Status of Women committee  It's hard to know where to start, but one of the things that we did in our monthly conference call was get all the pediatric in-patient programs together and say, if the evidence is for outpatient family therapy for youths with severe eating disorders who are medically stable, th

Status of Women committee  If I could just add, when we talk about the fact that the vast majority of girls with eating disorders need outpatient treatment, and there's a lack of that, the problem is that the only available outpatient treatment is expensive private psychologists. That needs to be funded fo

Status of Women committee  To have free psychologists available to do the treatment for youth with eating disorders, for sure.

Status of Women committee  Meaning you want me to describe the Ontario model...?

Status of Women committee  It changed part way there. Can you answer that one?

Status of Women committee  It's the Ontario Ministry of Health.

Status of Women committee  But it's provincial.

Status of Women committee  That's a tough one, because the problem is that the doctors are all the sons and daughters of us who have grown up with the same attitudes as everybody else, so they also would see a slim, pretty girl and think she looked just fine at a BMI of 18, say. But maybe her healthy BMI i

Status of Women committee  They need training on set point theory, and the dangers of being below your healthy weight, and the importance of regular periods, and things like that, which they don't know about.

Status of Women committee  The model is just that all of the provincial programs are part of a network where we are in constant communication. We share data and information. We meet at least once a year to have regular conferences where we share data but we also try to make our programs consistent with eac

Status of Women committee  For teaching eating disorders.... Thank you.

Status of Women committee  It absolutely is.

Status of Women committee  If I can quickly add, they keep saying healthy weight is a BMI between 18.5 and 25, but they don't point out that not everybody can be healthy at a BMI of 18.5. It has to be the BMI that's healthy for your body, and for some of my patients it's a BMI of 23, which is perfectly hea

Status of Women committee  To that second point, absolutely, that's what was so awful about the fact that our team was closed to all referrals except for those patients who needed hospitalization for the last 20 months. We were so overwhelmed by how many of them there were that nobody was treating mild, mo

Status of Women committee  Okay. There is no medication that treats anorexia nervosa, nothing that we've discovered. As I said, there was one study at the Ottawa General Hospital in which there was an antipsychotic medication that was found to be helpful for some of the women who took it for treating anore