“These types of comments demonstrate a fundamental lack of knowledge about what race is, what racism is like, what power is and what privilege is.'
Two University of Calgary researchers weren’t surprised when their survey of Alberta doctors showed biases against Indigenous patients, but they were shocked by some of the comments.
“I think that that’s really, really worrisome — the social determinants of health are one of the most important factors in our patients’ lives and how they heal.”One of the survey respondents — a white doctor — said he felt racism from Indigenous people, not the other way around.“The most common sort of racism I have seen is an Indigenous person being racist in words and actions against white people.
“We have so much evidence of the way Indigenous people are treated in the health-care system through the tragic deaths of people like Joyce Echaquan and Brian Sinclair,” said Roach, referring to the treatment of the Indigenous patients in Quebec and Manitoba that created significant public outcry.The survey, which had 375 respondents out of about 12,000 that it was sent to, used a “feeling thermometer” approach in two questions that asked participants to indicate their agreement.
Ruzycki said the response to a demographic question in the survey was about 10 per cent, or just under 1,100 doctors.“The first anti-Indigenous bias question, that number dropped off to 375. When we asked a really uncomfortable, challenging question, people opted out.”“Where we fall down is what happens after the reporting,” said Roach. “There needs to be more reporting structures with accountability.
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