What’s needed to close the Indigenous health-care gap

As a dental health professional, I’ve seen very little positive change to health care for First Nations over 40 years.

Delivery of care is structured for a health-care professional to see as many patients as possible, in which the 'symptom' becomes the priority, not the patient, writes Dr. Mary Jane McCallum.Photograph courtesy of Conor Lawless

Opinion

BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM

April 18, 2018

My perspectives herein apply primarily to First Nations, where I have spent the majority of my years as a dental and health-care provider, before being appointed to the Senate. As the history of access to health care is markedly different for the Métis and the Inuit, it would be unrepresentative to...

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