Post: #racism
#racism Medical racism. If you're sick, you're sick. What does race have to do with that ? Racism has everything to do with how people are treated in the health care system. But my doctor isn't racist. Why should I care ? Because your doctor isn't the entire health care system ? Medical racism refers to systemic biases and discriminatory practices that impact the healthcare of minorities communities. A study showed that fifty percent of medical students and residents had false beliefs about biological differences between black and white patients. False beliefs like black people skins thicker, black people's blood coagulates more quickly, or that black people have less nerve endings. Those who believe this provided less accurate care to black patients. Medical racism has deadly consequences, including high black maternal mortality rates. It's Black women are three times more likely to die during childbirth in some places, as high as seven times. And there are literally medical equations that treat black people differently. There's an equation that assumed that all black patients had better kidney functioning than any other race, all because of the false belief that all black patients have higher muscle mass ally that justified slave every. It's wrong, it's racist. And it made it harder for black patients to get kidney transplants. That equation finally changed only in twenty twenty one. You don't want to be a doctor or a Medical student to care about this information about medical racism can save lives, share, believe, inspire blackaby.
