[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @raghu_venugopal Raghu Venugopal MD Dr. Raghu Venugopal, a physician, has been sharing his experiences and insights on healthcare and social issues on Twitter. He recently expressed frustration with misinformation about vaccines and the healthcare system, and emphasized the importance of publicly funded healthcare in Canada. He also highlighted the need for prevention and harm reduction strategies, such as safe consumption sites, to reduce the burden on the healthcare system. ### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1750628942/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +51% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +85% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1750628942/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XXX +12% - X Months XXXXX +112% - X Year XXXXX +57% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1750628942/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.30% - X Month XXXXXX +2.40% - X Months XXXXXX +16% - X Year XXXXXX +40% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1750628942/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) **Social topic influence** [canada](/topic/canada) #1235, [denmark](/topic/denmark) #294, [greenland](/topic/greenland) #149, [united states](/topic/united-states), [trade war](/topic/trade-war), [history](/topic/history), [safely](/topic/safely), [ethiopia](/topic/ethiopia), [donald trump](/topic/donald-trump), [the kingdom](/topic/the-kingdom) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@fordnation](/creator/undefined) [@sylviajonesmpp](/creator/undefined) [@justintrudeau](/creator/undefined) [@markjcarney](/creator/undefined) [@ontariosdoctors](/creator/undefined) [@caepdocs](/creator/undefined) [@shamjiadil](/creator/undefined) [@picardonhealth](/creator/undefined) [@cmadocs](/creator/undefined) [@nickelbelt](/creator/undefined) [@ontariohealthc](/creator/undefined) [@maritstiles](/creator/undefined) [@markhollandlib](/creator/undefined) [@raghuvenugopal](/creator/undefined) [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@alandrummond2](/creator/undefined) [@msf](/creator/undefined) [@mayoroliviachow](/creator/undefined) [@realdonaldtrump](/creator/undefined) [@mikeschreiner](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Trump used a complete fabrication of Canadian-sourced fentanyl to launch a ridiculous trade war imperilling Canadian jobs and funding priorities like healthcare. Good on Canadians for choosing to boycott US travel. Let's shut it all down" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1987624457217740861) 2025-11-09T20:52Z 16.2K followers, 37.1K engagements "It can't just be informed journalists and doctors pushing for families to get their flu vaccine. We need government to flood the airwaves. Influenza has killed XX in Canada so far this season. Key reporting by @LaurenPelley" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1996718339083624791) 2025-12-04T23:08Z 16.2K followers, 8593 engagements "I love being an ER doc. I study X hours on stroke updates and immediately use it on shift. I attend X talks on anemia updates and immediately use it on shift. It's so easy just to want to study more and more medicine. The payback to help people is literally instant" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1996935100286509368) 2025-12-05T13:30Z 16.2K followers, 9181 engagements "I read the words of Dr. Ma and I look in her eyes - and I don't see a liar or a thief. I see a doctor who faithfully served her nation at its time of need. The Ontario Government is disgraceful. @fordnation @SylviaJonesMPP @AlexaNGilmour @RobinLennox" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1997303765087514841) 2025-12-06T13:55Z 16.2K followers, 23.7K engagements "Irish Italians Japanese Hispanic Chinese - and many others faced racism throughout North American history. Trump is textbook racist. He celebrates it. He is a repugnant example to young people. He stokes hatred among people" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1996306541066989928) 2025-12-03T19:52Z 16.2K followers, 2057 engagements "Mr Poilievre would honour victims by repealing gun control laws" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1997345990643241260) 2025-12-06T16:42Z 16.2K followers, 7847 engagements "Americans did surgeries to save 15-year old Ethiopian Mesfin Yana. His U.S. cardiologist opened his home. Yana Dollar is now a cardiac perfusionist at Mayo. Mesfin and his