The Globe and Mail: Canadian Medical Association apologizes for harms to Indigenous people

The report found extensive profiling of Indigenous patients based on harmful stereotypes, including that they were often presumed to be intoxicated or were drug-seeking. This resulted in poor quality of care, including disparaging comments by health care workers, the minimization of concerns, rough treatment and medical mistakes, the report says.

University of Manitoba law professor Brenda Gunn, in her undated report, Ignored to Death, highlighted the case of Brian Sinclair, an Indigenous man who in 2008 died of complications from a treatable bladder infection while in the emergency department of Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre, where he had been ignored for 34 hours.

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