Last week the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) became the latest organization to formally apologize to Indigenous Peoples for the “actions or inactions’ they played in the medical racism they coined as research. Actions, and sadly more disconcerting, the inactions and misconduct they engaged in for the past 157 years or since its founding in 1867. They apologized on behalf of physicians, residents, and medical students that “have harmed Indigenous Peoples.” And they apologized for the “ripple effects’ the actions caused on an innocent people. Their 47-page report includes cases of forced sterilizations, withholding nutrition from children to research the effects on the body, unethical research on Indigenous children, including depriving them of dental care and subjecting them to nutritional experiments. Doctors, dentists, the medical community treated Indigenous peoples as test…
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