CBC Unreserved: Healing 150 years of healthcare harm

Fiona Odlum — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:43:22 +0000

The CBC program “Unreserved” did a show about Indigenous health. Here is the podcast write up from their website:

Medical experiments, forced sterilization, incidents of racism that lead to patient deaths – these are just a few of the historic and ongoing harms against Indigenous people in hospitals across Canada. The Canadian Medical Association has acknowledged and apologized for it, but what comes next?

Here is the full conversation, including Vice Dean Indigenous Health, Social Justice and Anti-racism at Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Dr. Marcia Anderson.

The Globe and Mail: Canadian Medical Association apologizes for harms to Indigenous people

Fiona Odlum — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 19:09:45 +0000

The report found extensive profiling of Indigenous patients based on harmful stereotypes, including that they were often presumed to be intoxicated or were drug-seeking. This resulted in poor quality of care, including disparaging comments by health care workers, the minimization of concerns, rough treatment and medical mistakes, the report says.

University of Manitoba law professor Brenda Gunn, in her undated report, Ignored to Death, highlighted the case of Brian Sinclair, an Indigenous man who in 2008 died of complications from a treatable bladder infection while in the emergency department of Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre, where he had been ignored for 34 hours.

To read more, please visit The Globe and Mail.

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CBC Unreserved: Healing 150 years of healthcare harm

The Globe and Mail: Canadian Medical Association apologizes for harms to Indigenous people