Dr. Annette J. Browne, a professor in the School of Nursing, served as an expert witness in the 2021 Quebec Public Inquiry into the death of Ms. Joyce Echaquan, an Atikamekw woman who died on September 28, 2020, after posting a livestream video of hospital staff making racist comments about her instead of attending to her needs.<\/p>\n
As a member of the Sinclair Working Group, Dr. Browne is also familiar with the details of the Mr. Brian Sinclair inquest. In 2008, Mr. Sinclair was sent an emergency department for treatment via taxi. He remained in the waiting room until, after 34 hours of being ignored, he died of a treatable condition. In that instance, the presiding judge ruled (according to the Canadian Bar Association<\/a>) that \u201cissues of race, racism, poverty, disability, and substance abuse were beyond the mandate of the inquest.\u201d In other words, there would be no analysis of how systemic racism played a part in Mr. Sinclair\u2019s death.<\/p>\n In contrast, according to the CBC, the top recommendation made by coroner G\u00e9hane Kamel in the Quebec Public Inquiry is for the province to acknowledge that systemic racism exists and \u201cmake the commitment to contribute to its elimination.\u201d<\/p>\n Following the Quebec Public Inquiry, Dr. Browne and her colleagues Mary Jane Logan McCallum, Jos\u00e9e Lavoie, and Christa Big Canoe wrote a comparison of the two events. Read the full CBC opinion piece entitled \u201cMr. Brian Sinclair, Ms. Joyce Echaquan died years apart in hospitals. Only one of their inquests points to change<\/a>.\u201d In Ms. Joyce Echaquan\u2019s case, Quebec coroner G\u00e9hane Kamel sought to understand \u201chow systemic racism influences the assumptions and treatment provided by staff in relation to Ms. Echaquan\u2019s health needs.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr. Browne\u2019s full report to the Quebec Public Inquiry<\/a> is publicly available. She concludes that some progress is being made, but notes that although these two incidents made headlines around the world years apart from one another, they are not isolated events. For many people who identify as Indigenous, these reflect common, everyday experiences. Nurses must work to recognize and mitigate the ongoing effects of systemic racism in healthcare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As Expert Witness in the Ms. Joyce Echaquan Inquiry Dr. Annette J. Browne, a professor in the School of Nursing, served as an expert witness in the 2021 Quebec Public Inquiry into the death of Ms. Joyce Echaquan, an Atikamekw woman who died on September 28, 2020, after posting a livestream video of hospital staff making racist comments about her instead of attending to her needs. As a member of the Sinclair Working Group, Dr. Browne is also familiar with the details of the Mr. Brian Sinclair inquest. In 2008,…read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91297,"featured_media":1079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2021-fall-winter","et-bg-layout-dark","et-white-bg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}