When Dr. Joseph Dahine created his TikTok account last year, he never imagined he’d amass nearly 37,000 followers — simply for doing his job.
“I never thought that people would want to hear so much about the ICU and critical care and the health-care stuff, but they do,” he said.
An intensive care specialist at Cité-de-la-Santé hospital in Laval, Dahine has been using the platform to share what goes on behind the scenes at his job, fight misinformation about COVID-19 and other illnesses and even recruit nurses.
“It’s a human business and so showing the human aspect is something that I’ve enjoyed
