In the hospital that day in May, Monterroso was feeling woozy and having trouble communicating, so she called a friend and her friend's cousin, a cardiac nurse, for help. They started asking the doctor questions: What about Karla's accelerated heart rate? Her low oxygen levels? Why are her lips blue?
"One of the nurses came in and she was like, 'I heard about your ordeal. I just want you to know that I believe you. And we are not going to let you go until we know that you are safe to go,'" Monterroso recalls. Experts say this happens routinely, and regardless of the doctor's intentions or race. Monterroso's doctor in the Alameda ER was not white, for example.Research shows that every doctor, every human being, has biases they're not aware of, says, assistant dean for diversity at the University of Texas at Austin medical school.
"How do I tell my clinician, 'Well, the patient thinks you're racist?'" Salazar says."It's a hard conversation: 'I gotta be careful, I don't want to say the race word because I'm going to push some buttons here.' So it just starts to become really complicated."says he remembers when doctors resisted these conversations. When managers suggested trainings in cultural sensitivity or unconscious bias, they were met with a backlash.
"If you see a pattern evolving around a certain group and it's a persistent pattern, then that tells you there's something that from a cultural, from an ethnicity, from a gender, something that group has in common, that you're not addressing," Copeland says."Then the real work starts."
And NPR makes more people of color suffer and die from COVID while the wealthy enjoy their retreats because you are dismissive of EARLY TREATMENT for COVID-19 proven BRD for a half year. U do weepers & blamers but fail to report 99% of the evidence. Check out Uttar Pradesh.
It is illegal for hospitals to deny healthcare. Could it possibly be that media outlets such as yourselves have promoted a disease that has a 0.0003% mortality rate? Not everyone works in healthcare like myself and turns to you for guidance. You should be ashamed.
Saw a news reportthat poc are 70% more likely to be hospitalized for covid19. Can these both be true?
It is sadly I have seen this everywhere within health care. That treatment angers me to my core. It is also why people of color are less likely to seek treatment until symptoms are so severe.
Sure Jussie
She probably CHOSE an HMO health plan where the providers have financial incentives to limit the amount of care given. A PPO plan incentivizes the delivery of MORE care. Oh, and always remember, it's IMPOSSIBLE to buy the wrong health plan when there's only ONE sold.
This is a racist country. Until we own up to that, we can't even begin to fix it.
FakeNews
Let me get this straight:she demands tests she doesn't need, then got them at another hospital? Who paid? Gallstones bc of Covid?😂 Good one. Not bc of the extra poundage? And she doesn't feel well? Bc racism? I feel like shit every day, you gonna write a story about that?
So they didn't give her tests she demanded which apparently she didn't need? Who was paying for the unnecessary tests? Gallstones as a results of COVID bwahahahah!!! that's a good one! Not bc of her extra poundage? Wow you people are disgusting.
What state was that in?
Didn't you know? Women don't actually get sick - we're 'hysterical' or it's 'nerves' or 'for attention'. We're supposed to BEG and PLEAAAAAAD to even be taken vaguely seriously and even then 'there's nothing really wrong'. Being black makes it worse. AmericanMedicineForYa
Caution! Race Bait INCOMING!
And she’s still getting chided at and dismissed in these comments. No self-awareness...
I don't like your tone, young lady😠
So, Democrat doctors are Democrats first.
This is horrible but, as a nurse, I knew we took care of all of our patents with no bias at all.
Had enough of the Bipolar Media yet?
Honest is good. Assuming is bad. Check of lifestyle, always good. Maybe you guys can get out my Living Religion, Joy Facebook page.
definitely happened
There are definitely biases towards people of color, the poor and less educated but also being a brown woman is like a double whammy. Women of all races are dismissed more quickly. Major problem in society and medicine in particular.
These people never consider that maybe they act like jerks and people treat them accordingly
Her 'tone'? Outrageous. I wish she would release the name of that physician and hospital. I know how terrible it feels when you're really sick, yet have to bite your tongue in order to be treated.
What “color” is she?
I’ll take shit that never happened for a 1,000 Alex
Confirmation bias works regardless of what your bias may be. NPR, please stop promoting a mentality that keeps people as permanent victims and breeds insanity for our entire society. We already have Trump, we don't need any more gaslighting.
Shocking that the person who makes money from finding “racism” everywhere, found racism at the hospital.
So damn wrong and SAD.
ER staff are mean to everyone cause everyone is impatient and mean to them
A BS story to garner sympathy for a cynical politician pretending to be black.
Please. We weren’t there. We don’t know what was said from both sides. Not everything is because of supposed skin color. Maybe the ER staff sees thousands of similar patients and just dismissed her symptoms NOT her because of color.
When all doctors work for the government, they’ll be so much nicer.
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