Education
I’ve updated my Global Apology to reflect how I feel now, so let me share it with you here. I’d really love your feedback, so we can customize the Healing Medical Trauma class. I’ll post this to my Facebook page, so please respond there if you have anything you wish to share with me about how you’ve been hurt by the medical system- and what you feel you would need in order to begin to heal.
I’ll start with my personal apologies, most of which are aimed at people who knew me back when I was seeing 40 patients/day in a busy managed care practice. I’m so sorry to that kid I chewed out in the grocery store after I had been on call for 72 hours- the one who couldn’t get my bagel scanned for the life of him, which led me to spew, “If I did my job the way you did your job, there would be dead people everywhere.” It sucks that I demeaned that kid, and I feel awful and ashamed about it all these years later. I’m sure there were others- nurses, medical students, and my own family- who got that kind of insulting behavior from me when I was exhausted, burned out, and angry that nobody stood up for my right to care about my most basic needs, including me.
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Read MoreAfter 18 protests regarding SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) were counted by the province, B.C. is now interested in banning demonstrations from taking place near schools.
The new legislation would allow the provincial government to restrict protests they deem “aggressive” that occur within 20 meters of the building.
Those protesting within 20 meters can be ticketed or arrested by police if the school feels they disrupt classroom activities.
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Read MoreThese Canadian medical schools mandate the Covid-2019 ‘vaccine’, today in 2024, for health care students! It’s unclear what science supports this policy. Here’s the list: https://studentsagainstmandates.ca #StudentsAgainstMandates
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Read MoreScrabble has become double-sided, in an “inclusivity” drive to encourage players who find the game too “intimidating”.
The classic board will now be sold with a simpler version of the game printed on its underside which demands less knowledge of the dictionary.
The company has described the revamp as “a collaborative, faster-paced version of the iconic word game to make gameplay more a
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Read MoreIt’s way out of control, thanks to woke-inspired Board policies
Yesterday, the Toronto Star published an article about a parent, Mr. Anwar Knight, desperately seeking justice for his son, the victim of an assault at school. “The case raises questions of how school boards handle violent incidents, when police should be called and what information is disclosed to the families of the students involved.” No kidding.
At the PDSB, administrators have been directed never to call police without the go-ahead from the senior administration, presumably the Director of Education. Physical altercations including stabbings and severe beatings with weapons are common in Peel schools and are often not reported to police. The perpetrators are given a slap on the wrist and return to school where they continue their pattern of bullying and abuse.
When kids are injured, the Board launches an internal investigation and parents are not told what the outcome of that investigation was. They are simply told that appropriate action was taken. The student then returns to school, usually along with the perpetrator.
This article gives you a rare glimpse inside this broken system which prioritizes protecting the reputation of the school, school board, and administrators, along with the perpetrator of violence, over school safety and justice for victims.
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Read MoreDr. Robert Lufkin gives us a look inside his new book: “Lies I Taught in Medical School.” He blames America’s epidemic in chronic health disorders in part on what doctors learn in med school.
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Read MoreStudents submitted more than 22 million papers last year that were likely written by AI tools, according to new data published by Turnitin, a software service that checks papers for plagiarism.
Turnitin says its plagiarism detection tool found millions of papers that may include a significant amount of AI-generated content, according to a report by Wired.
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Read More“Problematic” is a euphemism for “things I would like to ban for narrow ideological reasons”, a Free Speech Union spokesman said
An “Inclusive Language Guide” produced by a taxpayer-funded foreign aid group has been slammed as “radical progressive dogma” after it labelled words like mother, father, girls and guys “problematic”.
The guide is published by Scotland’s International Development Alliance (Sida) – a charity which “inclusively champions global sustainable development in Scotland” and benefits from an annual grant from the Scottish Government.
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Read MoreThe English School Board of Montreal is pressing ahead with its legal challenge of Quebec’s secularism law, voting Wednesday night to ask the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn a recent decision that upheld the law known as Bill 21.
Under the law, school boards are forbidden from hiring teachers who wear hijabs or other religious symbols.
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Read MoreA prominent congress woman and former member of the House Science committee revealed this week that she doesn’t know what the Moon is. And somehow that’s not even the worst of it.
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