First Nations: Second-Class Health Care
As the inquest into the death of Brian Sinclair begins again in Wininipeg White Coat Black Art looks at whether First Nations patients sometimes get second-class health care. Sinclair, 45 was a homeless man and a double-amputee who died at the Health Sciences Centre of a treatable bladder infection after waiting 34 hours for care. He was also aboriginal. Dr. Brian Goldman...
As the inquest into the death of Brian Sinclair begins again in Wininipeg White Coat Black Art looks at whether First Nations patients sometimes get second-class health care.
Sinclair, 45 was a homeless man and a double-amputee who died at the Health Sciences Centre of a treatable bladder infection after waiting 34 hours for care. He was also aboriginal.
Dr. Brian Goldman talks to a First Nations woman in Toronto who had to visit three ERs during the course of a weekend to get admitted for a serious stroke.
He also talks to two young up-and-coming aboriginal MDs who talk about what it's like to fight racism from the inside.
Dr. Alika Lafontaine vice president of the Indigenous Physicans Association of Canada, reveals what it really means when you write "aboriginal" on a chart.
Dr. Marcia Anderson DeCouteau, the past-president, reveals how she had to save her own father from a health-care system that saw him as "just another drunk Indian."
Dr. Alika Lafontaine vice president of the Indigenous Physicans Association of Canada, reveals what it really means when you write "aboriginal" on a chart.
Dr. Marcia Anderson DeCouteau, the past-president, reveals how she had to save her own father from a health-care system that saw him as "just another drunk Indian."