Jean toomer
Superstar
There’s a tremendous amount of data about the systemic biases in medicine that lead to less surgical intervention, less medical treatment, suboptimal psychiatric therapy for black and poor people that lead to worse outcomes. Sadly your expériences are common.I don't know if any data backs this up or if I'm totally wrong but I feel like medical racism is the reason opioids hit white people more than us. I've had a few injuries in my life through sports and other things and never not once been prescribed any pain medication. Just Tylenol or whatever you can buy.

A 400-Year-Old Crisis: Medical bias based on race
Based on an article by Matt Schur from the AMT Pulse, Summer 2020. A History of Inequality From property ownership to voting to education, inequality for Black people in the United States has existed since the first enslaved people were brought to the country’s shores more than 400 years ago...
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