Dan Johnson

Regarding patient safety: The report of the Health Professions Review Board following my complaint about my son Dexter's death is online as a public document.   canlii.org   Under Case Name tab at the top use 2025 BCHPRB 43 and the decision will be linked.

I'll adjust it and get it etched soon. I bought the plot in 2022, but decided to wait on interment of ashes until his name was finally mentioned by the news media (they never did, nothing) or we had an inquiry. The fatality inquiry is April 23. Braver than the news media.

Many friends have asked what I have decided on for a gravestone to sit with this remarkable person, and it is fair to let people comment on how it looks before it is cut and etched.

@cytirosi Yes. // "Shinra-Bansho (森羅万象) is a Japanese phrase meaning "all things in nature" or "all creation," representing the entirety of the universe and its interconnectedness."

@DanJohnsonAB The Japanese saying on the back of the gravestone is really beautiful.

Advice to move the lines closer together makes sense.

I should say we - family has kept up with drafts.

Well, a few asked

Sources of data used by Behnia Hooshyarkhah. All data sources are publicly available, and the code used in this analysis has been uploaded for public use, and is available on request.

Congratulations to Behnia Hooshyarkhah on publication of his research,  "Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Alpine Treeline Ecotone in Response to Climate Warming Across the Eastern Slopes of the Canadian Rocky Mountains" mdpi.com/2225-1154/14/3… #climate #biogeography @uLethbridge

@PaulRoundy1 @DrJamesEHansen True, modest acceleration and effect size are obscured by variations that are important in the short term and relatively less so later. Non-scientists want it black or white. However, the cited authors say "accelerating the pace of global warming...Accelerated warming may push.."

As far as next winter's condition goes, the El Niño signal is far more important. There is no real signal of accelerating surface warming, it's been basically constant since 1980. The illusion of acceleration comes from the unusual coincidence of ENSO events over the last 15 years.

El Nino strength is important, but the extraordinary, accelerating, warming of global sea surface temperatures is much more important. See Super El Nino? – mailchi.mp/caa/super-el-n… Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/super-el-nin…

@sheilatebra Billion dollar a day war over nothing

Anonymous I’m a school nurse. We have a rule. Kids without lunch money get a cold cheese sandwich. Nothing else. It’s policy. This boy came in one Wednesday. Sixth grader. Stomach pain he said. I’ve been doing this twenty years. I know real stomach pain and I know hunger. “When did you last eat?” He looked at the floor. “Yesterday lunch.” Sent him to the cafeteria with a note. Told them to give him a full hot meal. Pasta. Salad. Milk. The works. Cafeteria lady looked at my note. Looked at me. Gave him the tray without a word. He ate like he hadn’t seen food in days. Probably hadn’t. Came back to my office after. “Am I in trouble?” “For what?” “For eating.” “That’s what food is for.” Started keeping granola bars, peanut butter crackers, juice boxes in my bottom drawer. For kids who come in with headaches that are really hunger. Stomachaches that are really empty. I’m not supposed to. Technically against policy. Don’t care. Told my principal once. She looked at me for a long moment..... Opened her desk drawer. Showed me her stash. Crackers. Fruit snacks. Applesauce. “What drawer?” she said. We never spoke of it again. That sixth grader is in high school now. Came to find me last spring. “I just wanted you to know I’m okay. And that I remembered. I always will.” He volunteers at a food bank on weekends. Has since he was thirteen. Best granola bars I ever bought.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day. (Up next: St. Urho!)

@BadreNicolas Wishful thinking

"Antidepressants have been shown to reduce suicide attempts and completed suicides by 20–40%." Said: Not the evidence • 16% of US adults take antidepressants, yet suicide rates have increased. (Of course there are confounders.) • Some data suggest that in the short term, antidepressants are more likely to increase than decrease suicidal behaviors. While there are arguments for the selective use of antidepressants, preventing suicide is not one of them. Re the original post: returning to work and being involved in our lives is probably a better marker of behavioral improvement than many.

A Fatality Inquiry will be held April 13.

@PGtzsche1 @psychepi

Adverse drug events are a major killer but the US has no national strategy. American Society of Pharmacovigilance convenes national leaders for Medication Safety Policy Roundtable in Washington, D.C. on March 24. See press release: bit.ly/4cT8jdd. Members of the public may register to watch the livestream at: thirdcause.eventbrite.com

@learning_yohei Nice hiragana handwriting

I can speak Japanese, but it’s not because I’m Japanese. It’s because I’ve studied every day✍️ If you study every day, you can speak it too🗣️ Don’t give up. You can do it! 💪

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@moe_laboratory 左

Both are hiragana, sa But which one do you use?

@NickTaber Some called skepticism of lobotomy baseless anti-medicine, questioning a proven method.

We need to draw a hard distinction between critic of medicine and critic of psychiatry. Difference.

@dsowens17 I've taught data analysis at a university for over 20 years. People with no significant data experience lecture us with smug "the plural of anecdotes is not data", and "correlation is not causation", both of which naively miss the point.

Anyone who smugly repeats “the plural of anecdotes is not data” misunderstands how drug safety monitoring actually works. A large number of similar reports is observational data. In pharmacovigilance these patterns create safety signals that trigger further investigation. If you dismiss patient reports as “just anecdotes”, you eliminate the very signals that are supposed to prompt formal research into causality. This is scientifcally illiterate.

@Anon61152358473 A friend would be better, but if not, then law students should step up.

Is there a kind of person you can hire as a shield to go with you for all medical interactions when you get to the point that you just can't survive additional medical gaslighting of poorly understood illnesses anymore?