Racial Discrimination Interview

As children grow up, they become the person they turn out to be because of experiences and the culture and society they grew up in. Nations are affected in the same sense because the people living in a nation affect how the nation is influenced and builds its character.

In doing so, he pays particularly close attention to black patients and their relations with health care policies and practices. Smedly maintains that blacks are not only the victims of, inpatient and outpatient treatment, racial policies, and other services but also the victims of its consequences. He argues that many health care administrators are agents to a system of inequality that support provider and administrator biases, geographical inequalities, and racial stereotypes (Smedly 2012).

Like previously stated, there has been a vast history of racial issues particularly in the medical field. These issues have led to minorities, especially African Americans, to not trust medical professionals and procedures. A study found in the Archives of Internal Medicine gives shocking results by stating that “African Americans were far less trusting than whites of the medical establishment and medical researchers in particular. African Americans were 79.2 percent more likely to believe that someone like them would be used as a guinea pig without his or her consent” (Clark 118). There are many cases in the past which would make a minority feel neglected and like a “guinea pig”. For instance, Henrietta Lacks, the main character of Rebecca Skloot’s book, was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1951. Her doctors were shocked at the terrifying rate her tumor was growing (Skloot 117). Her cells were taken from her cervix and they were distributed world wide without her or her family’s consent. The distribution went on for years even after her death

Another bad situation was when M asked me ‘How is the wound?’ I could not answer her and my mentor had to rescue me. NMC (2004) warns that, Nurses are accountable for their actions in practice and it’s the nurse responsibility to explain treatments to the patients.

One study, known as the CARDIA study, showed that all 1,200 of the participants surveyed had been victims of multiple instances of discrimination, which led to much higher rates of absenteeism, turnover and despondency (Waterman et al., 2006). Employees of this particular restaurant lost their positive demeanor and willingness to go above and beyond, as they felt that it was pointless if they were not going to receive equal recognition and opportunity. Over time, the prejudice expressed by the owner caused a rift between the African American and Caucasian employees, as each group built resentment towards each other based on a situation that they had no control over. After losing a handful of valuable employees I realized that I had to proactively seek the assistance of the other shareholders, regardless of what it meant for my employment, as the owner was doing irreparable damage to the brand that could potentially end in a

That department, tucked away in the window-less bowels of the hospital, physically organized in a way in which the only direct contact its members had with the larger (almost entirely white) hospital staff was through a small window where doctors presented their records request, employed about 25 full time workers; all women, all but three (of which I was one) African American. It was the only time in my long work history (I made a career in advertising) in which I worked in a situation in which minorities were the majority, and the only time I worked under the supervision of an African American department head. (In fact, in a long career in business, in the nation's most liberal cities, it was one of only a very few times I worked with African Americans at all.) These (public sector) jobs provided my African American co-workers and supervisors' families -- almost all were married -- with stability that their husbands' less dependable and riskier work, in African American unions and their own small neighborhood businesses, couldn't on their own. In this, and in their hopes for their children, their respect for education, their desire for advancement, their professionalism and commitment they were absolutely no different than the white women I worked with over the next few decades, as work became less stable for white men too, and two incomes became a necessity for anything approaching the middle class in the white community. (Actually, they took their work much more seriously, and approached it with more professionalism, because unlike many working and middle class white women of my own generation, they didn't expect that a day would come when they could stay home with the kids and live off one, their husbands',

While today’s “patients [have] one thing going for them that Henrietta didn't: They [are] alive. And the dead have no right to privacy-even if part of them is still alive,” (Skloot 211) history’s ethical debate regarding medical racism remains a social issue. When patients experience racism, they may be unable to defend themselves if they are incapacitated by medical professionals. Due to patient negligence and bias, the health care provider’s poor treatment breaks the trust of minorities. As shown in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and treatment of Henrietta Lacks, doctors and researchers have failed to inform the participants correctly. Both occurrences highlight medical racism because of the historical maltreatment of minority groups. Now, many

