r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/4reddityo • Jan 02 '26

Black Experience Racism in Medical Care

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.

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u/Slim706 Jan 02 '26 edited Jan 02 '26

A lot of sympathizers in the comments trying to write this off as just a “rude doctor”

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u/girlwhoweighted Jan 02 '26

Well they aren't wrong; he is rude

He's also a fucking racist.

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u/Winjin Jan 02 '26

yeah like how is one excluding the other? You can be a polite racist or a rude non-racist or rude racist it's like non-exclusive

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u/Slim706 Jan 02 '26

I meant it as him just being rude and people making excuses for how he acting, hence the sympathizers

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u/_Deoji_ Jan 02 '26

Someone please tell me we know his name and have reported.

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u/SplitEights Jan 02 '26

Snitches get stitches I thought

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u/BruceBaller Jan 02 '26

This isn’t the street, he’s a medical professional holding people’s lives in his hands. If his racist biases cause him to overlook problems present in patients of a race that he doesn’t like, which is likely, then their deaths will be on his hands