Actually, we can take the adjectives off. Women in general tend to have a power imbalance. I feel this as a surgeon when I walk into the room and I'm surrounded by male colleagues. I think it's improving, but it hasn't gone away.
In the power imbalance between a patient and a health care provider, when you add the beliefs of the health care provider, having spent years studying and learning, and those of the patient, who is not really thinking about breast cancer day in and day out if that's not their field, there's a power imbalance of knowledge, and it can magnified by stereotypes, bias, racism, and gender or sex inequity—power imbalances that way. As Alethea said, I don't think that should be tolerated. There should be significant ramifications for it.
If you're looking at this concept of racism and whether there is data, during the pandemic, the provincial government launched an inquiry into indigenous-specific racism in the health care system. This was not related to COVID. It wasn't related to vaccines. It wasn't related to PPE. It was literally related to everything in our health care system, and in the middle of a pandemic, it became an urgent inquiry into what was going on in our health care system. It's not one story, one patient; it's an entire population in an entire health care system that no doubt mirrors the rest of Canada.