Yuggera, Warangoo and Wiradjuri doctor Kristopher Rallah-Baker says it’s important others ‘see they won’t be brought down if they complain about racism’
A GP has been banned from registering as a doctor for a year in Australia because of discriminatory behaviour toward an Indigenous doctor he accused of being a “fake Aboriginal” akin to “like a watered down bottle of Grange”. national law introduced last year to include a definition of cultural safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
“To obtain a PBS subsidy for simple modified release paracetamol a patient MUST be aboriginal. This is not means tested. So rich dudes like you … could get your Panadol Osteo for absolutely NO CHARGE under the CTG legislation but my struggling old age pensioners with their osteoarthritis have to buy it at full cost.”
The tribunal also considered the agreed facts that the GP has also failed to maintain a culturally safe practice when on the phone with an Ahpra investigator on 30 August 2022 the GP revealed that he had refused to write “CTG” on the script of a four-year-old whose father identified as Aboriginal.The GP’s legal representatives conceded his conduct was culturally unsafe, insulting and offensive. “However, he does not concede that that conduct was discriminatory on racial grounds ...
The findings noted a psychiatrist’s report dated 30 June 2023 which described the GP “as having a personality with cognitive rigidity and a difficulty in understanding others’ emotional responses to his actions”. Donna Burns, the CEO of the Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association, said one of the best ways to improve cultural safety for First Nations patients was to increase the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander doctors. “However, we know that the doctors are exposed to these behaviours of racism.”
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