Clinical Psychiatrist: Letdown

Disproportionate Number Dept: But he was in for a letdown, according to The Star. His first impression was quickly confirmed by his work as a as a clinical psychiatrist and researcher . A disproportionate number of his patients were poor, unemployed or underemployed immigrants struggling to get a foothold in their new country. Most lived outside Toronto s 85-per-cent-white downtown core. Some faced overt discrimination; most didn t know why they were being passed over by employers, shunned by landlords and marginalized by society and one of the reasons British psychiatrist Dr. Kwame McKenzie , an international expert on the mental health of immigrants, moved to Canada was its famed cultural mosaic. He looked forward to seeing it for himself when he accepted a job as a senior scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health CAMH six years ago. Rather than the pluralistic society he was expecting in which newcomers and native-born Canadians fit together like pieces of a multicoloured collage, he found a whole bunch of pieces dropped indiscriminately. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.