Doug Blackie MPA FRRHHEd CMC 🏴🇪🇺
@dougblackie.bsky.social
Rural health strategist and management consultant. Specialist in rural health planning, policy and strategy. Working in Scotland and globally. Hill-walker, plane spotter and weather nerd.
(checks notes) ... Canada is a constitutional monarchy.
How to tell everyone you don't know much about Canadian history without directly telling everyone you don't know much about Canadian history
May 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
(checks notes) ... Canada is a constitutional monarchy.
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#ExitBrexit
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May 16, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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#ExitBrexit
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I've tallied up 15 miles so far this month for Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance's 100 Miles in May fundraiser. Want to help out and ensure lifesaving air ambulance services continue in Scotland - and I'll see if I can make 100 miles this month on my trusty bikes! www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...
100 Miles in May Challenge for Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance
Help Doug Blackie raise money to support Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance
www.justgiving.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I've tallied up 15 miles so far this month for Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance's 100 Miles in May fundraiser. Want to help out and ensure lifesaving air ambulance services continue in Scotland - and I'll see if I can make 100 miles this month on my trusty bikes! www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...
A medical clinic in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) is advertising on buses that they administer intravenous Ketamine to help people with depression. Given the perverse incentives of for-profit medicine, side effects and risks, is this really an alternative to therapy, CBT and other approaches?
April 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
A medical clinic in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) is advertising on buses that they administer intravenous Ketamine to help people with depression. Given the perverse incentives of for-profit medicine, side effects and risks, is this really an alternative to therapy, CBT and other approaches?
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“They won’t be able to make it to the toilet…they'll have to be wearing pads in the daytime if they work”
A 23-year-old in treatment for ketamine addiction talks to Victoria Derbyshire about the potential damage using the recreational drug can have on the bladder.
#Newsnight
A 23-year-old in treatment for ketamine addiction talks to Victoria Derbyshire about the potential damage using the recreational drug can have on the bladder.
#Newsnight
April 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
“They won’t be able to make it to the toilet…they'll have to be wearing pads in the daytime if they work”
A 23-year-old in treatment for ketamine addiction talks to Victoria Derbyshire about the potential damage using the recreational drug can have on the bladder.
#Newsnight
A 23-year-old in treatment for ketamine addiction talks to Victoria Derbyshire about the potential damage using the recreational drug can have on the bladder.
#Newsnight
"No one can change everything, but everyone can change something. If you choose to live a life with impact, it’s in your control to do so". -Seth Godin #leadership
April 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"No one can change everything, but everyone can change something. If you choose to live a life with impact, it’s in your control to do so". -Seth Godin #leadership
Absolutely buzzin’ after tonight’s sonic feast with @brokenchanter.bsky.social in Stirling. Scotland’s hardest working band. Smart songs, great melodies and so much talent. Great work tonight Dave, Charlotte, Bart and Martin! See you next time (I’ll that T-shirt eventually!)
April 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Absolutely buzzin’ after tonight’s sonic feast with @brokenchanter.bsky.social in Stirling. Scotland’s hardest working band. Smart songs, great melodies and so much talent. Great work tonight Dave, Charlotte, Bart and Martin! See you next time (I’ll that T-shirt eventually!)
"When in doubt, focus on your strategy. The tactics will follow". -Seth Godin @sethgodin.bsky.social #leadership #quotes
March 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"When in doubt, focus on your strategy. The tactics will follow". -Seth Godin @sethgodin.bsky.social #leadership #quotes
Neighbourhood watch...
February 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Neighbourhood watch...
“Though tyrants threat, though Lyons rage and rore
Defy them all, and feare not to win out”.
-Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross (1578-1640)
Timeless words. #Resist
Defy them all, and feare not to win out”.
-Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross (1578-1640)
Timeless words. #Resist
February 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“Though tyrants threat, though Lyons rage and rore
Defy them all, and feare not to win out”.
-Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross (1578-1640)
Timeless words. #Resist
Defy them all, and feare not to win out”.
-Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross (1578-1640)
Timeless words. #Resist
#Edinburgh. Four seasons in one hour…but still one of Europe’s great capitals.
February 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
#Edinburgh. Four seasons in one hour…but still one of Europe’s great capitals.
Back in the day, our team at the provincial health authority in BC proposed a flying team of critical care paramedics (c/w Specialist backup), Nurse Practitioners and nurses to help backfill #rural EDs during staffing shortages. Idea was shot down. Too radical, etc. But hey, maybe now's the time?
