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What about us? Asian doctors speak out about marginalisation in health sector
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What about us? Asian doctors speak out about marginalisation in health sector
Wednesday 26 May 2021, 04:25 AM

Consultant paediatrician Renee Liang detailed the obstacles faced by New Zealand’s first naturalised Chinese immigrant, Wong Ah Poo Hoc Ting (pictured)
In early May, the Auckland Chinese Medical Association finally held its long-delayed annual conference. Its opening speakers quickly set the tone for the day-long get-together – frustration, anger and forbearance, for what clinicians and patients of Asian ethnicity endure. Simon Maude reports
In need yet invisible, A quarter of New Zealand’s population identifies as Asian, but they are under-served in healthcare.
Both explicit and implicit racism towards Asian
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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