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so began the hospital’s healthy conversations series, which debuted last june with a series of live q&a videos and a panel discussion on racism in health care, with black toh staff members. all are still watchable today through the hospital’s website and facebook page.
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that reality can have the harshest of consequences. just ask the family of joyce echaquan, a 37-year-old atikamekw woman who died in a quebec hospital after filming staff ridiculing her, and according to testimony at a recent coroner’s inquest, not having her condition taken seriously.
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a lot harder to ignore is quantitative evidence, like that presented in an ottawa-led study published in may, showing indigenous patients had higher rates of post-surgical complications, such as infection and readmission to hospital, and were 30 per cent more likely to die after surgery.
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last summer, the canadian institute for health information published proposed standards for the collection of race-based and indigenous identity data in health care. they also flagged the potential to inflict harm in doing so, and suggested strategies to mitigate that risk, like rigorous training for those collecting the data and setting out a clear purpose for its collection and use.
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the 41-year-old psychotherapist was recovering in hospital earlier this year from a severe case of covid-19. hussain, who is muslim, was on her bed, hijab draped over her arms, in the act of prayer, when a doctor entered the room and told hussain she needed to check her.
as hussain detailed in an online article she penned afterwards, she didn’t respond — but the doctor, who later acknowledged to hussain she knew she was praying, said she didn’t have time to wait, put her stethoscope on hussain and started poking her. she proceeded to ask if hussain had had a bowel movement or diarrhea .
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