Health care disparities in the United States occur on the provider level. The implicit biases providers are susceptible to help shape physician behavior and produce differences in medical treatment across a host of demographic characteristics but mainly along the lines of race and ethnicity. This paper focuses mainly on the relationship between providers and Black Americans. There is a complex and historical relationship between providers and Black Americans which dates back to the 16th century that is the basis for the biases physicians exhibit towards this particular minority group in today’s healthcare system. Contrary to popular belief, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in 1932 is not the forerunner to a host of medical abuses committed against

ill experience the public spheres and the workplace discrimination at the same level, because they have both conditions. Another example is the fact that African American women are often forgotten in history textbooks (Strickland & Weems, 2000, p. 72). In addition, even in todays’ news we talk more about the killing of African American men but not the ones of African American women (Ted Woman). From this perspective, other myths will derive such as the Strong Black Women myth (Black & Peacock, 2011). This myth is about a “gender-critical approach” in which African-American women are seen as stronger and responsible for their “health experiences” (Black & Peacock, 2011, 144). A research named Scott with his study sees the myth as forcing African American women to feel like they are self-reliant which will lead them to believe that they need to take care of their family, community, etc. Scott will refer to this idea as the management “warrior mode” (1991).

Health care providers receive little or no training on issues of race and racism. As a result, awareness of racism and its impact on health care delivery is low. Until racial issues are honestly addressed by members of the health care team, it is unlikely that we will see significant improvements in racial health care disparities for Americans. Barriers to racial health care equity therefore includes the health care system (insurance, funding), the patient (poor health literacy, fear, mistrust), the community (awareness, advocacy), and the health care providers (bias, attitudes, expectations, stereotyping). Nelson, (2016).

Both, the nurse and African American managers lacked social awareness. The nurse manager and African American manager lacked empathic accuracy. They failed to understand the patient’s thoughts, feelings, and intentions (Buchbinder and Shanks, 2012, p. 301). The nurse should have made herself fully receptive to the negative feedback from the minority patients regarding the patient satisfaction survey. She should have provided feedback on ways to prevent discrimination and worked to meet the needs of the community (Buchbinder and Shanks, 2012, p. 33).

The article is based on the experience of a Dr. Ron Wyatt, a reputable medical doctor/ patient safety officer, who sought medical care in a hospital when he had a fever of 104 degrees. The hospital was referred to as an award winning hospital. The article suggested that he received lackluster and substandard care from racially biased medical personnel. Considering the events of that day, one can only imagine the process of conferring award on individuals and institutions. His experience began with the nurse

Discrimination and the differential quality of medical care African-Americans receive are seen in all levels of professional healthcare workers. Dr. Tweedy, a prominent psychiatrist and author of New York Times Bestseller A Black Man in a White Coat, has made claims about the difficulties and differences in healthcare treatment quality African-Americans receive (Weintraub, 2016). Studies from many medical professionals show that African-Americans face lesser quality and differential treatment due to social stigma and racial biases, whether these patients are in the Emergency Department, or seen by different health care professionals, such as registered nurses and surgical clinicians (Pletcher et. al, 2008; Haider et. al, 2015). The accumulation of discrimination, racial biases, and communication barriers between African-American patients and physicians are the reasons why African-Americans receive differential quality in medical care. The most effective way to improve and decrease these quality differences is to be proactive and educate health care workers by improving interpersonal skills and increasing awareness and cultural sensitivity training in both current and future healthcare professional workers.

Something that stuck in my mind about this article is when the author described her own experience as both a woman and a black person. She describes how her colleague and her had prepared to stand together if there were any racial issues regarding their

The title of the current event news is Hospital’ing while black: New study shows black people receive cold shoulders from doctors. In the article, author Clutch brings attention to how people of color are treated in American hospitals. A study by the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management found that doctors treat their white patients better than their black patients. Black actors were used in the study to pretend to be patients with serious medical conditions. The findings revealed that when communicating and interacting with patients, doctors showed little sympathy towards their black patients. For example, the doctors often touch, stood closer, and made eye contact with their white patients, but not with their black patients. What is more,