The Medicine Chest: A Physician's Journey Towards Reconciliation

by Dr. Jarol Boan

Book Overview

An examination of the barriers facing Indigenous people within the healthcare system from the perspective of an empathetic settler physician

After leaving her medical practice in Pennsylvania in 2011, Jarol Boan returned to her childhood home in Saskatchewan, Canada to practise medicine. There she found a healthcare system struggling with preventable chronic diseases and institutional racism. Shocked by the high rate of preventable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889779732
• ISBN13: 9780889779730
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: University of Regina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"