Kennedy Sarich
@K_Sarich
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Ngāpuhi medical doctor based in Ōtautahi ✌🏽
Aotearoa, New Zealand
Joined July 2009
You can't put out half a fire. No one is safe until we're all safe. Stand up for #VaccinEquity!
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I have 3 kids that came through the kura kaupapa school system where Maori was the first language. They loved it - but there weren't enough science resources in te reo. So here's something that I could do, with the amazing @giselledraws and translator Te Ngaru Wehi 1/n
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PRODUCTION TO BEGIN ON THE MĀORI LANGUAGE VERSIONS OF WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS’ ICONIC FILMS THE LION KING AND FROZEN. I am thrilled to announce after the successful release of MOANA Reo Māori we will be bringing these iconic films to screens soon!
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1 week later and @rukuwai_allen still giving me the giggles. I’ll just leave this here. #LandBack #WaitangiDay #NgapuhiNuiTonu
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🎵On the first day of Christmas the Minister of Health gave to me … a fully commissioned Māori Health Authority🎵 (NB p173 Simpson Health and Disability System Review)
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If you don’t want to hear me speak/sing in Te Reo Māori fuck right off and don’t come to my show. I don’t want your money
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"a suggestion university leaders had rejected the idea of caps was not correct".
High Court challenge to admissions scheme | Otago Daily Times Online News
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An Otago University staff member claims senior leadership wanted the medical cap proposal to be accepted immediately. She says they told the Medical Admissions Committee it wasn't the university's job to address 200 years of disadvantage.
rnz.co.nz
Otago University bosses are being accused of misleading critics over its proposal to cap medical school admissions for Māori and other priority groups through its preferential entry pathways.
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“The purpose of peer review is to help to ensure that published research is ethically and methodologically robust. But who gets to decide what is ethically and methodologically robust — and, therefore, what is published?” https://t.co/Z1SyEpahH3
e-tangata.co.nz
"There is no doubt that certain voices are privileged by the editorial process of health and medical journals, whereas others are systematically screened out. " — Vanessa Selak, Rod Jackson, Matire...
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Open Letter to the University of Otago | Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo (@otago): Medical School proposal to introduce equity pathway caps disturbing https://t.co/bDdjbcfVcC
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Do you remember your teachers during medical training who made you feel seen & respected as a person beyond your white coat and resident/med student level? #deeplistening in #MedEd
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No doubt false information is dangerous. There is a reason our people don’t trust the system though. Remember to be kind.
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@MarkGraham_Akl @emmawehipeihana @JacquieKidd1 @K_Sarich I’m not religious, have a terminal diagnosis, and I expect to be voting no because I worry about coercion and the ways in which those of us with illness or disability can be viewed in terms of how important it is for us to be able to keep living.
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Māori doctors have joined calls for the Ministry of Health to urgently reconsider postponing a self-swabbing cervical cancer programme they say is more effective, less invasive and more affordable. https://t.co/EkzQTmWE1l
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