Not acknowledging the mana of every patient is a misuse of a doctor’s power, says Porirua GP Lucy O’Hagan.
As a GP, Dr Lucy O'Hagan meets people every day whose bodies carry "big stories" of trauma — one day, that was three different patients who'd had a family member murdered.
While O'Hagan can't always offer them hope, she tries to honour the mana of each patient by celebrating their personal strengths - something many people in the 86-percent Māori and Pasifika community have not experienced from a Pākehā GP.
"If I tell them how amazing they are, that's really powerful because people like me don't tell them that," O'Hagan tells Saturday Morning.
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