I feel like this is a super important topic that we rarely talk about. The fact that doctors treat black people differently when it comes to medical practices.

The idea that black people are a lot less vulnerable to pain that everyone else. This topic I never really thought of at first but it was brought up by black women and how black women die the most during childbirth and it’s partly due to the belief they can handle pain amongst other things.

There’s so many stories of black women going to doctors for doctors to dismiss their concerns and with that, black men have been coming forward as well.

Someone replied to this saying they went to the doctors for something serious and the doctor said they didn’t have a problem because their skin wasn’t turning blue...which for majority of us, lots of serious illnesses will be missed because no one else can see them just that we can only experience it.

I’m not sure if I’ve experienced it but I remember I had an operation on my eye and they said they had put anaesthesia but I could feel everything. I could feel the drill, I could feel the burning. I’m never really had much surgery for anything else so I couldn’t really compare it...

Any of you been in a similar situation?

bruh i know this too well
im literally not in good health at the moment because of this

edit: yeah they tried to operate on my without anesthesia too once

Was going through health issues a few years ago; alot of pain every single day. Went to specialist, after specialist and after running tests they would give me the run around on a diagnosis + refer me to another doctor. Mind you, these niggas are hard as f*** to make appointments for. You schedule in June and won't see them till October

Long story short, I said f*** all this running around. We already ruled out life-threatening s***. I changed my diet, started working out more and now I use tea + ibuprofen when I'm in pain (which has VASTLY subsided and no longer daily).

whats wrong bro?

And imma keep it a real true bean itt. I don't even want these niggas prescribing me no bullshit anyway. Have all types of side effects; im cool

im getting better and recovering rather not talk about it

Surgery without being put the sleep

understand, keep ya head up king

i think for my case they just injected my eye with the anaesthesia? idk but they told me i wasn’t supposed to feel anything

i never had any surgery before that and i haven’t had one since so i think it’s probably the most painful thing i’ve experienced

nice one fam

it’s ridiculous they likely don’t teach about non white bodies and the doctors are mostly stumped too...

same s*** man they really dont give a f*** about niggas man

Its crazy that you posted that article and mentioned this, cause one of the specialist deadass said this to me "Your symptoms are out of my league" and sent me packing to another specialist

The next specialist ruled out alot of s*** which I appreciated, but pretty much said the same s*** as the 1st one. Sent me packing back to my family doctor

Wow that’s crazy because if they injected it your definitely not suppose to be feeling anything. Sorry you had to go through that

@str8dollaz

the data on health outcomes for black people, especially black women (in the US), is distressing

it really is

on black british twitter the topic came up again because one well known couple, the mother and the child died...they made their videos on the timeline before with them talking about the baby...

Link? Would be kinda cool to see black British twitter

s***s a damn shame that’s why so many of us don’t go and just home remedy everything

I actually wrote a literature review abt ethnic bias in healthcare for uni a couple of weeks ago lol

Pediatricians are less likely to give non-white children pain killers the more ethnic bias they have it goes deep

link to what fam

there was a kinda viral pic not sure if it was on ktt or twitter but it was about how to approach the different races when it comes to the medical field

couple on black British twitter or just ppl you follow on there

Need to do more research into it. I don't believe random stories especially people on social media.

twitter.com/nellarose_/status/1282405726871326722?s=21

twitter.com/LickshotLippy?s=21

twitter.com/LillzTrackLife?s=21

twitter.com/Unkle_K?s=21

twitter.com/Jamz693?s=21

i don’t actually follow many of these people but they tend to pop up a lot on my tl

alright

cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/p0905-racial-ethnic-disparities-pregnancy-deaths.html

babycenter.com/black-maternal-mortality-rate

heart.org/en/news/2019/02/20/why-are-black-women-at-such-high-risk-of-dying-from-pregnancy-complications

cbsnews.com/video/black-people-share-their-experiences-of-racial-bias-in-health-care

washingtonpost.com/health/racial-disparities-seen-in-how-doctors-treat-pain-even-among-children/2020/07/10/265e77d6-b626-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html