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The Indigenous medical system and largely women Indigenous medical colleagues got me through medical school and residency. When I was down, the elders would put together a ceremony for me and I would fly home to attend. During the summers, I would go to ceremonies and learn. /1
This created resilience and support that I did not have in the medical learning environment. They would say “nosim, ahkameyimoh. Kihkahkisimostamatinan ekwa kihsahkitihnan.” - “My grandchild, don’t give up. We are praying for you. We love you.” Races like the @CMA_Docs to an /2
extent require a lot of posturing and ego. In Nehiyô culture, we are to have tapahteyimowin (humbleness) so these processes can go against our own values. Just like in medical school when we would allow others to answer before us, out of respect so as to not speak over top of /3
others. But then have no answers to share when it was our turn because they had all been said, and then labeled that we “did not know anything.” I think this is why perhaps Indigenous physicians and other groups may not engage at times. In Nehiyô medicine, we have to approach /4
..everything with love and kindness or it will not work. Western medicine also needs more love and kindness. Our learners need this - I needed this as a learner. A mentor Dr @realpatchadams taught me this, and the importance of humour for healing 
Let’s have more, this 
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