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And a cultural problem, per Dr Westrum’s BMJ study of information processing about safety in medicine and aviation, much of public health is Pathological or at best Bureaucratic.
Pathological Bureaucratic Generative Power oriented Rule oriented Performance oriented Low cooperation Modest cooperation High cooperation Messengers "shot" Messengers neglected Messengers trained Responsibilities shirked Narrow responsibilities Risks are shared Bridging discouraged Bridging tolerated Bridging encouraged Failure leads to scapegoating Failure leads to justice Failure leads to inquiry Novelty crushed Novelty leads to problems Novelty implemented Table 1: The Westrum organizational typology model: How organizations process information (Source: Ron Westrum, "A typology of organisation culture [Z); BMJ Quality & Safety 13, no 2 (2004), doi: 10.1136/qshc.2003.009522.)
November 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It was the 1991 NDP, per the NDP MoH in her CBC interview, that set the policies to block immigrant docs + stopping BC docs from family medicine.

incompetent @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social, having been in power SINCE 2017 - did nada, zip, zero until 2024 to begin to rectify **their own policy mess**
"It concluded that there was a mismatch between the health-care professionals that we needed and what we actually had," Cull said, speaking to CBC's On the Island. The report found that B.C. had more family doctors than it needed, and that the number of physicians provincewide had increased by more than 50 per cent since the 1970s. It also found they were seeing fewer patients than anywhere else in Canada. • Q&A Retiring family doctor worries about the future of his patients without changes to the job In order to reduce costs, it was recommended immigrant physicians not be allowed to practise in B.C2that international medical students be made to leave the province after graduation 3nd that domestic graduates train in fields where there were shortages — which, at the time, did not include family medicine.
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
BC public health’s RSV vaccination for pregnant women, good luck, it costs $300 🤷
BRITISH COLUMBIA HealthLinkBC C 8-1-1 The vaccine is given just before or during the RSV season, ideally between weeks 32 and the end of 36 weeks of pregnancy. For the best protection, it's important to get the vaccine at least two weeks before birth to allow time for the antibodies to reach your baby. The vaccine is not free (it costs about $300) and can be purchased at select pharmacies.
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
There’s some good evidence for creatine supplementation. And creatine production decreases with age. brandonluumd.substack.com/p/creatine-f...
Creatine Under Brain Stress: What the Research Shows Let's review the evidence from real-world studies where creatine was put to the test under conditions of energy stress: sleep deprivation and hypoxia (low oxygen). 1. McMorris et al., 2006 - 24 Hours of Sleep Deprivation In a 2006 study by McMorris and colleagues, healthy adults were divided into two groups. One group received a high dose of creatine— 20 grams per day for seven days—while the other group received a placebo. After the supplementation period, both groups were kept awake for 24 hours under conditions of intermittent, mild exercise designed to standardize energy expenditure among participants. A comprehensive battery of cognitive tests was administered throughout the night to assess working memory, reaction time, and overall mood and fatigue. Key Findings: • Reaction Time: Creatine users exhibited significantly less slowing of reaction time compared to the placebo group.
October 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
He’s immoral
THE MORAL TEST OF GOVERNMENT IS HOW IT TREATS THOSE WHO ARE IN THE DAWN OF LIFE, THE CHILDREN; THOSE WHO ARE IN THE TWILIGHT OF LIFE, THE AGED; AND THOSE IN THE SHADOWS OF LIFE, THE SICK, THE NEEDY AND THE HANDICAPPED. - HUBERT HUMPHREY -
October 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Bill Cassidy Never learns
August 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Yep. Same vibes
VOUGHT IS HERE FOR YOU!
August 22, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Zero evidence, still … 🦗🦗🦗
Air Canada Flight Attendant Salaries Canada V All years of experience V Base pay $36K-$63Kyr $59 K/yr average Additional pay $2K/yr Average $575 - $6K/yr Range About our data il Very High Confidence • ....... Last updated Jul 31, 2025 • 680 Salaries submitted The "Most Likely Range" reflects values within the 25th and 75th percentile of all pay data available for this role. Glassdoor salaries are powered by our
August 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Air Canada’s CEO says it’s not 🤣
1/3 of AC’s flight attendants have been hired in the last 5 years.
Avg is about $58k. At 3 years they make about $40k.

