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'Our people were experimented on': Indigenous sanatorium survivors recall medical tests - Manitoba - CBC News

23.9.17

'Our people were experimented on': Indigenous sanatorium survivors recall medical tests - Manitoba - CBC News: Genaille still does not know why doctors performed the electroconvulsive therapy. She still does not know why she was sent to the Brandon sanatorium.

At the time, she was attending residential school outside Brandon. She had bad leg pain with no known cause. Finally, the nuns decided to send her to the sanatorium, saying she might have tuberculosis in her bones.

She didn't. In fact, years later, a doctor told her she had no evidence of tuberculosis at all.

But that didn't stop doctors from ordering extreme bed rest for six months, so strict that she was not allowed to get off the mattress, even when they changed the bedding.

That didn't stop doctors from slicing open the back of her thigh to explore her bone, only to sew it back up, scarring her for life and leaving her with a permanent limp.

She had been, in the doctor's opinion, experimented on — maybe in good faith, but without merit and without consent.


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