choomtown t1_ix7fufw wrote
most indigenous people i know have had terrible experiences and treatment from healthcare providers - often in the form of their pain not being believed, being distrusted, being assumed to be there to be lying to get medicine, and being treated like test subjects or animals rather than humans. I know plenty who straight up refuse to go because their health problems are easier to deal with than the condescending and sometimes prison like treatment they receive.
add that to affordability, isolation, as very, very significant factors. if you were treated like a bug or thief each time you went to a doctor, would you keep going?
swiftcleaner t1_ixfj2yw wrote
I’m a bit surprised by the amount of people who deny that there is a racial prejudice going on. It’s subtle, like when your doctor immediately denies your blatant pain, but those tiny things add up, and it becomes generational, where indigenous people don’t trust their doctors. I’m sure it’s way more factors obviously, but it is definitely one.
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