COVID 19: RESOURCES ON TREATMENT WITH MELATONIN

 

See here for the symposium: COVID-19: Paradigm Shifting Into 2021 with the Benefit of 2020 Hindsight (treating C19 in the community with high dose melatonin): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_4JeOj1JLc  

You can watch this at 2x speed in the interest of time. Dr. Neel's presentation on his pioneering experience with treatment in the community starts about the 15 minute mark.

Dr Neel presented an update in May. His presentation is here at the 38:15 mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljNlg6DJ4AU

Further readings:

Feb 2022: https://t.co/laVOM5uXXK

January 2022 articles:

https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024320522000686?via%3Dihub… https://mdpi.com/2076-3921/11/1/140/htm… https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35032042/

Recent article with colleagues: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8482145/

Click here to view the key article that initiated the discussion on using melatonin to treat COVID, from March 23 Life Sciences, COVID-19: Melatonin as a potential adjuvant treatment.

The June 2020 edition of Melatonin Research is entirely devoted to exploring the role of melatonin & COVID-19.

An article describing melatonin as a “silver bullet” with regards to treating COVID.

From early April - a nice overall perspective 

The Semmelweis Reflex

Clinical trials underway here 

FIASMAs for the COVID-19 miasma: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcpt.13390?af=R

Please note: melatonin can have side effects that are not commonly described but might not be that uncommon: https://www.cmaj.ca/content/early/2012/04/16/cmaj.111765/tab-e-letters?versioned=true

Looking forward to the realization of Willard Wigan's depiction of the end of COVID through vaccination :

If you are suffering from a lack of awesome in your life, go to https://www.willardwiganmbe.com/

June 21 :PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE: An Evening with Angela Chen

PJune brings with it fresh bursts of colour, including the colours of the rainbow flag representing Toronto’s Pride Month.

 You are invited to spend an evening contemplating the purple end of that flag (purple being one of the colours of the asexual community) with Angela Chen, the author of Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex.

What does it mean to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction?

What can the asexual perspective can teach all of us about desire and pleasure and intimacy?
What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and consent, and the pressures of society?

What is the difference between asexuality and sexual dysfunction?

As a physician, how comfortable are you when patients raise the possibility that they are asexual? Do you rush to do blood work, or help them reflect on their personal values?

What biases do you bring into your interactions with members of the asexual community?

 Please join us for a thought-provoking evening exploring these and other questions in the Virtual Doctors’ Lounge.

May 27: An Evening with Dr. Shawn Whatley

Dignity.

Whatever happened to that concept as being at the core of patient care?

Where does clinical judgement and respect for autonomy fit into a bureaucracy driven health care system that is primarily interested in the optics of maintaining a health care system whose objective is creating an identity of a caring society?

You are invited to explore these questions in the Doctors’ Lounge series with former OMA President Shawn Whatley, as we explore the premise behind his latest book, When Politics Comes Before Patients - Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing.

Please join us as we explore the future of medical care with one of our profession’s thought leaders.

April 22: Earth Day with Drs. Jeremy Theal & Joyce Lee

“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.”-Oscar Wilde

 

During these chaotic times, it is hard to maintain an optimistic attitude, especially when multiple catastrophes are occurring simultaneously. We may be soon done with the worst of the COVID crisis, but the climate emergency marches forward.

The Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change states: "Tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century."

The Doctors’ Lounge invites you to explore your role in that opportunity.

Climate change affects our health, locally and globally, through direct effects (extreme weather, wildfires, air pollution, flooding, droughts, storms) as well as indirect effects (nutrition, food insecurity, cardiac and respiratory conditions, infectious diseases, allergies, and mental health).  As well, downstream effects of climate change include political and economic instability, climate refugees, as well as intergenerational socioeconomic inequity and injustice. 

You are invited to consider concrete steps that you, as a physician, can take to address climate change in your life, your practice and your communities.

Our guides for the evening are Drs. Joyce Lee and Jeremy Theal, who trained under Nobel Laureate Al Gore in March 2018 to become Climate Reality Leaders.  Dr. Joyce Lee is a Care of the Elderly physician at North York General Hospital.  Dr. Jeremy Theal is a staff Gastroenterologist and the Chief Medical Information Officer at North York General Hospital. Their goal is to share the scientific certainty, the immediacy, and the impacts of the climate crisis, while inspiring people to act on this important issue.

Please join us as we explore of the greatest health challenge of our time.  Please also consider visiting the OMA webpage, opening your profile, and under Groups adding your name to the membership of the Green is Health Medical Interest Group to keep up to date on this important issue, or follow them on Twitter at @greenishealthmd.

March 16: An Evening With Dr. Danielle Ofri

The Doctors’ Lounge series invites you to share an evening with physician author Dr. Danielle Ofri as we explore the topic of her latest of book, When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error. 

If the evening goes well, we will have the opportunity to reflect on all of the subjects that she has covered in her eight books, as well as her participation in the documentary Why Doctors Write .  

Dr. Ofri, MD, PhD, is one of the foremost voices in the medical world today, shining an unflinching light on the realities of healthcare, and speaking passionately about the doctor-patient relationship. She writes about medicine and the doctor-patient connection. Her writing appears regularly in the New York Times, as well as in the New Yorker, Slate Magazine, the Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, and other publications. She is a founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Bellevue Literary Review, the first literary journal to arise from a medical setting.  Her essays have been selected by Stephen Jay Gould, Oliver Sacks, and Susan Orlean for Best American Essays (twice) and Best American Science Writing. She has received the McGovern Award from the American Medical Writers Association for “preeminent contributions to medical communication.”  She is also the recipient of the 2020 National Humanism in Medicine Medal from the Gold Foundation. She strives for a serene, uncluttered life of Zen, but has teenagers instead. 

Please join us as we continue our long-standing tradition of celebrating March and the beginning of spring with the power of story. 

February 23, 2021: An Evening with Drs. Vinita Dubey, Justin Presseau and Kim Corace

 “Public health moves at the speed of trust” -Rishi Manchanda

 

If there is one word that will characterize 2021, trust might be it.

2020 was a year where trust in government, scientific expertise and public health advice have all to one degree or another faced challenges.

Physicians in the trenches have had to, and continue to, struggle with the role of clinician, juggling known knowns with unknown knowns and unknown unknowns.

You might feel that you need some additional guidance yourself as you try to balance the art with the science of medicine, while navigating the uncharted territories of COVID-19.

How to proceed, as the challenges of clinical care and opportunities provided by the miracles of immunization converge?

 You are invited to the first Doctors’ Lounge event of 2021 to explore those challenges, and discuss possible strategies and solutions.

Our guides will be:

Dr. Vinita Dubey, Associate Medical Officer for the City of Toronto and an expert in vaccine hesitancy.

Dr. Justin Presseau, Scientist (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute), Associate Professor (School of Epidemiology and Public Health, and School of Psychology, uOttawa), Chair, Health Psychology & Behavioural Medicine Section, Canadian Psychological Association.

Dr. Kim Corace, Vice President of Innovation and Transformation at The Royal Ottawa Health Care Group and President, Canadian Psychological Association

 Please join us in the virtual Doctors’ Lounge as we explore the recipe for ending the toll of the pandemic.

Further resources:   https://cep.health/

                                https://www.nejm.org/covid-vaccine/faq

                                    https://www.vaccineconfidence.org/