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By Marvin Ross with Files from Ted Ball
First, some background courtesty of Ted Ball:
In 2017, then federal Minister of Health Jane Philpott who understood the extent to which the Ontario Ministry for Hospitals had chronically underfunded mental health and addictions services in Ontario announced a “special” federal transfer payment of $1.9 billion over 20...
By Dr. David Laing Dawson
We humans have made some progress over the past 100+ years.
In no particular order here are some of the steps we’ve taken:
Women’s right to vote (starting with New Zealand) Women’s equality and reproductive rights Child Labour laws Slavery ended, civil rights movement, apartheid ended. Inclusiveness in society ...By Marvin Ross
I was not going to post today but then I couldn’t resist when I saw posts on Facebook promoting the old and discredited “research” claiming that doctors cannot diagnose schizophrenia. You will often hear anti-psychiatrist advocates claiming that schizophrenia does not exist because there is no test to prove it. And they will say that if you tell a shr...
By Dr. David Laing Dawson
Another article about assessing for suicide risk arrived in my psychiatric/medical feed today.
With small variations in the age and numbers and demographics over the past 30 years the suicide rate in Canada has remained relatively stable at 11.8 per 100,000 population per year. That’s about 12 per day in all of Canada. This is hap...
By Marvin Ross
It was expected and it could have been worse but after years of Jewish places of worship, community centres, businesses and individuals being targetted by bigots, a gunman shot up a synagogue of worshippers on the ho...