Tod MaffinCanadian Commentator, From Far and Wide · Emotional Support Canadian

Hey Vancouver Island healthcare people

22 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube announcement, the speaker (the creator and his wife) describes a community‑building project they have launched to attract U.S. healthcare professionals to Vancouver Island and the broader province of British Columbia. The project consists of a dedicated website and a Discord server where incoming American clinicians can ask questions about living and working in BC. The speaker outlines a set of profession‑specific Discord channels—doctors, surgeons, EMS, medical technologists, mental health, social workers, pharmacists, nurses, dentists, and eye doctors—and asks local Vancouver Island and BC healthcare workers to join the server, locate their relevant channel, and help answer the newcomers’ queries. The tone is informal and enthusiastic, and the speaker’s sentiment is supportive, urging community participation.

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Hello Vancouver Island! My wife and I have been working on this project. It started with the Denaimo Infusion. It is now a website and Discord server to attract healthcare professionals from the US up here to Vancouver Island and to the rest of BC. We could use your help. We set up a Discord server, which is like a big chat room, and a whole lot of American healthcare workers are starting to pile in. We need people from Vancouver Island or even from across BC who are in specific professions in healthcare to go into that channel and talk a bit about your profession. There's lots of people with questions in there. There's channels for doctors, surgeons, EMS, medical technologists, mental health, social workers, pharmacists, nurses, dentists, eye doctors. If you're in healthcare at all and you're comfortable with the Discord chat room, please join us in there. Find your channel and help us answer some questions that people have. Cool, thanks.