Jennifer Leavitt

Family Doc. Mother. Reader of fiction. Cyclist. Outdoor adventurer. Interested in lots of things including substance use, women’s health, social equity.

[Jennifer Leavitt @drjenl]

@GatewayMedic @JRossfamilymed @MrsMuurMD @vicmomdoc Any good resources for learning about a coaching v. rescuing mentality

[Ritika Goel @RitikaGoelTO]

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.

[André Picard @picardonhealth]

"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 https://t.co/wgSgZC2qcc via @cbcnews #cdnhealth #CanadaWAITS

[Jennifer Leavitt @drjenl]

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 https://t.co/zhSNJm0MJ1

[Jennifer Leavitt @drjenl]

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?

[CBC British Columbia @cbcnewsbc]

B.C. health minister calls for federal action on vaping after study shows surge in teen use https://t.co/UqpJumfBYk

[Jane Philpott @janephilpott]

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.

[Ta’Kaiya @salishdropout]

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 @drjenl]

@PettyHomoMD Completely agree. In British Columbia, funding covered for all patients considered high risk and the B.C. Centre for Excellence is working to increase the knowledge of the family docs in the province including decision and prescribing support by phone. https://t.co/iAaxeTCh76

[Laudan Aron @laudyaron]

“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” https://t.co/MgsIrgnLH1