own surgeon return to Ethiopia to operate. There are many many good Americans" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1997772238167191611) 2025-12-07T20:56Z 16.2K followers, 3579 engagements "The United States is itself the threat. Canada supports a free and autonomous Greenland and sovereign Denmark. @OJoelsen" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1998514806371004523) 2025-12-09T22:07Z 16.2K followers, 1369 engagements "Marcus Gee takes necessary stock of the opioid crisis in Barrie Ontario. @marcusbgee This scourge has killed 53000 Canadians - mostly young adults - double the losses of World War II. It is far from over. Very far" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1998922731254104262) 2025-12-11T01:08Z 16.2K followers, XXX engagements "The opioid crisis really hits you when your ER patient is brought in essentially dead already - and can't be saved. No apparent family and no one to call. A young Canadian who didn't live anything close to a full life. It especially makes me very sad there's no one to call" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1998926268029612127) 2025-12-11T01:22Z 16.2K followers, 8571 engagements "We love the cold. We love the ice. We love the snow. We love the wind. We are the Canadians" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1997998648156717210) 2025-12-08T11:56Z 16.2K followers, 19.9K engagements "Canada joins the sovereign Kingdom of Denmark. The United States is a threat. @OJoelsen" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1998926989349237125) 2025-12-11T01:25Z 16.2K followers, 1264 engagements "No. Canadians would rather shred every road fell every tree butcher every livestock torch every field raze every home demolish every buildings befoul all waters level every mountain self-detonate XXX nuclear bombs than have anything to do with the U.S. @ElephantSignal" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1989501200195100732) 2025-11-15T01:10Z 16.2K followers, 268K engagements "ER doctor here. Get your flu shot. My completely healthy patients get really smitten hard. I've also had healthy patients with flu land in the intensive care unit intubated and on a ventilator. Even if it is not a perfect match get your flu shot" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1994247598832562459) 2025-11-28T03:30Z 16.2K followers, 38.4K engagements "Buy Canadian. Boycott American" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1994771922618290183) 2025-11-29T14:14Z 16.2K followers, 35.7K engagements "Too many forget the toll on children of measles diphtheria whooping cough and polio - each with a safe and effective vaccine" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1994807899479326930) 2025-11-29T16:37Z 16.2K followers, 1268 engagements "Anemia and separate from that - iron deficiency - robs many patients - especially women - of their full physical and mental capabilities. Intravenous iron should be publicly funded. It is literal medical misogyny that it is not" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1996302768693276853) 2025-12-03T19:37Z 16.2K followers, 2252 engagements "Canada returns its love of free Greenland and sovereign Denmark. Free of American colonialism and free of threats. @OJoelsen" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1996409629161697629) 2025-12-04T02:42Z 16.2K followers, 70.2K engagements "I feel that kids younger adults and seniors have been hit hard based on what Im seeing in ER. As usual also - we knew this was coming but there is no additional resources - so we muddle through in ER in collective misery. @BogochIsaac" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1997342448159240474) 2025-12-06T16:28Z 16.2K followers, 3916 engagements "What would they do to you This is how they treat an XX pound 4'11'' American citizen with ID in scrubs on the way to work as a therapist and who complied. She was released. No charges after an illegal search and seizure" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1997669670527098912) 2025-12-07T14:08Z 16.2K followers, 1218 engagements "MAGA glee with extrajudicial murder is the heart of evil" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1998180194222490107) 2025-12-08T23:57Z 16.2K followers, XXX engagements "I appreciate @MooreintheAM giving air on @NEWSTALK1010 to private vs. public healthcare in Ontario. It's complex but comes down to Tim Horton's. If there's a long line at Tim's the last thing to do is pull employees to open a premium line for those