CBC Features Global Health Faculty: Hamilton Doctors Who Make House Calls to the Homeless, Addicts and Seniors
As reported by CBC, Christian Kraeker and Tim O’Shea – McMaster University doctors and MSc Global Health faculty – have started HamSmart (Hamilton Social Medicine Response Team), a program where they visit the elderly, the immobile, the addicted, the homeless and others who have fallen through the cracks of the health care system.
Hamilton’s “street doctors,” they spend the day visiting people wherever they are, whether at a shelter, a coffee shop or darkened apartments in Hamilton’s lower city.
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