Published on Thursday September 20, 2012
By Carol Goar
Editorial Board
The biggest surprise in the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s all-encompassing report on mental health is how deeply embedded discrimination against people with mental disabilities is in the health-care system.
Doctors, nurses and paramedics — who ought to know mental illness is a disease, not a moral weakness — withhold treatment from people who need medical help, ridicule individuals in distress, prejudge and label them.
Health-Care Providers Openly Discriminate Against the Mentally Ill. Read full article.