I often went to bed thinking “I don’t know if they’re going to make it.” In June last year a chance meeting allowed Dr Boshart to solidify plans for a dream that she has had as a medical doctor in providing her community, the Anishinaabe people, the kind of healthcare that addresses their needs. As Dr Boshart explains, that goes beyond the purely medical and physical needs. It addresses social, spiritual and mental issues, developing relationships, building on the blocks of understanding to deliver what the community wants, not what the healthcare system feels they should be provided.

The day after our podcast, Dr Boshart and her team had to go in and pack everything away. The people they had temporarily given hope and dignity back to from a medical standpoint, would no longer have access to her caring, empathetic, authentic care.

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