"When I came in from the streets I was 117 pounds and I was filthy dirty. I’d go days without eating."

"It's harder for women on the streets."

"I called my partner at the time and said, 'I think I just got fired from being a patient.'"

“I got fired from being a patient.”

“I went to a sexual abuse program at a healing lodge. We were supposed to scream...I screamed my head off."

"I saw a lot of racism in that hospital."

I immediately went to the patient relations office and explained the situation. I said, ‘This doctor does not like gays.’”

"I said this doctor doesn't like gay people."

"The challenge in Canada is the failure to acknowledge the impact of racism or white supremacist logic in health care."

"Providers downplay the role of racism."

"I kept wondering what was going on in my patient's lives. That led to my research."

"I wanted to work in community clinics."

"I had the operation, but it turned out I didn’t have cancer. I was very angry."

"It turned out I didn't have cancer."

I said to myself, ‘If this is what the rest of my life is going to be like, I am not going to waste it.’

Disability is not stopping me from living.

"Our region is putting more effort into health promotion through social media.”

"We're doing more through social media."

"I’ve given up apologizing. I agree that this isn’t good care, and ask patients to complain because I'm not having any luck."

"Overcrowding makes us cut corners in emerg."

I think the private system I am using is one that everybody should have in terms of the quality of health care.

I have been paying for private health care.