Family Doc. Mother. Reader of fiction. Cyclist. Outdoor adventurer. Interested in lots of things including substance use, women’s health, social equity.
Vancouver
Joined June 2019
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Jennifer Leavitt retweeted
On #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay let us in healthcare spaces think deeply about what we can do to undo the history of systemic racism that keeps indigenous people from trusting healthcare institutions and providers. Educate yourself. Challenge your biases. Create safer spaces.
Jennifer Leavitt retweeted
"At what point should we have to beg and basically stake out a hospital to save our kids?" - Mom refused to leave ER until son admitted for #mentalhealth treatment, by @carolynraycbc cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scot… via @cbcnews #cdnhealth #CanadaWAITS
Notified today about the opportunity to share my thoughts on research priorities for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research @CIHR_IRSC. I definitely think that #primarycare and #familymedicine and #MAID need to be priorities. Share yours here letstalk-cihr.ca
Such an important and relevant topic. We need to be able to counsel our patients on the risks of e-cigarettes; and this is challenging the popular notion that vaping is a way to help people quit smoking. Anyone have more research/reading on this? @BCCSU?
B.C. health minister calls for federal action on vaping after study shows surge in teen use buff.ly/2WWsNf3
Jennifer Leavitt retweeted
In the face of a #climate emergency, courage is not spending public funds on oil & gas expansion. It is calling for evidence-based national incentives for solar plants, rooftop solar, wind and wave energy generators, geothermal solutions and hydroelectric power.
Jennifer Leavitt retweeted
Canada approved the transmountain pipeline shortly after declaring a climate emergency and ongoing genocide against MMIWG2S. They acknowledged the violence they enact against our lands and bodies and proceed anyways.
The violence is and always has been intentional.
Jennifer Leavitt retweeted
“In the 1990s Portugal had a major heroin problem... It took a radical approach and decriminalised all personal drug use... people using drugs fell dramatically, new HIV and Hepatitis C infections dropped & drug-related crime became much less of a problem” bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csz1…
