I am an Indigenous resident and my program director keeps assigning me to work with Native patients like I am some kind of cultural translator, but when I try to address the systemic issues they face she tells me to focus on medicine not politics.
More people experience this than they realize.
The person is simultaneously exploited for their cultural identity and silenced when they attempt to address the structural problems affecting their community.
“Where Are You with Healthcare equity and structural racism in medicine?”
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