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?
choomtown t1_ix7fufw wrote
Reply to 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
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?