What's Behind the Surgical Mask?
They’re at it again! In this episode, Dr. Carol François and her niece Kourtney Square take off the surgical mask to examine systemic racism in healthcare. Medical experimentation and poor healthcare have long plagued the Black/African American community. Learn why this is so and hear Elaine Riddick’s harrowing experience when she endured an unwanted medical procedure. Want to know more? Go to www.whyaretheysoangry.com for information on systemic racism in America, read the blogs, or take the course Systemic Racism: See it, Say it, Confront it.
Citations
“Bad medicine: the harm that comes from racism,” Austin, Frakt, The New York Times, January 13, 2020.
Black Mental Health Alliance, https://blackmentalhealth.com/
"Justice for sterilization victims foundation, NC," https://ncadmin.nc.gov/about-doa/special-programs/welcome-office-justice-sterilization-victims
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, by Harriet A. Washington, Harlem Moon, 2006.
National Medical Association, https://www.nmanet.org/default.aspx
“Physicians and implicit bias: how doctors may unwittingly perpetuate health care disparities,” Elizabeth N. Chapman, MD, Anna Kaatz, MA, MPH, PhD, and Molly Carnes, MD, MS.
“Racism in health care isn’t always obvious,” Joseph V. Sakran, Ebony Jade Hilton, Chethan Sathya, Scientific American, July 9, 2020.
“Sterilized by north carolina, she felt raped once more,” David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 25, 2012.
“Woman fights for compensation for forced sterilization,” Associated Press, Aug. 15, 2011.
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