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I'm Black and My Doctor Should Be Too
Vice ^ | 1/3/2017 | Alexander Hardy

Posted on 01/03/2017 7:11:01 PM PST by bkopto

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To: bkopto

So the justification for obesity is “Big Mama invited me to Sunday dinner” and it is a microagression to suggest a change be made.

Yet another reason medical care should hurt a person’s wallet - if you are not investing in yourself you end up living a deteriorating lifestyle waiting for a magic pill.


61 posted on 01/04/2017 3:12:10 AM PST by greatvikingone
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To: bkopto

there is truth to this article. I have two adopted black daughters who had the same constellations of symptoms. They had PCOS but did not exhibit the primary physical symptom known to white doctors THEY DIDNT GROW FACIAL HAIR.

No physician we saw ever thought about the fact that many blacks don’t grow facial hair. And if there are not many follicles on the face there would be no hair.

the girls were misdiagnosed for years.


62 posted on 01/04/2017 4:22:20 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: bkopto
micro-aggressions

I just knew it ...

63 posted on 01/04/2017 4:25:28 AM PST by NorthMountain (Northmountain)
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To: Ellendra

The STD questools may be a state and/or Fed requirement. I got a gun question once. Got a ration when I refused to answer, then found a different doc.


64 posted on 01/04/2017 4:28:00 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: jennychase

Yeah and with the price of labor in India, we could all probably have 3 nurses round the clock.
And no medical-legal climate like here, or all the charges for high technology, NICUs, etc.
Wonder where she would rather be when things go bad with a delivery?

She may have been in a private pay hospital there - I had heard if someone goes in to a poor hospital for an illness or surgery, the family has to provide the bedside care AND pay for supplies or bring them with!


65 posted on 01/04/2017 4:35:29 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: bkopto

Perhaps she would prefer checking a chicken’s guts to see if there is anything wrong with her. In her case they’d need a fat chicken to be more accurate.


66 posted on 01/04/2017 4:40:58 AM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: bkopto

The medical profession does put people into disease boxes. A friend of mine had a chronic cough and they told her it was caused by her intake of second hand smoke. Nothing could be done.

She was visiting us over the holidays and it sounded and acted like and allergy to me. I gave her some Claritin and her cough stopped after three days.


67 posted on 01/04/2017 8:23:40 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: freedumb2003
" It doesn't seem as strange to explain to your fellow black American doctor why it's hard to stick to your new cardiac diet when Big Mama is inviting you to Sunday dinner," Creighton says..."

Yeah, because no white guy ever has had family pressure to eat too much. But the bottom line - the Big Bottom line - is that excuses won't heal you. This white male doesn't enjoy dieting, especially during holidays - but I do it. Or else. Welcome to something called "LIFE"!

68 posted on 01/04/2017 8:31:38 AM PST by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of infants, ruled by their emotion)
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To: bkopto
Choose a physician from Maharry College or Vanderbilt. Enough said.
69 posted on 01/04/2017 10:53:32 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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