Putting out the narrative.

Ian Bibby putting out the narrative on the Faceborg.

Democrats: Hey white people, why don’t you elect America’s first black President, so we can finally achieve racial healing and work together in harmony with our past behind us!

White people: Sounds great, done!

Democrats: …Oh, and also apologize for your white privilege and grovel to us for forgiveness, agree to become a permanent minority everywhere, abandon systemically racist concepts like due process and presumption of innocence, allow in an infinite amount of immigrants including likely terrorists to replace you and depress your wages, abolish meritocratic capitalism in favor of a sort of racial Marxis- HEY, WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!!

Does not matter. The narrative will double down. From the medical council of NZ.

Council chairman, Mr Andrew Connolly says cultural competence and genuine partnership with M?ori are important aspects of achieving excellence in medical practice.

Both cultural competence and partnership improve our understanding and knowledge of our patients and allow us to consider inequities in patient care and patient outcomes and inform ways to address these.

In doing so we improve the care we provide and therefore improve patient and population health outcomes.’

‘A particular focus of Council’s cultural competence standards is on best practices when providing care to M?ori patients and their wh?nau.

Today, nearly 10 years since the publication of the Council’s standards on cultural competence many health statistics continue to highlight the poorer outcomes that M?ori experience compared to other groups.

Mr Connolly says, ‘Council sees health inequities as unacceptable and from this arise professional and moral obligations to address inequity.

‘It is now timely to re-emphasise the Council’s expectations of the profession to be culturally competent and to outline expectations around the profession’s engagement and partnership with M?ori organisations and healthcare providers.’

M?ori engagement with, and representation at, all levels within the health sector is vital to improving M?ori health outcomes.

M?ori doctors have historically advocated strongly on behalf of M?ori and worked to break down barriers experienced by M?ori patients in accessing the health system. This continues with today’s M?ori medical students and doctors and extends far beyond any one clinical consultation.

‘As a profession, one significant way we can help improve equity is by supporting M?ori doctors in their advocacy and leadership roles within the profession and in society. It is encouraging to see this year for the first time, demographic proportionality has been achieved, with the number of M?ori students entering medical school proportionate to the M?ori population. The challenge is ensuring that this proportionality will in turn continue throughout all layers of health organisations.’ Mr Connolly said.

Whilst the determinants of equity are broader than health alone, there are also important considerations for institutions involved in health care.

Well, this causes debate in meetings… there is a need, out of basic courtesy, to work with people in their place. A doctor should not choose who they see, and should treat all with dignity and respect. This goes back tot he Hippocratic school of Medicine. But skill in medicine comes slowly. The path is difficult, and the outcomes uncertain.

And if we concentrate on Social Justice we will not do our role.

I expect more proclamations as such, now that the medical council no longer has a disciplinary role: that has been devolved to the Health and Disability Council by Parliament.

This is not going to end well. For Maori. Or for the Democrats, or the Medical Council.