New Zealand Medical Journal - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:03:27 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg New Zealand Medical Journal - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Hospital services for Maori 'hostile and racist', review finds https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/12/02/hospital-services-racist-maori-review-espiner/ Thu, 02 Dec 2021 06:54:48 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=143003 "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 Read more

Hospital services for Maori ‘hostile and racist', review finds... Read more]]> "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 Maori have "persistently s..... outcomes across every imaginable health indicator", and help to fix it. Read more

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