paying an extra $XXX. Why 👇👇 Few can afford the $XXX line regardless of how they vote. Other employees migrate to the premium line - making the common line longer. Same in healthcare. Have one line. Add more employees and add more cash registers. This is an important public discussion and we need to be clear Conservatives played an important role" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1998374433556136388) 2025-12-09T12:49Z 16.2K followers, 1626 engagements "Whole body MRI "Peace of Mind is a Scan Away" makes no medical sense. Canadian radiologists opposes it for asymptomatic screening outside of specific and evidence-based indications. On the radio every day. @cpso_ca @OntariosDoctors @NEWSTALK1010 @MooreintheAM" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1998397187651223875) 2025-12-09T14:19Z 16.2K followers, 1044 engagements "Ontario former Premier Wynne is 1000% right on @NEWSTALK1010 and @MooreintheAM there's a big difference between private not-for-profit surgical clinics and profiteering. As a doctor I'm incorporated - most of us are. But not 3rd party profit. @Kathleen_Wynne" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1998403405396484262) 2025-12-09T14:44Z 16.2K followers, 1025 engagements "The big Canadian healthcare myth. If theres a long line up and you bribe an employee to stop serving the common line and just serve those forking over a ton of money - the delusion is youre helping commoners. Youre just helping yourself and making the majority wait longer" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1998539847397490877) 2025-12-09T23:46Z 16.2K followers, 2903 engagements "Tylenol is safe. Vaccines are safe. ER waits and ER overcrowding kills. Too bad the antivaxx conspiracy crowd could not channel their limitless energy into something that factually mattered" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1996640153553850568) 2025-12-04T17:58Z 16.2K followers, 18.6K engagements "Get your flu shot. There's a deluge of sick children coming to ER. And in adults - fainting low blood pressure misery and ICU admission. And falls in the elderly. The many ways flu affects ER patients. And XX have died this flu season in Canada" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1996677612023042093) 2025-12-04T20:26Z 16.2K followers, 18.6K engagements "I applaud the Canadian government for this sound policy. Physicians living and working in Canada should be a priority for permanent residency. There's no question this should be extended to nurses. Great work by @LenaMetlegeDiab" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1998147685010784335) 2025-12-08T21:48Z 16.2K followers, 19.4K engagements "OV Surgical brags "without the long waits of the public system" as if public is a leper. But who is profiteering off this and why isn't OV Surgical not-for-profit like the Schroeder Ambulatory Centre. @robferguson1 @Megan_Ogilvie @picardonhealth" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1998205506939506853) 2025-12-09T01:38Z 16.2K followers, 9131 engagements "Privatize surgery in Ontario Ask a surgeon. Dr. Coburn is a Toronto cancer surgeon. @DrNCoburn" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1998388669737308418) 2025-12-09T13:46Z 16.2K followers, 13.7K engagements "ER doc here. Kids young adults and seniors are all coming to ER and selectively testing is showing the impact of flu this year. The vaccine - perfect or not - is as important as ever. Reporting by @Sadeenmohsen" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1998848974753509409) 2025-12-10T20:15Z 16.2K followers, 2386 engagements "We squander qualified and dedicated surgeons in Canada and worse off is their patient. We need to free surgeons to operate in our publicly funded system. I would go insane if the hospital canceled my patients spinal tap or shoulder reduction because it was 330pm. @jamesdownar" [X Link](https://x.com/raghu_venugopal/status/1999096746064929073) 2025-12-11T12:39Z 16.2K followers, 4481 engagements
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@raghu_venugopal Raghu Venugopal MD
Dr. Raghu Venugopal, a physician, has been sharing his experiences and insights on healthcare and social issues on Twitter. He recently expressed frustration with misinformation about vaccines and the healthcare system, and emphasized the importance of publicly funded healthcare in Canada. He also highlighted the need for prevention and harm reduction strategies, such as safe consumption sites, to reduce the burden on the healthcare system.
