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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/white-doctor-video-mississauga-1.4168199
Video shows woman demand a 'white doctor' treat son at Mississauga, Ont., clinic
'This is bad, this is inappropriate and shouldn't go unnoticed,' says witness who shot video
A Mississauga, Ont., man is stunned after witnessing and filming a woman make several demands for a "white doctor" who "doesn't have brown teeth" and "speaks English" at his local walk-in clinic on Sunday.
Hitesh Bhardwaj recorded the incident while waiting for his own appointment at Rapid Access to Medical Specialists in Mississauga, Ont. He shared his video with CBC News.
Over the course of four minutes of video, a woman asks clinic staff several times for a "white doctor" to treat her son who she says has chest pains. When staff tell her that no such doctor is available, the woman gets angry and at one point says "being white in this country I should just shoot myself."
"I saw a doctor that was not white that did not help my kid," says the woman in the video. "I would like to see a white doctor. You're telling me there isn't one white doctor in this whole entire building?"
CBC Toronto tried to identify the woman to give her a chance to respond to the video, but was unsuccessful as of Monday evening. We've obscured her face in the video to protect the identity of her son.
Bhardwaj says that he started filming the incident after a woman sitting next to him asked the agitated woman why the doctor had to be white. "I couldn't help but record the video," said Bhardwaj. "This is bad, this is inappropriate and shouldn't go unnoticed."
Bhardwaj said, as an immigrant to Canada himself, he's really proud to live here and "couldn't believe" what he saw.
"I couldn't stop thinking about it," Bhardwaj said. "The whole episode kept on repeating in my head, I was very upset. You know I can't even define the feeling."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/white-doctor-video-mississauga-1.4168199
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