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Treating cancer pain in patients with Opioid Use Disorder: FREE Resources

Treating cancer pain in patients with Opioid Use Disorder: FREE Resources

by Marcus Greatheart | Feb 25, 2021 | Addiction Medicine, Barriers to Health Care, Blog, Equity Work, Medical Education | 0 comments

People who use drugs (PWUD) deserve same access to primary care as everyone else One of my biggest frustrations as a doctor are the “care-silos” patients get stuck in. A colleague who’d taken a gig at a methadone clinic told me she was reprimanded for prescribing...
Patients Avoid the Emergency Room for Good Reasons – Doctors Can Change That

Patients Avoid the Emergency Room for Good Reasons – Doctors Can Change That

by Marcus Greatheart | Dec 9, 2020 | Barriers to Health Care, Blog, Medical Education | 0 comments

Many of my patients living with addiction and homelessness who attend our downtown Vancouver health clinic refuse to go to the emergency room. Over the years I’ve grown somewhat accustomed to patients making the decision to not access the hospital despite my expressed...

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I acknowledge that my work takes place on the traditional, ancestral, unceded, and occupied territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.

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