Doug Weir

Practicing psychiatry in Toronto 40 years. Interested in mental health, health care and Ontario politics. Tweets are my own. Retweet does not mean endorsment

[Doug Weir @WeirDoug]

@picardonhealth Oh no you will be missed

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

.@Eleanor4Centre Eleanor Olszewski kicked off her campaign today. I was glad to greet Edmonton Centre volunteers, including former deputy prime minister of Canada, Hon. Anne McLellan, at the event.

@liberal_party is working hard to earn Alberta votes.

#CanadaStrong

[Dr. Atul Kapur @Kapur_AK]

Somehow all these privatization failures are excused away as "one-off" mistakes, instead of the flawed design they truly are.

[Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott]

I asked my wife how much she thinks the provincial government provides per kid per day to feed kids in schools.
Her guess: $2/kid/day.

Correct answer? $0.10 🤯

[Deonandan @deonandan]

Sharing this mostly so I can attract more accounts to block.

Ontario, 2020-24: 40 million jabs given, & only 23K adverse event reports. Only 1300 of those were "serious." Only 1 death suspected of being linked to COVID vaccination, and it was NOT mRNA.

https://t.co/xiU37pqJPN

[Mike Crawley @MikeCrawleyCBC]

SCOOP: The Ford government’s decision to shut down 10 supervised drug consumption sites goes against the advice of the province’s own experts.
Reviews recommended increasing funding for sites, not closing any. #onpoli https://t.co/Tgj9jRfDtI

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

My latest, on why a conservative should have no difficulty voting for Harris: of the two candidates, she's the least unconservative
https://t.co/RgkbHtVw5k

[André Picard @picardonhealth]

Calling supervised consumption sites ‘drug dens’ is not a solution to the #ToxicDrugCrisis or street disorder. It's inflammatory, unhelpful rhetoric, by @picardonhealth https://t.co/Nf8jxO10pA via @GlobeDebate #HarmReduction

[Dr. Atul Kapur @Kapur_AK]

Slightly surprised Gurney misses the symbolism and meaning behind the response to the booze map video. It's not that we literally want a map of available Family Docs. It's that we want a Premier who prioritizes fixing our healthcare system over prolonging a strike at LCBO.

[Jane Philpott @janephilpott]

With respect @PierrePoilievre, these are not "drug dens", they are health centres. They save lives. In fact the staff have attended to about 50,000 overdoses & medical emergencies since 2017, with no reported fatalities onsite. Thousands of women and men are alive because of SCS.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Oh god this is fatuous: blaming experts for the political mistakes of politicians. The tax reforms he cites didn’t fail because “politicians listened to experts.” They failed because they were too narrow. They eliminated some tax preferences but not others — allowing those affected to portray themselves as victims of selective treatment. And they did not use the revenues to cut rates — meaning they created only losers, and no winners. That’s poor policy, but it’s also dumb politics. As any expert could tell you.

There isn’t some single tax policy that economists would recommend, which either is or isn’t politically saleable. There are a range of sensible reforms, which can be combined in various ways. The job of practical politicians is to find the mix that can win public acceptance — and to win that acceptance.

To reach instead for the dumbest, easiest policy, because you’re too lazy to try to do the right thing and too cynical to care, is a choice. But own it. Dressing it up as a grand conflict between out of touch eggheads and practical “real world” types is condescending, self-serving and dishonest.

https://t.co/9o5RXMpYYq

[Dr. Atul Kapur @Kapur_AK]

Scottish & Cdn experts questioned Ontario’s decision to expand alcohol convenience especially while its hospitals & emergency rooms are unable to meet current demand of 320,000 alcohol-related hospital visits /yr—a number bound to ⬆️ with ⬆️ retail access
https://t.co/z9aDnesypa

[Doug Weir @WeirDoug]

must read

[André Picard @picardonhealth]

Some sensible advice on health spending, still ignored 50 years later. The Lalonde Report, which stressed investing in prevention not just more sickness care, is more relevant than ever, by ⁦@picardonhealth⁩ via GlobeDebate #sdoh https://t.co/xTT3LQ3Ly0

[Doug Weir @WeirDoug]

Leigh Revers: Medical school wokeness is threatening Canada's precarious Jenga tower of health care https://t.co/lwDL2XACoi via @nationalpost

[Doug Weir @WeirDoug]

Anthony Housefather can best represent Canadian Jews by walking away from the Liberals https://t.co/NPjNiXJYYj

[Doug Weir @WeirDoug]

interesting that in Denmark there are 42.25 physicians per 10,000 population vs Canada 24.43 and in Denmark GPS 7.98 per 10,000 population vs Canada 12.14
https://t.co/LQLTgnZJpq

[Doug Weir @WeirDoug]

everyone interested in improving primary care in Canada should read this thread

[Doug Weir @WeirDoug]

everyone interested in improving primary care in Canada should read this thread

[Tara Kiran @tara_kiran]

How is that >98% of Danes have a GP? Part of the answer lies in their approach to training physicians.

Here's a summary of some of what I've learned on my trip to Denmark 🇩🇰 🧵

(the photo here is a wall of some of the 170+ residents trained at the practice I visited)

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

Welcome to Gaza Graduation (The Game Show)!

Where students pay $85K+ a year to unwittingly become indoctrinated into Jew Hate.

🎥 zach.sage on IG

[The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome @TheMossadIL]

Let's see how much you know about that conflict you threw your career away for that you first heard about 3 weeks ago.

[Perry Brodkin @MareadelPortill]

@WeirDoug CONCLUSION Paragraph 299. Item 3.