PGY2 @UofTPsych | MD @MacHealthSci | He/Him 🏳️🌈🦄 | Curious and developing my interests | Lifelong (un)learner
Hamilton, Ontario
Joined September 2014
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Peter Youssef retweeted
Grateful to @OliviaBowden__ and the @TorontoStar for covering our new paper in @CMAJ_Open today. Students in mental health crisis are deserving of hope and help, and that includes flexible, dignified, and humane transfer policies. (1/6)
Police, handcuffs routinely involved for Ontario university students with mental health crisis: Study dlvr.it/SSYvhc
Peter Youssef retweeted
Psychiatry: poverty, child maltx, benzos, shame, lack of appreciation for complexity and for the human spirit
Peter Youssef retweeted
There are understandable reasons why psychiatry is scrutinized way more than other medical specialties: it, eg, exercises social control over the lives of individuals under its care to a degree exercised by no other specialty; it is subject to more value disagreements... (/1)
Peter Youssef retweeted
Agree totally. Complicating a biological story with social and structural dimensions isn’t denying the biological - it’s recognizing the complexity of how mental disability materializes
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It's infuriating to see the head of psychiatry at St. Michael's @UnityHealthTO publicly belittle his younger, often female, often racialized colleagues for providing care that rightly addresses the social determinants of mental health.
Peter Youssef retweeted
For all the doctors saying "I don't care about pronouns," or "it's too hard to remember," here are the facts:
"...for transgender youth, using their chosen name in school, work, home, and with friends... decreased suicide attempts by 65%."
So, you better fucking care.
Peter Youssef retweeted
Some people can’t see racism in health care. A Cree teen male went to the ER bc he was unwell. He sat, became delirious & security was called as they felt he was intoxicated. No vital signs were taken. He died 4ish hours later due to septicemia. I reported this. Nothing happened.
Peter Youssef retweeted
The architectural drawings from many Indian residential schools included cemeteries.
Peter Youssef retweeted
We call on the Prime Minister to lower the flags of this country and declare a national day of mourning. A mass grave containing 250 children was discovered on the site of a former residential school in Kamloops British Columbia!
For these Children and the many others! – at New Credit (Part) 40A, Ontario
Peter Youssef retweeted
If we are going to make Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) more accessible for Canadians, we have a duty & moral obligation to make housing, harm reduction services, mental health & income supports, more accessible too.
Peter Youssef retweeted
Med school is odd because I feel like I am incentivized to view people’s suffering as a “learning opportunity”
Peter Youssef retweeted
Being unhoused, or poor, or addicted is not a moral failing. It is our moral failing that we do not see the ways that trauma and systemic oppression contribute to these states. Everyone deserves a roof, a full belly and a community. 4/4
Peter Youssef retweeted
If you ask yourself "Do I need an interpreter for this patient interaction?", the answer is already yes. #Normalize #Utilizing #Translation #Services
Peter Youssef retweeted
RE: #MedBikini -- let's not forget the disproportionate impact of antiquated notions of "professionalism" on racialized women with curly hair & dark skin, far beyond the posting of bikini pics. Just being myself should not have to be seen as subversive/a political statement. /1
Peter Youssef retweeted
Ummmm I don't think you can say you give a crap about public safety while you literally cover up the crisis of police brutality and anti-blackness in @cityofhamilton...bit of a paradox in my books.
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