LETTER: Here's a flying solution for B.C.'s rural ER crisis www.peacearchnews.com/letters/lett... via @PeaceArchNews
LETTER: Here's a flying solution for B.C.'s rural ER crisis
Create helicopter-based ER teams for the Interior, this writer suggests
www.peacearchnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Back in the day, our team at the provincial health authority in BC proposed a flying team of critical care paramedics (c/w Specialist backup), Nurse Practitioners and nurses to help backfill #rural EDs during staffing shortages. Idea was shot down. Too radical, etc. But hey, maybe now's the time?
In the silence the ever-present past
and the ever-passing present
blend with the landscape
to make a flavoured immensity
an atmosphere so strong
that when I step outside
I feel it beat against my skin
and cluster headily round me
as I walk through it
as I breathe it
as I become it
-Mike Scott
and the ever-passing present
blend with the landscape
to make a flavoured immensity
an atmosphere so strong
that when I step outside
I feel it beat against my skin
and cluster headily round me
as I walk through it
as I breathe it
as I become it
-Mike Scott
February 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
In the silence the ever-present past
and the ever-passing present
blend with the landscape
to make a flavoured immensity
an atmosphere so strong
that when I step outside
I feel it beat against my skin
and cluster headily round me
as I walk through it
as I breathe it
as I become it
-Mike Scott
and the ever-passing present
blend with the landscape
to make a flavoured immensity
an atmosphere so strong
that when I step outside
I feel it beat against my skin
and cluster headily round me
as I walk through it
as I breathe it
as I become it
-Mike Scott
The austere beauty of the Dava Moor (just north of Grantown-on-Spey) on a fresh and sunny February morning...nothing better.
February 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The austere beauty of the Dava Moor (just north of Grantown-on-Spey) on a fresh and sunny February morning...nothing better.
January 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"The job of the teacher is to create the conditions for the student to explore their incompetence long enough to learn something useful" - Seth Godin. The best way for #leaders to overcome imposter syndrome is to be curious and accept mistakes will happen as you learn. #leadership
January 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
"The job of the teacher is to create the conditions for the student to explore their incompetence long enough to learn something useful" - Seth Godin. The best way for #leaders to overcome imposter syndrome is to be curious and accept mistakes will happen as you learn. #leadership
Exploring the Dava Moor and the abandoned Drumroy croft near Lochindorb. Imagining life as a hill farmer on the moors …
January 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Exploring the Dava Moor and the abandoned Drumroy croft near Lochindorb. Imagining life as a hill farmer on the moors …
Drive home today included a wee detour to the 127 year old Culloden-Nairn viaduct. At 29 arches it’s the longest masonry viaduct in #Scotland and used daily by ScotRail passenger services.
January 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Drive home today included a wee detour to the 127 year old Culloden-Nairn viaduct. At 29 arches it’s the longest masonry viaduct in #Scotland and used daily by ScotRail passenger services.
A stunning sunset (complete with sheep 🐑) over the #Highlands this evening… #Scotland
January 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A stunning sunset (complete with sheep 🐑) over the #Highlands this evening… #Scotland
Saturday morning chill…
December 7, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Saturday morning chill…
A bit of nature bathing this morning: up before the sunrise to visit with the Oystercatchers, Dunlins, Curlews, Jackdaws, Gulls and Pink Footed Geese at the @rspbscotland.bsky.social Culbin Sands Reserve. Just a chorus of birds and miles of white sand beach (sound up!). #Scotland
November 29, 2024 at 4:33 PM
A bit of nature bathing this morning: up before the sunrise to visit with the Oystercatchers, Dunlins, Curlews, Jackdaws, Gulls and Pink Footed Geese at the @rspbscotland.bsky.social Culbin Sands Reserve. Just a chorus of birds and miles of white sand beach (sound up!). #Scotland
Resist #BlackFriday. Support your local shops, independent booksellers, your neighbours and community all year. It's the least we can do.
November 29, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Resist #BlackFriday. Support your local shops, independent booksellers, your neighbours and community all year. It's the least we can do.
I’m often intrigued by the ‘half life’ of toxic #leadership and how long it takes an organization to recover once the dysfunction is rooted out. After the obligatory good-byes to the old regime, it becomes a huge challenge for the new team to rebuild #trust and #engagement.
November 23, 2024 at 4:05 PM
I’m often intrigued by the ‘half life’ of toxic #leadership and how long it takes an organization to recover once the dysfunction is rooted out. After the obligatory good-byes to the old regime, it becomes a huge challenge for the new team to rebuild #trust and #engagement.