The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) has made a formal apology to Canada’s First Nations peoples for the role physicians played in a history marked by discrimination, substandard care, medical ...
The association says it is ‘deeply ashamed’ for treatment that included forced sterilization, harmful experimentation and ...
Dr. Michael Anderson clearly remembers a First Nations child flown into the Toronto pediatric ward where he was working 30 ...
Search of more than 150 years of the association’s archives turn up evidence of harms well-known to Indigenous people and ...
Indigenous patients faced abuse, experimental treatments and other harms in Canada’s health system, which still has ...
People who leave the hospital against medical advice are 10 times more likely to suffer an overdose compared to those who ...
The Canadian Medical Association has apologized for its role and the role of the medical profession in past and ongoing harms to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples in the health system.
Formal apology follows nearly four years of research the medical profession’s body conducted to uncover ’embedded systemic ...
Anasophie ValleeLocal Journalism Initiative ReporterThe TelegramWhen apologies are issued by organizations or governments for ...
People who initiate a premature or “before medically advised” (BMA) hospital discharge have a 10-fold increase in the risk of ...
The Canadian Medical Association announced it will publicly apologize for its role and the role of the medical profession in ...
People who initiate a premature or "before medically advised" (BMA) hospital discharge have a 10-fold increase in the risk of ...