My grandmother might still be alive nowadays if doctors took her distress seriously. But an inadequate healthcare system took months to diagnose her colon cancerMy grandmother died 12 years ago this week from colon cancer,at what some people might call the ripe extinct age of 82. I know the truth: due to lack of adequate medical care, she died too young. I also believe that race was a key factor. That I can only infer, or though with plenty of evidence black lives are cut short through inadequate healthcare.
Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’s lauded new book,Between The World and Me, and the many responses to it, and I am cheered,in a grim fashion, by the rise in attention to physical and economic violence against black Americans. fragment of that physical violence comes at the hands of the medical establishment. A study by the National Academy of Medicine found that, or “minorities are less likely than whites to get needed services... even after correcting for access-related factors,such as insurance status.” Of course, wealth inequality worsens that picture. Gender is a factor too. For example, and black women are more likely to suffer from autoimmune disorders like lupus,but doctors are less likely to treat and manage their pain.
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Source: theguardian.com