My latest for CBC Nova Scotia on how docs get paid. Bottom line? We need to decide together what good primary care looks like so we know what models might work.

Thanks Information Morning for the chance to speak with you this morning.

#healthcare #nspoli

'language usually paired with photos of women, often attractive white women, spinning in fields or on the beach with their hands in the air' including (but not limited to
Soul doula
Authentic self
Belief infusion

I feel seen. Thank you Suzanne Rent

Someone recently suggested to me that ideas about holistic care and healing were flaky. So I spoke about biomedicine’s undermining of relational ontologies. epistemic racism and reductionism—at which point the tone of the conversation seemed to shift.

'Because we know that #relationships built over time matter, we should encourage relationship-based #medicine ' Such an important piece by Aruna Dhara on prioritizing #primarycare in #NovaScotia CBC Nova Scotia bit.ly/2VmUttS

Hey Twitterverse - I had the great privilege of sharing some thoughts about the value of primary care and what it might look like for different parts of the community.

Bottom line: invest in relationships because they matter.

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I have...questions about what educators are teaching medical students re: their duty to provide care, even when they fundamentally disagree with the choices their patients make. Hot tip: the answer isn't this.

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Affordable housing defined by CMHC itself costs not more than 30% of a household’s gross income, not 30% of the median income in the area. #housingforall #NSpoli #endpoverty

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#ISupportDrGoel

She is an inspiration - challenging our profession to do better and stand by our highest ideals.

I am a better physician because of her work.

Dr. Ritika Goel has my support. I have learned from and admired her principled and thoughtful approach for many years, including with respect to to rights of people to live in dignity and without fear. #ISupportDrGoel

'Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, addiction, mental illness & illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear frm public view when the human beings contending w. them are relegated 2 cages.' - Angela Davis

.roxane gay with some excellent parental ingenuity. This is 100% a thing my parents have done.

Read this thread 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

This is colonized structural violence.
In health care it is the water we swim in, but we need to push back against it every chance we get.

Racism doesn't need racists.

It just needs us to keep swimming without seeing.

Everyone who works in a hospital should reflect on this thread. Folks do the best with what they have, and sometimes we're the best choice in a bad system.

I confess to frustration - but that should be directed at the system that brought her here.

This exactly. This is not a time to congratulate ourselves on supporting Noroh. Let's examine the deeply unjust system that put her in this position.

But FWIW, I was also glad she's safe(r) for now.

Whatever you think about whether any jurisdiction 'should shut down', @NishaOttawa is right: education is a human right.

This.

Since the pandemic, violence against women and girls has intensified. This year more than ever, let's keep the conversation around gender-based violence going.

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This one gets me right in the feels. I can't remember the last weekend I didn't do some work related thing.

But then I remember there are plenty of folks who worry if they have 2 days off because they need those working hours to pay the rent.