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- X Month XXXXXXXXX -XX%
- X Months XXXXXXXXXX +51%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXX +85%
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- X Month XXX +12%
- X Months XXXXX +112%
- X Year XXXXX +57%
Followers: XXXXXX #
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Social Influence
Social category influence countries finance travel destinations
Social topic influence canada #1235, denmark #294, greenland #149, united states, trade war, history, safely, ethiopia, donald trump, the kingdom
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @fordnation @sylviajonesmpp @justintrudeau @markjcarney @ontariosdoctors @caepdocs @shamjiadil @picardonhealth @cmadocs @nickelbelt @ontariohealthc @maritstiles @markhollandlib @raghuvenugopal @elonmusk @alandrummond2 @msf @mayoroliviachow @realdonaldtrump @mikeschreiner
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Trump used a complete fabrication of Canadian-sourced fentanyl to launch a ridiculous trade war imperilling Canadian jobs and funding priorities like healthcare. Good on Canadians for choosing to boycott US travel. Let's shut it all down"
X Link 2025-11-09T20:52Z 16.2K followers, 37.1K engagements
"It can't just be informed journalists and doctors pushing for families to get their flu vaccine. We need government to flood the airwaves. Influenza has killed XX in Canada so far this season. Key reporting by @LaurenPelley"
X Link 2025-12-04T23:08Z 16.2K followers, 8593 engagements
"I love being an ER doc. I study X hours on stroke updates and immediately use it on shift. I attend X talks on anemia updates and immediately use it on shift. It's so easy just to want to study more and more medicine. The payback to help people is literally instant"
X Link 2025-12-05T13:30Z 16.2K followers, 9181 engagements
"I read the words of Dr. Ma and I look in her eyes - and I don't see a liar or a thief. I see a doctor who faithfully served her nation at its time of need. The Ontario Government is disgraceful. @fordnation @SylviaJonesMPP @AlexaNGilmour @RobinLennox"
X Link 2025-12-06T13:55Z 16.2K followers, 23.7K engagements
"Irish Italians Japanese Hispanic Chinese - and many others faced racism throughout North American history. Trump is textbook racist. He celebrates it. He is a repugnant example to young people. He stokes hatred among people"
X Link 2025-12-03T19:52Z 16.2K followers, 2057 engagements
"Mr Poilievre would honour victims by repealing gun control laws"
X Link 2025-12-06T16:42Z 16.2K followers, 7847 engagements
"Americans did surgeries to save 15-year old Ethiopian Mesfin Yana. His U.S. cardiologist opened his home. Yana Dollar is now a cardiac perfusionist at Mayo. Mesfin and his own surgeon return to Ethiopia to operate. There are many many good Americans"
X Link 2025-12-07T20:56Z 16.2K followers, 3579 engagements
"The United States is itself the threat. Canada supports a free and autonomous Greenland and sovereign Denmark. @OJoelsen"
X Link 2025-12-09T22:07Z 16.2K followers, 1369 engagements
"Marcus Gee takes necessary stock of the opioid crisis in Barrie Ontario. @marcusbgee This scourge has killed 53000 Canadians - mostly young adults - double the losses of World War II. It is far from over. Very far"
X Link 2025-12-11T01:08Z 16.2K followers, XXX engagements
"The opioid crisis really hits you when your ER patient is brought in essentially dead already - and can't be saved. No apparent family and no one to call. A young Canadian who didn't live anything close to a full life. It especially makes me very sad there's no one to call"
X Link 2025-12-11T01:22Z 16.2K followers, 8571 engagements
"We love the cold. We love the ice. We love the snow. We love the wind. We are the Canadians"
X Link 2025-12-08T11:56Z 16.2K followers, 19.9K engagements
"Canada joins the sovereign Kingdom of Denmark. The United States is a threat. @OJoelsen"
X Link 2025-12-11T01:25Z 16.2K followers, 1264 engagements
"No. Canadians would rather shred every road fell every tree butcher every livestock torch every field raze every home demolish every buildings befoul all waters level every mountain self-detonate XXX nuclear bombs than have anything to do with the U.S. @ElephantSignal"
X Link 2025-11-15T01:10Z 16.2K followers, 268K engagements
"ER doctor here. Get your flu shot. My completely healthy patients get really smitten hard. I've also had healthy patients with flu land in the intensive care unit intubated and on a ventilator. Even if it is not a perfect match get your flu shot"
X Link 2025-11-28T03:30Z 16.2K followers, 38.4K engagements
"Buy Canadian. Boycott American"
X Link 2025-11-29T14:14Z 16.2K followers, 35.7K engagements
"Too many forget the toll on children of measles diphtheria whooping cough and polio - each with a safe and effective vaccine"
