My Indigenous grandfather died at home because he refused to go back to the hospital after they made him wait eight hours in the ER the week before, and I cannot stop thinking this is my fault for not advocating harder.
More people experience this than they realize.
You are carrying guilt for a death that resulted from systemic racism in healthcare, while grieving both your grandfather and the trust in medicine that colonization destroyed.
“Where Are You with Healthcare equity and structural racism in medicine?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.