Racism and Discrimination in Healthcare: How it Goes Both Ways
“Never trust anyone who says they do not see color. This means to them, you are invisible” -Nayyirah Waheed
March 13th 2013, I had injured my left bicep something fierce like while competing in a mixed martial arts contest. The only way I could describe the pain was as an electric type of shooting constant pain that caused numbness and tingling in my left arm and hand. I must have been referred to no less than four orthopedic doctors, each diagnosing me with a muscle strain. One month later I was still feeling the effects of this muscle strain and I asked my primary care physician (whom was a Indian Woman from India with a thick Indian accent) to refer me to get an MRI done just …show more content…
Racism and discrimination are being progressively implicated in racial and ethnic disparities within health care. Many believe that the inequalities associated with racism contribute to other factors including, safety and quality of care of ethnic minority groups. But racism and discrimination in healthcare do not solely occur from a provider to patient perspective- when health care providers initiate racism and discrimination practices to the patient. Racism and discrimination also often occurs from a patient to provider perspective- when the patient initiates racism or discrimination practices to the health care providers. In any case, these are very important issues when it comes to transcultural communications within the health care system. There are serious and sometimes fatal consequences associated with possible outcomes which are directed associated with choices made or not made based on racial and discrimination practices in healthcare. It begs the question from a patients point of view, is delaying medical care based on barriers such as someone’s race, religion, sex, age worth dyeing
“Never trust anyone who says they do not see color. This means to them, you are invisible” -Nayyirah Waheed
March 13th 2013, I had injured my left bicep something fierce like while competing in a mixed martial arts contest. The only way I could describe the pain was as an electric type of shooting constant pain that caused numbness and tingling in my left arm and hand. I must have been referred to no less than four orthopedic doctors, each diagnosing me with a muscle strain. One month later I was still feeling the effects of this muscle strain and I asked my primary care physician (whom was a Indian Woman from India with a thick Indian accent) to refer me to get an MRI done just …show more content…
Racism and discrimination are being progressively implicated in racial and ethnic disparities within health care. Many believe that the inequalities associated with racism contribute to other factors including, safety and quality of care of ethnic minority groups. But racism and discrimination in healthcare do not solely occur from a provider to patient perspective- when health care providers initiate racism and discrimination practices to the patient. Racism and discrimination also often occurs from a patient to provider perspective- when the patient initiates racism or discrimination practices to the health care providers. In any case, these are very important issues when it comes to transcultural communications within the health care system. There are serious and sometimes fatal consequences associated with possible outcomes which are directed associated with choices made or not made based on racial and discrimination practices in healthcare. It begs the question from a patients point of view, is delaying medical care based on barriers such as someone’s race, religion, sex, age worth dyeing