Surgeons in Auckland, New Zealand are expressing discomfort with a new policy that requires them to consider the ethnicity of their patients.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/126324

The NZ Herald cited a leaked document outlining the Equity Adjustor that showed elderly Maori patients who had been waiting over a year for surgery jumping ahead of “a 36-year-old Middle Eastern patient who has been waiting almost two years.” This would appear to contradict official promises that the ethnic score would mostly be used as a tiebreaker for patients whose situations are similar in other respects.