On this episode, Delina & Erika talk about being Black and interacting with the healthcare industry. History has not been good to us and there’s a legacy of racism in medical care that we’re still grappling with.
The co-hosts share candidly about their experiences and a special guest, Deidre C., discusses current issues in maternal mortality. Your mind is not playing tricks on you; Medical misery is real. Press play!
Homework
Connect with us on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram to share a time when you were hurt by the medical community. Have you ever felt like your concerns or pain were dismissed by those who were supposed to care for you.
Receipts
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Author: Harriet Washington
Date: 2008
Maternal Resources:
The US medical system is still haunted by slavery (vox.com & Probublica)
Eugene Saenger, Controversial Doctor, Dies at 90
Author: WILLIAM DICKE
Date: October 11, 2007
New York just removed a statue of a surgeon who experimented on enslaved women (vox.com)
Author: P.R. Lockhart
Date: April 18, 2018
The disturbing reason some African American patients may be undertreated for pain (washingtonpost.com)
Author: Sandhya Somashekhar
Date: April 4, 2016
Meet Grandison Harris, the Grave Robber Enslaved (and then Employed) By the Georgia Medical College (smithsonian.com)
Author: Bess Lovejoy
Date: May 6, 2014
Henrietta Lacks’s family wants compensation for her cells
Author: Andrea K. McDaniels
Date, February 14, 2017
Henrietta Lacks: the mother of modern medicine (theguardian.com)
Author: Joanna Moorhead
Date: June 23, 2010
Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis (nytimes.com)
Author: Linda Villarosa
Date: Apri 11, 2018
Yes, opposition to Obamacare is tied up with race (washingtonpost.com)
Author: Paul Waldman
Date: May 23, 2014
How the Affordable Care Act Drove Down Personal Bankruptcy (consumerreports.com)
Author: Allen St. John
Date: May 2, 2017
Nothing Protects Black Women From Dying in Pregnancy and Childbirth (propublica.com)
Authors: Nina Martin, ProPublica, and Renee Montagne, NPR
Date: December 7, 2017
Black moms die in childbirth 3 times as often as white moms. Except in North Carolina. (vox.com)
Author: Julia Belluz
Date: July 3, 2017
Pregnant Women’s Medical Care Too Often Affected by Race (newsweek.com)
Author: Rebecca Grant
Date: July 3, 2016
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine
Author: Damon Tweedy
Date: 2015
US Infant Mortality Stats (cdc.gov)
Wikipedia Profiles:
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