a Friday, work Friday afternoon in the Stikine Health Centre and Saturday

• Main Authors: Sunday Iskut, First Nations, Return Monday Morning
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Dease Lake; Stikine
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.488.6685; http://www.cfp.ca/content/48/3/459.full.pdf

letters correspondance Mental health care in aboriginals is neglected I enjoyed the December 2001 issue of Canadian Family Physician, particu-larly Dr Carol Herbert’s editorial,1 writ-ten with her usual insight and clarity, and the articles on aboriginal health.2,3 For more than 15 years, I have reg-ularly worked at Dease Lake, in the far northwest corner of British Columbia. The Stikine Health Centre is the most northern, rural, isolated health care facility in the province. Until 2 years ago, I did family medicine locum tenens; however, for the past 2 years I have gone up on a monthly basis, mainly to do psychotherapy. I fly in on