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MEDIA INDIGENA 69

Added 2017-07-02 19:17:33 +0000 UTC

On this week's roundtable: is the state of Indigenous health care plagued by ill will?

Some might think so in Alberta, where a pair of provincial employees were punted for a racist text message about a First Nations school principal. Meanwhile, in Ottawa, the political battle over health care inequity for on-reserve kids continues as the feds announce they want parts of a human rights ruling quashed.

Joining us this week with their diagnoses of both situations are two physicians. Dr. Lisa Richardson is a clinician-educator with the University of Toronto's division of general internal medicine. Dr. Jason Pennington is a staff surgeon at Scarborough General Hospital and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto.

Together, they serve as co-Leads for Indigenous Health Education with the U of T’s Office of Indigenous Medical Education. Work that's just won them the 2017 Dr. Thomas Dignan Indigenous Health Award from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

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