Florence Genaille was just a little girl in a Brandon, Man., sanatorium when she says doctors bound her to a gurney, pumped her body with electric currents and then took notes as her fingers curled, her arms shook and her neck strained backwards.
It was 1953. The Ojibwa girl from Rolling River First Nation was at the sanatorium to be treated for tuberculosis.
Today, she believes it was no treatment. It was, she says, a medical experiment and she was their “guinea pig” — an assessment that today, Genaille shares with hundreds of survivors of those sanatoriums, which have been closed for decades.
Every time I think I’ve seen the worst of america I find something like this
this was actually in Manitoba, Canada
Every moment counts; let's capture them.