@TELUS What is going on? I've been a shareholder for a long time and am appalled at what I'm seeing. First, your Babylon @TELUSHealth is directly injuring our health system by disrupting the connection between patients and their family docs (we already have after-hours support

for our patients through PCNs - you're now diverting people away from care which is connected to their family docs - you don't connect with me in any way) and by promoting your @TELUSHealth service as providing easy access to referrals which are triggered by the fact that your

doctors CANNOT see patients in person (when a patient clearly needs to be seen in person, your system triggers an expensive and needless referral; when I care for a patient virtually, I can just ask them to come and see me if they don't need to see a specialist). @telushealth

is already disrupting and damaging the sustainability of our health system - which is exactly the opposite of what we need and what @shandro has been very clear is the thing he wants to achieve. But now today, when doing some research, I saw that a private fee-to-join clinic is

displaying proudly on its website that it's "supported by @TELUSHealth " This is madness. This is an outright betrayal of your core philosophy: "Building stronger communities together and helping those who need it the most." Sponsoring a private fee-for-access clinic means

you are choosing to support and promote a model which is for those who need it the LEAST. How dare you @Telus betray your shareholders and Canadians by saying you are "helping those who need it the most" when you are sponsoring and visibly endorsing a model of healthcare

which is unsustainable and, through executive medicals and the like, is known to increase costs and lead to decreased quality of care. It's time for @TELUS and @TELUSHealth to come clean and confront it's hypocrisy: Babylon and the sponsorship of fee-to-access private clinics

are actively destroying and dismantling our publicly-funding health system. Your actions are DIRECTLY making our health system unsustainable. The good news is you have a choice. You can now admit this and put all your creative power and technological genius to work and help us

make our system better (for real) and more sustainable. How? Keep the Wolff EMR going so that the family docs who use it don't have to spend all the time needed to transition to a new platform - so they can focus on the health of their patients instead. Next, work with

@ABFamDocs , @Albertadoctors , @GoAHealth , @UCalgaryMed and @UAlberta_FoMD to come up with collaborative projects which improve care and system sustainability while also delivering returns on your investment. Next, work with @foothillspcn and other PCNs and harness the power of

@TELUSHealth to work WITH us instead of AGAINST us. Finally, stop endorsing private fee-for-access clinics and instead sponsor the group practices and community based orgs like @TheAlexCHC and @CUPSCalgaryAB. They need your support and sponsorship, private clinic's don't.

It's time @Telus. Stop the hypocrisy. Stop interfering in the connections between patients and their family docs. Stop making our health system unsustainable. It's time to start doing in health what you say you do: "Building stronger communities together and helping those

who need it the most." If you really mean it, then do it. If you don't mean it, then change your mission to "Making communities weaker by damaging strong public systems and helping those who need it the least." Because that's exactly what you've been doing in Alberta in 2020.

@shandro, I am sorry you were taken in by @TelusHealth. They promised they would increase access and instead they are costing you more than the same care by family docs and are reducing access to care as their virtual docs have no way to examine patients in person, thereby

triggering referrals for patients who need to be seen in person, when I or any other family doc would have been able to easily just see them in person, leaving referrals for the patients who need them. I know @shandro that you want our health system to be sustainable. I'm sorry

that what you hoped @Telus would deliver is failing. But today, seeing that @telushealth is openly sponsoring and endorsing private fee-for-access clinics, which you and your @GoAHealth health economists know is an unsustainable model which is only accessible to the very rich,

@telushealth has shown their true colours: it is not interested (unless it changes) in best quality and sustainable health care. So now is the time: let's get a respectful agreement in place with @Albertadoctors to support sustainable medical care.

Here's the screen shot which started my rant.