'Blatant racism, degradation, bullying': The challenges facing Indigenous doctors

"Economics and budgets are not my forte; however, what I would say is that whatever issue we are tackling we absolutely need to make sure it is appropriately funded," she said.

Dr Hirvanen says the psychology profession"hasn't always listened carefully enough to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people". "We all need to be doing better as professionals to ensure people have [the same] access to health and mental health care," Dr Hirvanen said. "You've got people asking, who's next?" That's the tragic predicament some Indigenous communities face as they endure what they're calling a suicide"crisis"."We rely heavily on referring our patients to tertiary centres such as Perth or to Broome, which is still six hours up the road from Port Hedland, to access the services they should be getting locally, ideally," Dr Hivanen said.

Half of the article consists of the opinions of a person who has a masters degree and is not any form of doctor. Did the other 398 actual Drs decline to talk to the ABC? Could have been an interesting and substantial article.

So proud of our professional indigenous Aussies 😄

Here's an idea if you have a problem with this country and it's citizens. You and the indigenous doctors can leave and never return.

Woohoo! About bloody time.

. Great suggestions - to train more indigenous doctors, allied health practitioners, occupational therapists, nurses, podiatrists and physiotherapists and to have healthcare professionals working alongside traditional healers to tap into 60,000 years of knowledge. .

How can people be racist to you when you look white ? These are the dregs that couldn’t make it on merit so ticked a box. My Nan was part Koori but I just thought she was part Italian, not that she talked about it or did anyone ask. A lot darker than this lot too.

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