Yout follow-up episode discussing how mental illness is used as an equally mysterious and terrifying witchcraft stand-in?

I guess when clothing took so long to make it did get kinda magic. . . .

Oh I 100% think the public system as it is now WILL NOT get ppl on board for public mental health care. Not even patients. It's a mess for meeting people's needs as well as adequate pay. While I don't love the silo model of publicly funded private practices I think that's our best bet to start.

Meh, doctors REALLY didn't like the start of public health care but we got over it. And I wouldn't go back, even if I could bill more. It's so much easier just to have one entity to bill and not have my own billing department!

Hahahahahahaaaa. And like, no clearly because she just worked all weekend. But much better than if that were at the hospital as a patient.

Yeah I'll say "oh my wife's in surgery" to explain why she's not around, and then realize that sounds a lot more concerning than "she's doing surgery ".

Hopefully she'll get funded, given how much she does to make the clinics effective and efficient. It shouldn't cost more to work in the north than the south, but without her it's hard to even get people to show up!

We've got a contract for the basic psychiatry services now! The social worker I've been paying out of pocket for the past many years, who my new colleagues maybe don't want to pay for as they start their brand new practices less so.

So it was July of 2010 when I finally moved here and visited the river in summer that I realized they weren't just the feathered equivalent of genuine Saskatchewan seal skin.

Except I grew up in the age where Wikipedia was might tell you the truth, or someone might change it just for a laugh and you suddenly believe something ridiculous like a land locked province with yearly pelican visits. . . .

So I figured I'd read about it on Wikipedia. And THAT's where I learn about the Saskatoon pelicans who fly into the South Saskatchewan River every summer.

Then, 20 years later, I find out I'm moving to Saskatchewan for residency. At this point I was more confident on WHERE Saskatchewan was, and I'd fallen in love with the Meewasin Trail in the winter during residency interviews. But I knew nothing else about it.

(Okay my dad explained that to me because I was fuzzy, as an Ontarian child, on which province exactly Saskatchewan was).

My dad and I watched him all the time when I was a kid, and laughed at the absurdity of the land locked province having seals