Health systems often discriminate against Indigenous patients: Philpott – CP

Source: The Canadian Press
Sep 28, 2017

By Kristy Kirkup

THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA _ Aboriginal physicians are praising Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott for acknowledging discrimination that unfolded at her Toronto-area practice prior to her political life _ an issue doctors say is widespread.

On Wednesday while speaking at a Public Policy Forum event in Ottawa focused on Indigenous health, Philpott said she had witnessed first-hand the different treatment a female patient who came to see her with a diagnosis of HIV.

“I watched in my clinic the way that my staff trea