front of us. // Read more
Podcast episodes
Healthcare system strain
Doctor advocates for changes to health care in Alberta | Global News
Edmonton emergency doctor Shazma Mithani came off a shift one night last week with a horrifying thought: If this continues, we are going to have kids die in the waiting room.
There were never fewer than 30 or 40 sick, ailing and hurt babies and children waiting to be seen over the course of her 10-hour shift at Edmonton’s Stollery Children’s Hospital which, like many kids’ hospitals across Canada, is being pushed to capacity and beyond. // Read more
Drug poisoning crisis
Edmonton pharmacy making a difference in opioid crisis | Alberta College of Pharmacy
Every day at work in an Edmonton emergency department, Dr. Shazma Mithani treats patients with opioid poisoning. She has noticed a rapid increase in opioid poisonings in her ER this past year, but more so in the last several months.
“The opioid crisis is one of the biggest threats to lives right now in Alberta,” said Shazma. “In 2020, and now so far in 2021, the number of people who have died from opioid poisoning has exceeded those of COVID deaths. // Read more
‘We’re the worst, again’ — Exhausted Alberta doctors raise COVID alarm as cases spike and hospitals feel pressure
The Star
Dr. Shazma Mithani is tired.
The Edmonton emergency room physician is fresh off a 10-hour overnight shift and is already on her third media call of the day. // Read more
The third wave: The shortage of health-care workers because they are too burnt out or sick themselves
The National Post
The pandemic affects those who’ve fallen ill and those who love them, but it also burdens those who care for the stricken and see first-hand what happens in hospitals and care homes where people are sick and dying. // Read more
