Walking outside Père Lachaise cemetery where they list the names of the ~96,000 Parisians killed in WWI.

A sobering reminder that rekindling colonial ambitions, trashing multilateral institutions, and pushing European rearmament is playing with fire in a very scary way.

The plus side of Trump going after the country club of the Ivy League is we don't even have to pretend this is about anything other than destroying universities as such - regardless of their orientation towards DEI, student protest, antisemitism, etc.

Very excited that #Conservatorship won the 2024 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award from the Medical Sociology Section!

Would be thrilled to share my work at your colloquium / medical sociology class / garden party in the next year!

Very excited for this virtual joint presentation on Friday at 3:00 p.m. with @NeilMGong on "Fixing Public Psychiatric Care" through the Problem-Solving Sociology Workshop.

All our welcome, zoom link available here: sites.google.com/view/problem...

1) ERs are extraordinarily effective in stabilizing people, 2) many 5150s were actually unfounded and ERs are playing an important role in protecting peoples’ civil liberties, or 3) ERs are exercising an extremely strict screen in the conservatorship continuum.

So she convened local stakeholders, who investigated his case, put together a “dossier” explaining his situation, and used it to convince an ER to admit him. He was ultimately conserved. But how is it that private citizens play such a crucial role in the public MH system?

Kerry Morrison, head of the local Business Improvement District, realized no one had any plan for changing Serge’s situation. ERs would often send him back to Hollywood in an Uber a few hours after he was transported there.

The chapter begins with the story of Serge Obolensky (who gave me permission to use his name). Serge was homeless on the streets of Hollywood for twelve years. Far from being left alone, though, he was subjected to repeated holds and arrests.