Originally published at http://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/24/trying-kill-me-black-doctor-who-died-covid-19-posted-harrowing-video-alleging
If Biden doesnât address systemic racism in the country, in every single aspect of American life such as âIndustry, Law Enforcement, the Military and Healthcareâ for starters, 81 million of us made another huge fucking mistake 6 weeks ago and we must commit as soon as humanly possible to never doing so again.
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As sad as this particular story is, the âtreatmentâ described is not reserved only for black folks. Corporate influence and its structure has turned a lot of modern medical practice here into an impersonal billing apparatus, first and foremost. The doctor briefly stares at a screen, as the patient sits in the corner. Highest cost and worst outcomes - itâs not unfairly declared a racket, possibly only second to the defense budget.
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I agree, but the two links below paint a grim picture on the racism front from Biden.
~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtrMOXw7HHo
âBiden Flips Out At Civil Rights Leadersâ
Secular Talk Platform
~https://theintercept.com/2020/12/10/biden-audio-meeting-civl-rights-leaders/
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I hope her family sues the hospital, Dr. Bannec and any involved in these decisions into financial oblivion; then sets up a foundation with the money to fund advocacy for patients.
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His medical license needs revoking.
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According to the article and the CDC website below, blacks are 3.7 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 and 2.8 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than whites. Rates of hospitalization and death from COVID-19 are also higher for American Indians, Asians, and Latinos than for whites. If access and quality of healthcare in America is so equal among races, why do minorities get hospitalized and die at much higher rates than whites from COVID-19?
Here is another heartbreaking story of a black family in Detroit that was denied adequate and timely treatment for COVID-19 back in April.
Detroit Free Press Websitehttps://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2020/04/19/coronavirus-racial-disparity-denied-tests-hospitalization/2981800001/
CDC websitehttps://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-race-ethnicity.html
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Your post is troubling and here is why: The article makes the pointâa well established point that black people suffer disproportionately "higher rates of chronic illness and worse healthcare treatment and outcomes due to higher levels of poverty and documented systemic racism in which they are less likely to be listened to and believed by medical professionals plagued by implicit bias.
You might want to check the links provided starting with that of the medical communityâs JAMA:
~https://jamanetwork.com/channels/health-forum/fullarticle/2767595
Health Disparities Among Black Persons in the US and Addressing Racism in the Health Care System
Oh, and I am not a âDemocratâ. I am a socialist.
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The socialists come through again with sane thinking and a penchant for responsibility and empathy.
This treatment of people of color is normal capitalism. Do the least service for the maximum in return.
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for the record, the withholding of pain medication to legitimate patients is killing far more than just people of color, although like everything else, they generally get the worst of it.
some of you may have seen my posts on this subject previously, so take a good look at whatâs happening to me and people in m community. weâre being murdered.
please help us stop this nonsense. pain medicine is still medicine, in spite of the fact that some people abuse it. weâve lost between 500k and 1 million of our people in 8 years!
Help stop this.
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Black people have higher rates of hospitalization because their GPs are passing the buck. They admit them, which is more expensive, and then do rounds once a day while the hospitalists and attendings do the majority of the caregivingâŚ
Capitalism is brutal and the commodification of medical care is a manifestation of this brutality. But, in the US as in other locations in the Global North, white supremacy is pervasive and the medical field has a high degree of racism. Members of the US medical profession have engaged in horrendous racist practices against Black and Latinx folk from the time that enslaved Black women were used in gynecological testing to the recent forced sterilization of women in ICE detention. As a Puerto Rican, I am very familiar with the massive racist program, called La Operacion, that sterilized 1/3 of the women on the island (_https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpu79i). During the Black Lives Matter Uprising, there was pushback by some in the medical community, justifying these past practices. Hereâs one article from the National Institute of Health, that was forwarded to me as âproofâ that Puerto Rican woman wanted the sterilizations that they got and that the program was not racist. _https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12279870/
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Resveratrol is safe, cheap, a constituent of foods and seems to inhibit covid-19 replication. It also inhibited SARS and MERS which are more virulent relatives of COVID.
