ihateusednames t1_ix78198 wrote
Reply to comment by JJisTheDarkOne in Indigenous people are less likely to survive the year after an ICU admission. 12 months after being admitted to intensive care, an Indigenous person is more likely to have died than a non-Indigenous person, according to Australian research. by MistWeaver80
It might not directly. I can't get too much into it without getting anecdotal / sifting through databases but even the best medical systems in the world discriminate, it's kind just something people do. Even if they addressed race, you could go to a hundred trainings to not discriminate against aboriginal people, unless the program had a wide scope you might see someone obviously poor walk into the ER in pain and be more inclined to mark them down as drug-seeking.
That doesn't even get into what r/candlesandfish brought up, you could consider not building enough capable hospitals in areas where aboriginals tend to live a form of discrimination.
Discrimination by race is craftier than a sign painted "No Aboriginals", very often it is subconscious, and even if there is a special health system designed to bridge the gap (happy they're trying at least) without infrastructure and funding to back it up it's a band-aid solution.
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