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Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD Profile picture
Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD
@AlikaMD
Immediate past-President @cma_docs. Podcast host, The Healthcare Divide. 🐥s re: tech, equity, culture. Folks who fix things are the future.
Aug 23, 2021 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Today I was ratified as @CMA_Docs President-Elect, the beginning of three years supporting and leading the national organization that unifies Canadian physicians.

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/1 I’m the first Indigenous and Pacific Islander in this position. @CashinMD is the first Indigenous Board member this year.

I’ve been asked many times about what being in this position means in the context of being Indigenous. Recent #CMAagm has consolidated a few thoughts.

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Feb 6, 2021 • 17 tweets • 8 min read
I've been reading around #gaslighting lately. For those new to the term, it's a type of manipulation where seeds of doubt are planted within a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment.
1/17 In 2018, @InsideCdnNurse invited me to write about reconciliation. Looking back with my current perspective, I've realized that what I actually wrote about were the effects of #gaslighting on the stories passed on to me by my father and grandparents.

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Dec 7, 2020 • 27 tweets • 9 min read
1. Agree @kimkellymd, equity, diversity and inclusion cannot be achieved without deliberate sponsorship and mentorship. Although I can’t speak to the experience of identifying as a woman, I can speak to my own experience as an Indigenous physician. Beginning of a thread. 2. My ancestry is Anishinaabe, Cree, Metis and Polynesian. My extended family survived residential school and the sixties scoop. I was the first person in my family to consider medicine as a career.
Jul 4, 2020 • 26 tweets • 6 min read
1/ Beginning of a long thread.

Yesterday a CBC report noted that myself and a surgical colleague reported the hanging of a noose in June 2016. Thank you to everyone who has sent me supportive messages and phone calls since the story was published. It means a lot. 2/ I have spoken out about racism, discrimination and bias for almost 20 years. There are many within AHS that have championed this message, including our CEO who amplified this message (and me) both when she was over PPIH and in her current role.

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