You sound like a great future AC FA … you’ll be rolling in $
• Half of Air Canada mainline flight attendants earned more than $54,000 in 2024, excluding incentive rewards, and health and pension benefits. The median is influenced by the fact that about one third of flights attendants have been hired in the past 5 years. At the top of the scale, which they reach within 10 years, flight attendants can make more than $70.000.
August 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Yep
August 13, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The Supreme Court is clear, health is a shared Federal & Provincial responsibility:

macleans.ca/opinion/trud...
= MACLEAN'S Subscribe Ottawa is good at setting standards. Look at the Canada Health Act-another Pierre Trudeau invention —which sets minimum national standards for health care. Without that federal law, the free health care enjoyed by every Canadian, regardless of their province, would not exist. We have national medicare only because the federal government set that standard. Why is this example important? Because it shows that in our Constitution and federal system, health is a shared legal responsibility, no more provincial than federal. But the federal government can make national rules, specifically minimum national standards for COVID-19 control that the provinces must play by. That would be a breakthrough, because Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Quebec all failed by unwisely doing less than the minimum to curb a second wave. Put a standard, legally binding "floor" under the provinces—a "backstop" of disease control which kicks in only when they fail— and Ottawa would save lives. Ottawa is good at setting standards. Look at the Canada Health Act—another Pierre Trudeau invention-which sets minimum national standards for health care. Without that federal law, the free health care enjoyed by every Canadian, regardless of their province, would not exist. We have national medicare only because the federal government set that standard. Why is this example important? Because it shows that in our Constitution and federal system, health is a shared legal responsibility, no more provincial than federal. “Health is subject to overlapping federal and provincial jurisdiction, and the provinces’ power to legislate in this field does not exclude Parliament’s authority to target conduct that constitutes a public health evil.” An evil, one supposes, like COVID-19.
August 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Gell-Mann Amnesia … except you know it 👍
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. - Michael Crichton [1]
August 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Yep
"No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
August 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A. Not good. B. Trudeau dropped the ball on Canadian Novavax production. Hundreds of $MILLIONS wasted, not a single COVID vaccine produced.
Two years after Trudeau promised a made-in-Canada COVID vaccine, the country is still waiting The National Research Council site hasn't produced a single vial of a COVID-19 vaccine John Paul Tasker • CBC News • Posted: Aug 20, 2022 1:00 AM PDT | Last Updated: August 20, 2022 Two years after Trudeau promised a made-in-Canada COVID vaccine, the country is still waiting
August 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Russ Vought gives Vought International vibes
Vought is here for you
July 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Dr Rhonda Patrick has a great podcast, here’s one on coffee’s benefits. TL;DR caffeinated (1-2 cups, then decaf) paper filtered coffee is the best, unfiltered still good but can increase cholesterol.
www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/cof...
foundmyfitness.com Effects on Aging & Longevity Key insights: • Coffee consumption slows biological aging by reducing epigenetic age. • Observational studies consistently show that regular coffee drinkers display younger epigenetic signatures compared to non-coffee drinkers. These benefits appear consistent across diverse populations and persist regardless of caffeine content and peak at around 3-4 cups per day. • Coffee and its constituents appear to affect several "hallmarks of aging" thereby increasing healthspan and lifespan. Research underscores coffee's impressive ability to slow biological aging. Biological age is distinct from chronological age; it reflects cellular and DNA health. Regular coffee consumption significantly lowers
July 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Site C sucks. Photo with BC Premier John Horgan
May 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
D.C., former vice president Humphrey spoke about the treatment of the weakest members of society as a reflection of a government: "The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."
March 30, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Many/most people in public health and the medical community could learn a lot from negative thinking.
My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of a lifetime spent visualizing defeat and figuring out how to prevent it. Like most astronauts, I'm pretty sure that I can deal with what life throws at me because I've thought about what to do if things go wrong, as well as right. That's the power of negative thinking. Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
January 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM