#Illness

Drug courts are not: - an "alternative to incarceration;" - a substitute for all drug decriminalization; - a panacea; or- a "public health" approach. I was a drug court representative
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COVID-19 pandemic day #251: Hello, from the offices of @VCHhealthcare in beautiful Vancouver! Dozens of public health nurses, environmental health officers, social workers, and physicians, here tracing contacts and taking
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1) The second wave is now accelerating in Montreal at a much faster rate than in most regions across Quebec as the city posted a record 748 #COVID19 cases. Outbreaks
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Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm's brother who argued in this 2019 essay that his life should end at 75 because life after that age is longer productive and may involve disability, is
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Breaking: Moderna's vaccine trial is live in the New England Journal of Medicine.Frontline insta-analysis by @Brief_19's @macacharya and me is here: https://brief19.com/2020/12/30/moderna-vaccine-phase-iii-trial-results-released-in-
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So here’s the latest from our #COVID detention world: in early April (seems like light years ago now), we filed a lawsuit in Virginia seeking release of 9 medically vulnerable
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Neverending Story just starting on BBC1. Inexplicably-heartbreaking 80s kid film fantasy fun. Cracking theme song, too. It opens with a forlorn conversation about a dead mum. That's how little it
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This is an interesting #LongCOVID theory - that there is persistent brainstem dysfunction (likely in tangent with other immune issues like immune dysregulation, reactivation of other viruses, onset of autoimmune
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coming from someone who struggled with anorexia, bulimia, food related OCD & BED since puberty: YES. and i’ll elaborate on why you *really shouldn’t* cw/tw the mere mention of food,
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Volume 60 of Bleach: Everything But The Rain. In this one volume alone, you learn more about Ichigo and his past than u do in the other 59. Loose ends
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Am set to live tweet till 4pm from an online #MHLivedExperience forum, hosted by @MentalHealthVic @vichealthassoc with input from @VMIAC @tandemcarers & many others. Great if you can tune in.
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The killing of a traitor Narendranath Goswami & subsequent martyrdom of #SatyendranathBosu.Remembering a freedom fighter on his janma divas who sacrificed his life for Aurobindo Ghose.Bosu was born on this
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Why have primary health care services failed to win the trust of people as curative care centres? We must distinguish people’s need for medical care (curative) and public health services
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Facebook post from a doctor at a university hospital. She works in the Covid unit. She wrote this as a way to express her feelings about school reopenings, based on
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Stop COVID-19 stigma A thread I’m recovering from COVID-19. Besides being unable to taste/smell & lingering fatigue, I am thankfully doing ok.What’s not ok is how stigmatized this
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Just got off the phone with one of Lisa Montgomery’s attorneys. She is bracing for a long day of legal proceedings. Lisa is already at Terre Haute and the prison
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