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When family members avoid healthcare because of past discrimination

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.

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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.

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