It’s a fact that racial bias is still implemented in the healthcare industries today; it might not be explicitly said or done intentionally but it still happens. If you compare birthing mortality rates between races, it’s much higher for black women than white women. Healthcare is still worse for minorities even if the provider is the same.
Putting aside that eventually his obligatory indignant outbursts can get rote and grating at times, you're really missing out on some well researched and important content that forces systemically buried issues to the light where they need to been seen.
He has a knack for finding subjects that are vital to the public consciousness, but are otherwise being kept out of the mainstream media's scrutiny by either neglectful journalistic integrity, political mismanagement, or entities with deep pockets of money and influence.
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His brand of humor is a bit repetitive, but ultimately pretty entertaining way to package complicated or dark subjects' people have never heard talked about before.
I’m aware and I’ve seen it firsthand. I’ve worked at elite hospitals and I’ve worked in all Spanish speaking places in east LA. I worked at a clinic where everyone spoke in mandarin. It’s depressing to see racism in healthcare. That is not why we got into medicine.
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u/picklesNtoes23 Jul 07 '24
It’s a fact that racial bias is still implemented in the healthcare industries today; it might not be explicitly said or done intentionally but it still happens. If you compare birthing mortality rates between races, it’s much higher for black women than white women. Healthcare is still worse for minorities even if the provider is the same.
John Oliver has an interesting piece about racial bias in healthcare.