Hispanics, as well as other minorities, remain woefully underrepresented among physicians.
in the health care system. Now, a new survey overseen by a Baylor University Medical Center physician, has found that those who experience such racism are more likely to put off treatment, not make a follow-up appointments or otherwise delay care.We want to foster conversation and highlight the intersection of race, identity and culture in one of America's most diverse cities.
In Verywell Health's national survey, about 36 percent of the respondents who said they experienced racism in the health care system decided to see another provider. Twenty-eight percent said they delayed making a health decision, such as getting preventative screening, while another 28 percent said they didn’t make follow-up appointments. Nearly one-fourth, or 24 percent, said they stopped getting treatment after encountering racism.
Dr. Alishka Abioye, a primary care physician at Oak Street Health West Bellfort location in southwest Houston, said patients often remark that she is the first Black physician they’ve seen. Seeing a doctor of their same race tends to make patients feel more comfortable, allowing them to build trust, understanding and communication, she said.
One infamous experiment was done by J. Marion Sims, who conducted gynecological surgeries on enslaved women without anesthesia or their consent in the mid-1800s in Montgomery, Ala.Almost a century later, the federal government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama go untreated for syphilis for 40 years for research purposes.
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