DON'T: use urine toxicology testing to "fire" patients or make them feel untrustworthy DO: use it for #AprilFools gags on pre-med students

We spend Christmastime with the people we love most. Like we do on birthdays. My birthday happens to be Christmas Day. And this one - the first without my dad - is the worst one of my life. I feel like people on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside would understand. (Story/Thread)

This kind of thing never happens to me. 🫤

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Everyone in the global North is also crying today because at least 33 million people in Pakistan remain displaced by monsoon flooding related to anthropogenic climate change, right? Right?

You'll always remember where you were and what you were doing today when you heard. If you're a Pakistani kid, you were wading through sewage thinking how nice it would be to live till the weekend, let alone age 96.

My latest…on bereavement camps for kids. How a summer camp which helped grieving children who lost parents in 9/11 is now helping grieving children who lost a loved one to COVID. USA TODAY Immense thank you to those who shared their stories with me. usatoday.com/story/life/hum…

Excellent new op-ed by Maia Szalavitz. It’s so important to contextualize our drug crisis in economic and political histories. Read this, and everything else she writes. nytimes.com/2022/09/29/opi…

The compulsion to put a label on every difference: Diagnosis Use Disorder (DUD).

Hey Arif Virani, congratulations on the cabinet thing. Listen, would you read this? Then we'll discuss it at Thanksgiving dinner. K, thanks, h

🗓️ Don't miss today's debate-style event ft. arguments in favour & against transforming the CMOH into a more independent position. Two debating teams include: @FafardPatrick, Elaine Hyshka, Hakique Virani🟠, and Jared Wesley. Learn more➡️bit.ly/3sG92Jt UAlbertaSPH University of Alberta Faculty of Arts

Congratulations, Wab Kinew and congratulations Manitoba for choosing Reconciliation over conceal-iation. #SearchTheLandfill