Angelina Jolie Says Racial Disparity in Health care Has ‘Endangered’ Her Children of Color

Angelina Jolie is addressing the health inequalities she sees when it comes to racing.

The actor and humanitarian published an op-ed for the American Journal of Nursing on July 5, in which she touched on the new technology that detects bruises on darker skin colors when it comes to survivors of domestic violence. Jolie, 48, began by writing how many medical research, imagery and training centers focus on white skin and as a result medical professionals “often miss injuries depending on race and ethnicity.”

“As the mother of children of multiple races, I have seen my children of color be

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Saturday’s letters: No tangible improvements in health care

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I noted in a recent edition of the Edmonton Journal that our minister of Health is “pleased by the progress made under Dr. Cowell’s leadership in the immediate areas of action he was tasked with. We already have tangible results that Albertans can see.”

In the six months sinceDr. Cowell has been in charge, my family physician has left his practice and there are no doctors in our community who are accepting new patients. I have spent considerable effort trying to find a family physician without
success. This past week, I took a person who was experiencing a

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Another 3,400 PEI patients lost primary care, with family doctors saying he is ‘burnt out’

A Prince Edward Island family doctor who scaled back his 13-year-old practice earlier this month has now decided to close it up completely.

Dr. Paul Corney said in a letter to his remaining 3,400 patients that he would be “winding down” his practice in Charlottetown before closing it on Sept. 15, 2023.

“As of now, there is no physician or nurse practitioner in place to take over your care. Health PEI is working hard to find solutions for this,” he wrote.

For the time being, he said, his patients would be able to sign up for free online care from

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Hospital backlogs in pediatric care could affect children’s health for the rest of their lives

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A surgery is performed in the operating room at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children on Nov. 30, 2022.Chris Young/The Canadian Press

Two-thirds of pediatric patients in need of surgery at two of Ontario’s largest children’s hospitals are being forced to wait beyond the recommended window as a result of backlogs and inadequate resources, putting them at risk for lifelong complications and setbacks.

At Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, the surgical wait list soared to last 6,509 weeks, the longest it has ever been. Sixty-seven per cent of those on the list have been waiting

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ED at Durham hospital to close overnight on select days in June and July amidst staffing challenges

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The South Bruce Gray Health Center will close the Durham emergency department overnight at times this summer due to a lack of staff.

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“Hospitals across Canada and Ontario are facing staffing challenges and the South Bruce Gray Health Center is no exception. We are experiencing an ongoing shortage of physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers over the summer months,” the hospital corporation said in a news release Wednesday.

The South Bruce Gray Health Center said in its release the temporary changes will allow them to “effectively use our limited resources to safely care for our community.”

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