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  • On the whole, they’re used to East Asian health professionals, and some even deliberately seek East Asian doctors.

    They do NOT like South East Asian HCWs, but will tolerate it. There are regular requests in community groups for an ‘Australian’ doctor, and whilst there is plenty of pushback from commenters about what makes a doctor Australian, they tend to say they have issues with the accent (not overly unwarranted, I have an Australian accent but can speak fast, and this is probably the most common feedback I get).

    There are a bigoted few who will actually refuse to see Aboriginal clinicians.












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    3 months ago

    This sounds like a distinctly cultural problem where the word ‘limit’ clearly doesn’t mean very much to the population in question.

    It’s a limit, not a target, and certainly not a floor as some USAsians seem to treat it.

    Here in Australia you can be fined for exceeding the limit by less than 10km/h. Yes, even if you are 1km/h over, and whilst this would probably get thrown out in court you’d still have to take time off to attend court.







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    6 months ago

    Megan MacKenzie, the more junior author (at the time a senior lecturer), received calls threatening her with consequences for her career.

    Why only mention the more junior author? Did the senior authors not get targeted? Did they receive different threats? There’s definitely an implication here and I’d rather not assume… :/

    And how “funny” - when “outed” (and were they?) for being biased, the reaction was to be an absolute turd? Ugh.