Hospital services for Māori 'hostile and racist', review finds

Hospital services for Māori ‘hostile and racist’, review finds

Thursday, December 2nd, 2021

“To put it simply, there is no point solving someone’s transport barrier by giving them a taxi chit if the taxi drives them towards a racist health service,” Dr Emma Espiner writes.

It’s the line in her paper in Friday’s New Zealand Medical Journal a reviewer advised her to take out, because it didn’t sound “scholarly”.

But the former broadcaster, now a house officer at Middlemore Hospital, didn’t become a doctor to pontificate, she did so to make sure people understand why Māori have “persistently s….. outcomes across every imaginable health indicator”, and help to fix it. Read more

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