This is a farce, if there is any discrimination occuring in Canadian hospitals it towards smokers and the obese. Sure there may be incidents by bad practitioners but it is far for a tipping point. Im so sick of every special interest immediately going to racism the minute someone treats them unfairly. In Canada there are checks and balances to prevent things like the "Rapper" experienced, he may have slipped through the cracks, the triage nurse may indeed have been biased but the outliers are the exception not the rule. Rather than going to the media to self promote his music he could have reported the incident to his local ministers office, ombudsman or hospital oversight. Plenty of people do show up to emergency looking for drugs, whether they are in pain or not is not the point, you walk into a hospital with an attitude that they need to bow down to your demands, you will have a bad experience. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Healthcare workers are some of the most over worked, abused and stressed public employees we have, and when a so called reporter writes a hit job against the system like this it really pisses me off.