Background

Background

Background

Transformative and lasting reconciliation with Indigenous peoples requires action from all health care professionals and providers in British Columbia. We are obliged to act on the deep injustices of colonialism and anti-Indigenous racism. The Joint Collaborative Committees (JCCs) have pledged to walk with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples as we support the need to reframe how physicians and their teams deliver care for Indigenous people.

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From the time we start our medical training to the moment we embark on our careers as physicians, we are taught about the importance of empathy in patient care. In my experience, this teaching often comes with the assumption that all medical trainees are healthy and without chronic disease. The teaching of empathy is often under the pretense that no medical student, resident, or physician could possibly know what it is like to be a patient.

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