Marcus Greatheart MD MSW
@drmarcusg.bsky.social
Family doctor + Social worker = 🦄
Street Medicine doc working alongside folks experiencing homelessness, addiction and mental illness. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
My hot takes on healthcare and social justice on TikTok @ same handle
Street Medicine doc working alongside folks experiencing homelessness, addiction and mental illness. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
My hot takes on healthcare and social justice on TikTok @ same handle
Do you know when your Driver’s License and Passport expire?
Check ‘em if you’re not sure. Like now.
Just watched while airport staff kindly but firmly did not allow a passenger to board their flight with a driver’s license that expired 6 months ago.
Check ‘em if you’re not sure. Like now.
Just watched while airport staff kindly but firmly did not allow a passenger to board their flight with a driver’s license that expired 6 months ago.
December 6, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Do you know when your Driver’s License and Passport expire?
Check ‘em if you’re not sure. Like now.
Just watched while airport staff kindly but firmly did not allow a passenger to board their flight with a driver’s license that expired 6 months ago.
Check ‘em if you’re not sure. Like now.
Just watched while airport staff kindly but firmly did not allow a passenger to board their flight with a driver’s license that expired 6 months ago.
Reposted by Marcus Greatheart MD MSW
I am tremendously grateful to community-based homecare and palliative care nurses and their dedication to helping my patients live the end of their lives with comfort and support.
I ❤️ community nurses.
#primarycare
#palliativecare
#endoflife
I ❤️ community nurses.
#primarycare
#palliativecare
#endoflife
a drawing of the word grateful in purple
Alt: a drawing of the word grateful in purple
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2024 at 6:09 PM
I am tremendously grateful to community-based homecare and palliative care nurses and their dedication to helping my patients live the end of their lives with comfort and support.
I ❤️ community nurses.
#primarycare
#palliativecare
#endoflife
I ❤️ community nurses.
#primarycare
#palliativecare
#endoflife
Reposted by Marcus Greatheart MD MSW
If you believe in
science-based supports and treatments
for hospitalized people who use drugs
please give this letter a read through and consider adding your name to it.
science-based supports and treatments
for hospitalized people who use drugs
please give this letter a read through and consider adding your name to it.
Sign the Statement of Support of Hospital Overdose Prevention Sites:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Support for Hospital OPS in B.C.
We unequivocally support the actions of Vancouver Island physicians, who moved to establish Overdose Prevention Sites (OPS) at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital and Royal Jubilee Hospital. We call on...
docs.google.com
November 23, 2024 at 1:35 AM
If you believe in
science-based supports and treatments
for hospitalized people who use drugs
please give this letter a read through and consider adding your name to it.
science-based supports and treatments
for hospitalized people who use drugs
please give this letter a read through and consider adding your name to it.
Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from work/school.
My name is Marcus and I was cautioned (by a social worker!!) not to social work my way through Med school (even though I am a social worker!!)
#medsky
My name is Marcus and I was cautioned (by a social worker!!) not to social work my way through Med school (even though I am a social worker!!)
#medsky
November 21, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from work/school.
My name is Marcus and I was cautioned (by a social worker!!) not to social work my way through Med school (even though I am a social worker!!)
#medsky
My name is Marcus and I was cautioned (by a social worker!!) not to social work my way through Med school (even though I am a social worker!!)
#medsky
Reposted by Marcus Greatheart MD MSW
What I now see in my head everytime #45 announces a new head of some essential government function.
(Thanks to @drmarcusg.bsky.social for planting that image)
Republican Party…. What have you done?
(Thanks to @drmarcusg.bsky.social for planting that image)
Republican Party…. What have you done?
krusty the clown is driving a car with a stop sign in the background .
ALT: krusty the clown is driving a car with a stop sign in the background .
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:07 PM
What I now see in my head everytime #45 announces a new head of some essential government function.
(Thanks to @drmarcusg.bsky.social for planting that image)
Republican Party…. What have you done?
(Thanks to @drmarcusg.bsky.social for planting that image)
Republican Party…. What have you done?
I always knew what kind of doctor I wanted to be.
I was 40 years old when I started medical school after a career in health ed & social work. That experience led me to caring for some of our most marginalized, neighbours: people experiencing homelessness, mental illness & addiction.
#medsky
I was 40 years old when I started medical school after a career in health ed & social work. That experience led me to caring for some of our most marginalized, neighbours: people experiencing homelessness, mental illness & addiction.
#medsky
November 20, 2024 at 9:27 PM
I always knew what kind of doctor I wanted to be.
I was 40 years old when I started medical school after a career in health ed & social work. That experience led me to caring for some of our most marginalized, neighbours: people experiencing homelessness, mental illness & addiction.
#medsky
I was 40 years old when I started medical school after a career in health ed & social work. That experience led me to caring for some of our most marginalized, neighbours: people experiencing homelessness, mental illness & addiction.
#medsky
Residential schools.
Indian Hospitals.
The 60s Scoop.
Will involuntary Addictions treatment be the next defining event in the colonization of Indigenous people?
#medsky #addictionsci
Indian Hospitals.
The 60s Scoop.
Will involuntary Addictions treatment be the next defining event in the colonization of Indigenous people?
#medsky #addictionsci
November 18, 2024 at 1:33 AM
Residential schools.
Indian Hospitals.
The 60s Scoop.
Will involuntary Addictions treatment be the next defining event in the colonization of Indigenous people?
#medsky #addictionsci
Indian Hospitals.
The 60s Scoop.
Will involuntary Addictions treatment be the next defining event in the colonization of Indigenous people?
#medsky #addictionsci
Reposted by Marcus Greatheart MD MSW
Interested in a super smart, super compassionate 🇨🇦 doctor’s take on treating folks with substance use disorder?
Or providing care to unhoused people
Or medical culture, in general?
FOLLOW MY BESTIE, @drmarcusg.bsky.social
(Now part of my 🇨🇦 #medsky starter pack)
Or providing care to unhoused people
Or medical culture, in general?
FOLLOW MY BESTIE, @drmarcusg.bsky.social
(Now part of my 🇨🇦 #medsky starter pack)
November 18, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Interested in a super smart, super compassionate 🇨🇦 doctor’s take on treating folks with substance use disorder?
Or providing care to unhoused people
Or medical culture, in general?
FOLLOW MY BESTIE, @drmarcusg.bsky.social
(Now part of my 🇨🇦 #medsky starter pack)
Or providing care to unhoused people
Or medical culture, in general?
FOLLOW MY BESTIE, @drmarcusg.bsky.social
(Now part of my 🇨🇦 #medsky starter pack)
Homelessness is an independent driver of chronic pain.
Caused by rough sleeping, injury & recurrent infection.
Exacerbated by victimization, trauma, stigma + subtherapeutic analgesia in healthcare.
No wonder folks develop substance use disorders.
If only I could prescribe housing.
Caused by rough sleeping, injury & recurrent infection.
Exacerbated by victimization, trauma, stigma + subtherapeutic analgesia in healthcare.
No wonder folks develop substance use disorders.
If only I could prescribe housing.
November 13, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Homelessness is an independent driver of chronic pain.
Caused by rough sleeping, injury & recurrent infection.
Exacerbated by victimization, trauma, stigma + subtherapeutic analgesia in healthcare.
No wonder folks develop substance use disorders.
If only I could prescribe housing.
Caused by rough sleeping, injury & recurrent infection.
Exacerbated by victimization, trauma, stigma + subtherapeutic analgesia in healthcare.
No wonder folks develop substance use disorders.
If only I could prescribe housing.