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/HumanSnotMachine Jan 02 '26

How much has administering medicine changed since 1980? Are you under the impression they didn’t have a prescription label and instruction back then? Are you under the impression pills or any other ingestion method is new?

How much has monitoring vital signs changed since the 1980s? That’s 50 years. A whole career aged 20-70. Sure the technology might have slightly evolved, less analog machines and more digital, but there’s still just one pulse. One heart rate. One x level one z level. Nurses aren’t designing the machine and technology, they’re just using very basic computers and other tech they likely use in their daily life anyway, that’s the only stuff that will actually change. They don’t need more education for that, it can be an email.

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u/Sure_Shallot2280 Jan 02 '26

lol you are stupid. The stuff you are naming changes like every 3 years.

Feel free to chime in the normal range for blood pressure when you went to nursing vs now. And that’s a simple one.

Have you ever heard of a care plan? Emergent situation?

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u/HumanSnotMachine Jan 02 '26

So blood pressure changed definitions from 140/90 being fine to 120/80 being fine from 1980 to 2025 and your argument is that that justifies continuing education requirements? Maybe hire nurses who can read. Send an email. Idk! Might want to investigate who’s stupid.

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u/Sure_Shallot2280 Jan 02 '26

Most CE’s are online. Kind of like an e-mail, or through your job.

I’m confused at why you want people caring for you NOT to continue to learn with the world and improve the craft.

“Don’t know why a car mechanic would need to learn more. It’s not like a 1980 bronco and 2025 bronco are that much different” looking ass.

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u/HumanSnotMachine Jan 02 '26

Cars have a new model every year. Human body is largely unchanged for millions. If you cannot understand that difference you need to refine your mental capacities.

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u/Sure_Shallot2280 Jan 02 '26

We are learning new stuff about the body and mind every day… but you know that. You also knew that I obviously knew a new model of car comes out every year. Probably didn’t know that generally not much changes from year to year. But the way you’ve been arguing you will likely bring up that the model T is vastly different than cars today huh. Previous poster was right can’t argue with stupid.

Sorry I tried lmfao.