How those working within and outside of Sask. s health-care system are fighting systemic racism Practitioners say racism and discrimination persist within Saskatchewan health care, shaping the care patients receive and the personal health of those who provide it.
Author of the article: Zak Vescera
Publishing date: Jun 03, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 10 minute read • Most Canadians think of their health care system as being free and equal. But Saskatchewan practitioners say racism and discrimination persist within, shaping the care patients receive and the personal health of the people who provide it. Photo by Saskatoon StarPhoenix /Saskatoon StarPhoenix
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Dr. Veronica McKinney was working at a clinic in west Saskatoon when a man in his 40s entered asking for pain medication. He seemed brusque, uninterested in talking, and McKinney sensed something was wrong. She asked to examine the man to find the source of his pain. As she began, he started
Schatz will also be bringing back his fiancée, Jenelle, who will be teaching at St. Augustine. Jenelle already has teaching experience in Humboldt, previously teaching at St. Dominic part time. “She really enjoyed the job in town as well and so that was a big part in the decision.” After graduating from the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine and completing his residency, Schatz spent the last three years working with the Saskatchewan Medical Association’s Rural Relief Program. As a physician with the program, Schatz provided medical support for staff in rural communities and, in the last six months especially, northern communities like Buffalo Narrows, Île-à-la-Crosse, Beauval, and Dylan.
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As Saskatchewan grapples with the more transmissible U.K. variant of the coronavirus, an epidemiologist is worried to see an even scarier form right on Saskatchewan’s frontiers.
Hundreds of cases of P1 variant, first detected in Brazil, have turned up in British Columbia, and the same variant has also affected Alberta and Manitoba. No cases have yet been identified in Saskatchewan, but Dr. Nazeem Muhajarine, a professor of community health and epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Medicine, thinks the province needs to do more to keep it that way.
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Since that time he had his two years of family medicine residency training in Winnipeg in the bilingual program, which he said is rural family medicine program. He will start his local tenure in September. Cormier will establish his practice with the South East Medical Group, collaboratively with Dr. Edward Krickan, who arrived in Estevan in July 2017, and Dr. Neal Cabigon, who came to Estevan last summer. Cormier’s first experience with Estevan came between his second and third years of medical school, when he came to the city and spent about six weeks working at St. Joseph’s. He returned for additional stints in each of his third and fourth years, as part of his rural family medicine block, and really enjoyed it.