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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/28/world/canada/canada-indigenous-health-care.html

When she eventually found her mother after frantically searching the emergency room, she was pale and unresponsive, and under the charge of a student nurse, according to Mr. Martin-Ménard.
He said that under Quebec health regulations, a nursing student shouldn’t have been responsible for an unstable patient.

Prejudices are so endemic in the health care system, said Alisha Tukkiapik, an Inuk social worker from Nunavik, a remote area in northern Quebec, that she tried to “pass for white” on trips to the doctor.

She recalled that when she was pregnant with her daughter, doctors would stereotype her as a drug or an alcohol abuser, asking her five times during the same visit if she had a problem with substance abuse. “When I reply ‘no,’ they then will ask me, ‘Are you sure. Not even a little bit?’”

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After Video of Abusive Nurse, Canada’s Indigenous Seek Health Overhaul

The abuse last year of an Indigenous woman in a Quebec hospital has prompted outrage and underlined the discrimination facing Canada’s Indigenous community.

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