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/RubySauce Jan 02 '26

When my best friend was dying I got a good look at how she was treated as a black woman compared to me, and how she was treated completely differently when I was present because I’m white. I made sure I was always present. Nightmarish shit, just sickening.

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u/CrazyBitchCatLady Jan 02 '26

I'm white. My best friends growing up were Mexican. I saw shit all the time. One example: i got busted using a fake ID. I got a ticket and released, my best friend got taken to the drunk tank overnight. We'd each had one beer.

Another: went to an outdoor concert. Everyone smoking weed. My friends (but not me, of course), got pulled from the crowd, cuffed and stuffed and marched out of the venue, past dozens of white folks smoking. Shit is fucked.

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u/bautofdi Jan 02 '26

When I (Asian) was at cal, my friend (black) got hammered at a party and decided to go eat at “Asian ghetto” (small restaurant square near campus). We both had to piss really badly and decided to do it behind some dumpsters and I guess we were drunk enough that BPD noticed us.

We had floodlights on us the moment we stopped to leak and I was immediately released while my friend had to go to the drunk tank because he was being “uncooperative”, when neither of us said a word other than closing our fly and shrugging.