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An opinion piece written for the @globeandmail I also included racism experienced in residency, in what would have been paragraph 4: Racism even affected my medical education. During my first year of medical residency at Victoria General Hospital, /1
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a nurse assaulted me as I entered a birthing room to deliver a baby. She identified the braid of hair hanging down my back and used it to forcibly prevent me from entering the delivery room. “You don’t belong in there“ she said in a harsh voice, making it clear she believed /2
there was no possibility I was the doctor because of my Indigeneity. I told her to stop interfering with my work as I was the physician on call and proceeded to deliver the baby. Immediately after, I reported the incident to the Residency Program Director. /3
