{"id":309256,"date":"2025-10-30T12:11:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=309256"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:16:01","slug":"immoral-unethical-top-doc-slams-er-indigenous-fast-track-policy-at-st-vincents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=309256","title":{"rendered":"Immoral, unethical: Top doc slams ER Indigenous fast-track policy at St Vincents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A former president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racp.edu.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Royal Australasian College of Physicians\">Royal Australasian College of Physicians<\/a>, who was also member of Alfred Health\u2019s ethics committee, warns a policy to give Aboriginal patients priority care is a major breach of medical codes of conduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is response to a recent admission by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=308656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">St Vincents Hospital they priortise aboriginal patients for emergency care over and above non aboriginal persons<\/a> in desperate need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The position is also being reviewed at the Federal Government level over potential breaches to funding arrangements.  It goes from bad to worse for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=jacinta-allan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jacinta Allan\">Jacinta Allan<\/a> and her government, poor decision making at every turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact Jacinta Allan applauded this position by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=st-vincents-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"St Vincents Hospital\">St Vincents Hospital<\/a> further highlights how she is completely disconnected from the people of Victoria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one should be supporting medical apartheid in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one should be supporting medical apartheid in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":309257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,10467],"tags":[8634,993,18608,18586,8],"class_list":["post-309256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-medical-aid","tag-jacinta-allan","tag-melbourne","tag-royal-australasian-college-of-physicians","tag-st-vincents-hospital","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309261,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309256\/revisions\/309261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/309257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}