Its in Phase 2 clinical trails in Ohio.
There is no risk to taking it in normal amounts. Its known to be healthy and known to inhibit covid-19, it may be protective. A teenage girl won a national science prize a few yers ago for her paper proposing it as a treatment for MERS.
The âinvasive plantâ root (Japanese knotweed or polygonum cuspidatum) its made from is one of the two most used TCMs for treating COVID-19 in China.
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Heartless in the âheartlandâ
Oh, but if only we could âuniteâ with these bigoted bastards âŚ
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Women are also subject to neglect from doctors due to implicit bias. John Oliver did an excellent piece on âBias in Medicine,â which is on Youtube, that discusses how racism and sexism affect patient care: _https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TATSAHJKRd8
In the case of women, doctors have treated some diseases which mostly affect women as unlikely to be real. Trust me, Iâve been through it, getting the wrong autoimmune disease means doctors will send you away to suffer alone. People now canât comprehend how people can be convinced coronavirus isnât real. Those of us with fibromylagia or chronic fatigue syndrome have had our own diseases treated as unreal:
_https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/03/27/597159133/how-bad-medicine-dismisses-and-misdiagnoses-womens-symptoms
The sad truth about the healthcare system, is that it has gotten away with this sort of behavior for years, simply because people believe all doctors âjust want to help people,â and deny that bigots can and do work in this profession. My healthy friends never believed me about all the sexist crap I was getting from doctors, because they, too had naive ideas about doctors. Anyone can get a degree in medicine. The field doesnât screen doctors for bigoted or sexist ideas before hiring them.
So the same racist, sexist morons who work at every other job work in healthcare also. Worse, med school teaches and promotes bigoted ideas about women and minorities, which ensures doctors believe these ideas. Doctors donât only believe these things, they will cling to these biases even if it harms or kills the patient.
This has to stop. I hope Dr. Mooreâs death will not be in vain. We must fight and demand the healthcare system abandon bigotry. There need to be laws put in place to stop this sort of behavior from doctors. Believe it or not, pretty much zero of these incidents get litigated. If youâre a victim of it, you are completely on your own. This has to stop so there wonât any more loss of black and female lives. Having an MD doesnât give you the right to be an idiot. It certainly doesnât give you the right to take human life!
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Why would anyone imagine that Biden will drop his racism?
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What hurtsâŚWhat hurtsâŚWhat hurts the mostâŚHold OnâŚI need a momentâŚas I gain my composer⌠⌠âŚWhat hurts in ways that is most undescribable is when this is a member of your family experiencing thisâŚthis disregard⌠A pain, a hurt known and felt when there is little to Nothing that you can do about itâŚâŚ
âŚFrom a place deep â Deep within the heart and soulâŚI send Thermal compassionate energy to ALL those that know this indescribable feeling. I send Energy that arises from a place where there is a communal understanding of the tribulation needlessly endured by many⌠United buy this scourge.
unfortunately the story is not the exception but the ruleâthe medical system in this country is designed for one thingâto maximize profits at the expense of health care to humansâit has little to do with the actual delivery of health careâas an ER nurse for almost 20 years I saw person after person denied care for lack of moneyâturned away when their symptoms demanded actionâsent down the road to other institutions to try their luckâbecause real care in this country depends entirely on your wealth --even with insurance you will get inferior care if you are not wealthy and if you are sick enough that they end up treating you ---- they will take everything you have and send you and/or your family to the streets for their money even if you die from the lack of care they provided
-ours is a capitalist driven systemâthat is money has priority over peopleâs health and if you canât pay you deserve NO heath careâthis is why there is no universal health care hereâthe heath care executives wonât make the outrageous fortunes the current system generates and the owners will not get their huge cut of the money they stole from taking advantage of the pain and suffering of millions
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Marcus Garvey had the right idea. Too late now, though.
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another racist murder by the system of white supremacy we have lived under since the 1600âs. WAKE UP AMERIKA.