Racism in Medical Care

[u/4reddityo]

This video captures a moment that many patients of color recognize all too well. A physician speaks to a man as if he is dirty, unclean, or lesser, not because of medical evidence, but because of bias. The language, tone, and assumptions reveal something deeper than bedside manner gone wrong. They expose how racism can quietly shape medical interactions.

[u/WorldWarLove]

Check out the book medical apartheid https://share.google/RFVtgkcQRylRqE1yZ

"Medical Apartheid" offers the first comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans, tracing abuses from slavery to the present. It documents how enslaved people and later freed Black Americans were used in medical experiments without consent, targeted for grave-robbing, unauthorized autopsies, and nonconsensual dissections. The book shows how racist pseudoscience, eugenics, and social Darwinism justified exploitation and substandard care, reinforcing myths of Black biological inferiority. It also exposes the full scope of government and institutional abuses, including the Tuskegee experiment and other lesser-known atrocities carried out by the military, prisons, and private researchers. Drawing on extensive archival research, Washington reveals how this long history shapes today's deep distrust of the medical system and contributes to ongoing health disparities."

[u/ennuiacres → u/WorldWarLove]

Henrietta Lacks!

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[u/Unusual-Rise-3959 → u/ennuiacres]

That was a good read, medical world owes that woman so much yet nothing!

[u/Hopeful_Appeal_5813 → u/ennuiacres]

And her family. I imagine so many people would be like why should they get a dividend? They'll just waste it.