X Link 2025-11-29T16:37Z 16.2K followers, 1268 engagements
"Anemia and separate from that - iron deficiency - robs many patients - especially women - of their full physical and mental capabilities. Intravenous iron should be publicly funded. It is literal medical misogyny that it is not"
X Link 2025-12-03T19:37Z 16.2K followers, 2252 engagements
"Canada returns its love of free Greenland and sovereign Denmark. Free of American colonialism and free of threats. @OJoelsen"
X Link 2025-12-04T02:42Z 16.2K followers, 70.2K engagements
"I feel that kids younger adults and seniors have been hit hard based on what Im seeing in ER. As usual also - we knew this was coming but there is no additional resources - so we muddle through in ER in collective misery. @BogochIsaac"
X Link 2025-12-06T16:28Z 16.2K followers, 3916 engagements
"What would they do to you This is how they treat an XX pound 4'11'' American citizen with ID in scrubs on the way to work as a therapist and who complied. She was released. No charges after an illegal search and seizure"
X Link 2025-12-07T14:08Z 16.2K followers, 1218 engagements
"MAGA glee with extrajudicial murder is the heart of evil"
X Link 2025-12-08T23:57Z 16.2K followers, XXX engagements
"I appreciate @MooreintheAM giving air on @NEWSTALK1010 to private vs. public healthcare in Ontario. It's complex but comes down to Tim Horton's. If there's a long line at Tim's the last thing to do is pull employees to open a premium line for those paying an extra $XXX. Why 👇👇 Few can afford the $XXX line regardless of how they vote. Other employees migrate to the premium line - making the common line longer. Same in healthcare. Have one line. Add more employees and add more cash registers. This is an important public discussion and we need to be clear Conservatives played an important role"
X Link 2025-12-09T12:49Z 16.2K followers, 1626 engagements
"Whole body MRI "Peace of Mind is a Scan Away" makes no medical sense. Canadian radiologists opposes it for asymptomatic screening outside of specific and evidence-based indications. On the radio every day. @cpso_ca @OntariosDoctors @NEWSTALK1010 @MooreintheAM"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:19Z 16.2K followers, 1044 engagements
"Ontario former Premier Wynne is 1000% right on @NEWSTALK1010 and @MooreintheAM there's a big difference between private not-for-profit surgical clinics and profiteering. As a doctor I'm incorporated - most of us are. But not 3rd party profit. @Kathleen_Wynne"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:44Z 16.2K followers, 1025 engagements
"The big Canadian healthcare myth. If theres a long line up and you bribe an employee to stop serving the common line and just serve those forking over a ton of money - the delusion is youre helping commoners. Youre just helping yourself and making the majority wait longer"
X Link 2025-12-09T23:46Z 16.2K followers, 2903 engagements
"Tylenol is safe. Vaccines are safe. ER waits and ER overcrowding kills. Too bad the antivaxx conspiracy crowd could not channel their limitless energy into something that factually mattered"
X Link 2025-12-04T17:58Z 16.2K followers, 18.6K engagements
"Get your flu shot. There's a deluge of sick children coming to ER. And in adults - fainting low blood pressure misery and ICU admission. And falls in the elderly. The many ways flu affects ER patients. And XX have died this flu season in Canada"
X Link 2025-12-04T20:26Z 16.2K followers, 18.6K engagements
"I applaud the Canadian government for this sound policy. Physicians living and working in Canada should be a priority for permanent residency. There's no question this should be extended to nurses. Great work by @LenaMetlegeDiab"
X Link 2025-12-08T21:48Z 16.2K followers, 19.4K engagements
"OV Surgical brags "without the long waits of the public system" as if public is a leper. But who is profiteering off this and why isn't OV Surgical not-for-profit like the Schroeder Ambulatory Centre. @robferguson1 @Megan_Ogilvie @picardonhealth"
X Link 2025-12-09T01:38Z 16.2K followers, 9131 engagements
"Privatize surgery in Ontario Ask a surgeon. Dr. Coburn is a Toronto cancer surgeon. @DrNCoburn"
X Link 2025-12-09T13:46Z 16.2K followers, 13.7K engagements
"ER doc here. Kids young adults and seniors are all coming to ER and selectively testing is showing the impact of flu this year. The vaccine - perfect or not - is as important as ever. Reporting by @Sadeenmohsen"
X Link 2025-12-10T20:15Z 16.2K followers, 2386 engagements
"We squander qualified and dedicated surgeons in Canada and worse off is their patient. We need to free surgeons to operate in our publicly funded system. I would go insane if the hospital canceled my patients spinal tap or shoulder reduction because it was 330pm. @jamesdownar"
X Link 2025-12-11T12:39Z 16.2K followers, 4481 engagements