{"id":284661,"date":"2018-09-09T09:58:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T09:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/09\/northray-purpleandpinkhouses-weasowl\/"},"modified":"2018-09-09T09:58:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T09:58:23","slug":"northray-purpleandpinkhouses-weasowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/09\/northray-purpleandpinkhouses-weasowl\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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weasowl<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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sauvamente<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Beyonc\u00e9 had fucking preeclampsia that shit will KILL YOU and people are really trying to all women that narrative. the maternal mortality rate of Black women is higher than any other woman in the United States. she a Black woman could have died and y\u2019all trying to center this into some bullshit. Black women die everyday in childbirth and soon after and that\u2019s after reconciling that we\u2019ve been experimented on and sterilized against our will historically. now currently we cannot even have healthy babies and cannot even speak about it without people trying to bogart that narrative like\u2026 she could have DIED. a rich ass Black woman, so imagine what the everyday Black woman goes through dealing with obstetric medicine and the healthcare system it\u2019s appalling.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The same thing happened to Serena Williams. She kept insisting to her doctors that something was wrong after she gave birth to her daughter. They didn\u2019t believe Serena and she almost died.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s some not so fun facts. The US has the highest rate of infant and maternal death rates in the developed world. You\u2019re more likely to die here giving birth or within the first year of birth than a so called third world country.<\/p>\n

Also there\u2019s been research that proved doctors and health care workers are less empathetic to black patients because they\u2019re biased in believing black people can tolerate more pain. Who knows maybe that\u2019s why more white people are addicted to pain medications and there\u2019s a \u201cepidemic\u201d because they received more empathy? <\/p>\n

That lack of empathy causes black patients to get less pain medication and get misdiagnosed because their heath concerns fall on unsympathetic ears. Also that lack of empathy spills over to the justice system. Blacks are most likely to receive more harsh sentences and youth offenders aren\u2019t perceived as young children. They\u2019re more likely to be sentenced as adults. <\/p>\n

The bottom line is rich, famous, poor etc if your black you have to be more diligent in choosing your healthcare provider. If someone doesn\u2019t believe in your pain then don\u2019t stop until you find a doctor that has your best interest at heart. Healthcare workers aren\u2019t exempt from bias or racism. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

women and black people absolutely get worse care – so if you\u2019re black AND a woman, guess what. yeah. This shit needs to change.<\/p>\n

One of the ways they are working on studying and creating that change is by using VR training for health care professionals. See, right now, they hire actors to come in with\u00a0\u201csymptoms\u201d and be normal, or difficult, or leave symptoms out etc etc, for diagnostics and patient care training, and that leaves a lot of wiggle room for a person to assume it was something not race or gender related about that person that threw them off their game or whatever.<\/p>\n

But with VR, you can LITERALLY have EVERY SINGLE aspect of a training patient be EXACTLY the same, except their skin color, or gender, or whatever. So then during training, you can be like\u00a0\u201chey Mark, did you know that your success rates are noticeably lower when we control for darker skin color? Analysis indicates that the darker their skin color, the less you listen to their description of their symptoms\u201d and Mark can\u2019t think it was anything about the person\/actor and has to admit to the inherent and unacknowledged racial bias he is displaying. Like\u00a0\u201cno Mark, you diagnosed correctly with Karen and not with Ayesha and they are both identical computer programs whose only difference is name and skin color. Yeah, it\u2019s the same voice reading the same script and everything. Face yourself and grow, Mark, or stop training to be a doctor\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This \u2191 \u2191 is a great first step in holding healthcare professionals accountable. What sense does it make to take The Hippocratic Oath or The Nightingale Pledge if they\u2019re going to give lesser care because of skin color? <\/p>\n

When healthcare workers are biased they put their patients at risk. Their employers should do whatever it takes to make sure they have the best doctors on staff and this is a good start.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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northray: purpleandpinkhouses: weasowl: purpleandpinkhouses: sauvamente: Beyonc\u00e9 had fucking preeclampsia that shit will KILL YOU and people are really trying to all women that narrative. the maternal mortality rate of Black women is higher than any other woman in the United States. she a Black woman could have died and y\u2019all trying to center this into … <\/p>\n

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