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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
According to her family, she was in there a month earlier and received similar treatment.
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Yes, which is why she was recording in the first place.
And she's not the only Indigenous person who has made the same claims.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montr...quan-1.5745150
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Over six months, he said he went five times and each time was told nothing was wrong then given pain medication and told to rest. He was often asked, he recalled, if he was on drugs.
At one point, Flamand said, he saw a white man at the hospital for his own back problem being treated with a degree of respect he had not been given.
"It showed me clearly that there was racism there," he said Wednesday.
After half a year of hardly being able to stand up, let alone walk, Flamand finally went to the hospital in Trois-Rivieres where he was taken in for emergency surgery for a herniated disc.
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Part of the problem is nurses and other medical staff assuming Indigenous are on drugs, criminals, prostitutes, and the like (not that it should matter) and give them less attention or in some cases hinder them from getting the proper treatment. It's been documented lots that minorities are less likely to be prescribed opioids than their white counterparts.