We only get to stop these horrors if we carefully look at root causes and make changes. Blaming ONE cause only hurts the folks who don't do these things.

As the parent of kids the ages of those who died, this is horrifying, and I never want this to happen again. As a psychiatrist I want all the mental health care funding. And as a queer woman I want to make sure all my trans siblings are safe.

We need more access to mental health care everywhere. Especially to any marginalized community like trans folk and rural communities. And we need even better gun laws. But why this trafedy happened is WAY more complex that 'mental health'. And it's DEFINTELY not because someone was trans.

Hey, so I worked in #LaLoche for almost 10 years post school shooting. Ditto for almost 10 years of trans care. None of my patients, who struggled with significant mental illness, many of whom had access to guns, and a ton who were trans, shot up a school.

I'm watching you in person AND talking to you in the ether @naheednenshi.bsky.social

Oooooh, human centered economic growth! (The only economic growth I care about).

Welp, the dignity of every human and their ability to thrive wherever circumstances they find themselves in sure encapsulates my political goals. Thank you for such a succinct summary of your stance @naheednenshi.bsky.social

@naheednenshi.bsky.social aren't you charming! Loved the leaders gala tonight. What a great first outing here for me in Alberta!

Teenagers are “too young” to make decisions on gender affirming care.

They’re “too young to vote”.

They’re too young to drink.

But they’re not too young to be sex trafficked and raped by Epstein and all his rich pals?

Be serious please.

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An old psychiatrist sitting in a helicopter.

Look at who gets to take a helicopter to work!

Yout follow-up episode discussing how mental illness is used as an equally mysterious and terrifying witchcraft stand-in?

@ourfakehistory.bsky.social Finished your episode! And continue to be exhausted by society's tendency to use mental illness as the replacement for witchcraft. "Has this person done something incomprehensibly horrifying? Must be witchcraft, no wait, we're rationalists now, must be mental illness."

I guess when clothing took so long to make it did get kinda magic. . . .

@ourfakehistory.bsky.social Oooooh, are werewolves real? I'm very excited about the new episode! Can't wait to hear some good vampire stories (joking aside your mythology episodes are my favourites)

Oh I 100% think the public system as it is now WILL NOT get ppl on board for public mental health care. Not even patients. It's a mess for meeting people's needs as well as adequate pay. While I don't love the silo model of publicly funded private practices I think that's our best bet to start.

Meh, doctors REALLY didn't like the start of public health care but we got over it. And I wouldn't go back, even if I could bill more. It's so much easier just to have one entity to bill and not have my own billing department!

Hahahahahahaaaa. And like, no clearly because she just worked all weekend. But much better than if that were at the hospital as a patient.

Yeah I'll say "oh my wife's in surgery" to explain why she's not around, and then realize that sounds a lot more concerning than "she's doing surgery ".

Hopefully she'll get funded, given how much she does to make the clinics effective and efficient. It shouldn't cost more to work in the north than the south, but without her it's hard to even get people to show up!

We've got a contract for the basic psychiatry services now! The social worker I've been paying out of pocket for the past many years, who my new colleagues maybe don't want to pay for as they start their brand new practices less so.

So it was July of 2010 when I finally moved here and visited the river in summer that I realized they weren't just the feathered equivalent of genuine Saskatchewan seal skin.

Except I grew up in the age where Wikipedia was might tell you the truth, or someone might change it just for a laugh and you suddenly believe something ridiculous like a land locked province with yearly pelican visits. . . .

So I figured I'd read about it on Wikipedia. And THAT's where I learn about the Saskatoon pelicans who fly into the South Saskatchewan River every summer.

Then, 20 years later, I find out I'm moving to Saskatchewan for residency. At this point I was more confident on WHERE Saskatchewan was, and I'd fallen in love with the Meewasin Trail in the winter during residency interviews. But I knew nothing else about it.

(Okay my dad explained that to me because I was fuzzy, as an Ontarian child, on which province exactly Saskatchewan was).

My dad and I watched him all the time when I was a kid, and laughed at the absurdity of the land locked province having seals

So, does anyone remember Super Dave Osborne and his "genuines Saskatchewan seal skin" safety equipment? (I swear it relates to the below image).

You get to a certain point in parenting when you don't need to be offered much of anything in trade for your firstborn child.

"An avocado? An acorn? The promise of a slightly brief nap?"

This is also why life is so much less fun for the kids without my wife home. She was always playing that role.