Some thoughts about @JillianRatti and @AmyTanMD and their imminent departures. I was offered a position at the U of C DFM in late 2018. I had a good job in Ottawa but I grew up in Calgary and thought it would be good to get back to family. As part of my due diligence, I learned..

about the province, the program and the people. I learned that AB was a leader in primary care. I learned that despite conservative tendencies, there was an @albertaNDP government and that efforts toward improving standards of living for ALL Albertans was a priority to them...

I learned about some of the great people doing work at the U of C. I followed some new people on Twitter to see who I would be working with. I talked to some people I already knew. @JillianRatti was a passionate defender of equal access to healthcare for all and someone I knew...

I could work with. @AmyTanMD was an old friend that I had worked with before. We talked about the position and the possibilities to do good things. We talked about how Alberta was changing and how even if the UCP were elected, it couldn't go back to the days of Klein...

which had driven me away twenty years earlier. I started July 2019. Fast forward to Sept 2020. Both of the people who inspired me to come are leaving. Morale among my colleagues is at an all time low. I am watching my patients on AISH have to beg to be afforded basic decency...

And I watch government sponsored Twitter trolls attack those who try to help. And I have never regretted a decision so much. I work with amazing people in an amazing program and feel like I am in a little utopia in the middle of a forest fire, knowing that my water gun...

is no match for what lies ahead. Albertans, we need to give our heads a shake. No one asked for this. Don't let @jkenney tell you it needs to be this way. It doesn't. Let him know. Tell him loudly and often and maybe he will take out the ear plugs.