But if I said I’m white and my doctor should be too, I’d be called a racist.......
Well, I am a male and prefer my doctor to be female. I don’t care her skin color as long as she is educated in the US and speaks native American English. People should see who they prefer and leave the racism and all at home.
>>Being a black female who is overweight automatically puts you in a diabetic category,<<
Yes.
They call that a “diagnostic” based on “medical science.”
ALL obese people are diagnosed as pre-diabetic and rightly so. It may be that blacks also tend towards diabetes. The combination is an almost certainty.
Medical schools will soon have to start teaching specialty courses in treatment of black women, in contrast to treatment of humans in general.
We’re all the same and deserve to be treated the same, right up until some perpetually aggrieved person and/or group demands to be treated differently. But only treat them differently with regard to the things they specify. treat them the same about everything else. Until they change the rules again.
Sheesh!
Pre-diabetic? Post-sane.
Don’t laugh.
There is now a new thing called “cultural competence” and med schools must show they teach it.
As a young-ish celibate female, most doctors I see want to test me for pregnancy and STDs. It has nothing to do with skin color, it has to do with doctors who put so much trust in statistics that they forget the patient is an individual.
Find a doctor who actually listens, and a lot of the aggravation goes away.
Only an idiot want “affirmative action” when it comes to life and death decisions. I am white and, if I needed a neurosurgeon, I would be more than happy to have Ben Carson to preform surgery. Abilityand character, not color or religion, should drive our decisions.
I wouldn’t want a young g person for a doctor. No children like Doogie Hauser. Want the see some grey hair.
My doctor always says I’m pre-diabetic.
What does he know?
My physiology doesn’t fit anything normal and it hasn’t changed since I joined the Navy in 1962.
In 1962 the military doctors made me get a note from 2 civilian specialists before they’d take me.
My heart rate is 40, my blood pressure is 75/45, my total cholesterol is 85, my glucose is 101, and my HDL is 18.
It usually takes a doctor about 3 to 4 years to come to grips with the fact that I’m healthy with abnormal system.
I’m competent and my doctor should be too.
Standards are rayciss. We should outlaw them.
#blackdocsmatter
The affirmative action she deserves.
I actually had a white male doctor the other day (Mostly east Asians and Indians around here). It’s nice having someone with a similar culture to my own for a doc.
Always working to drive a wedge between them and white people. Most blacks don’t think this way but those that do are disgusting.
> micro-aggressions that can occur are deadly
So can being stupid you Effing moron. Go buy the doctor you want and STFU you lazy POS. Get off my tax dollars you filthy scum.
>”Being a black female who is overweight automatically puts you in a diabetic category,” she says.
Get off your lazy butt, work for a living and quit thinking we that work for a living owe you anything. Wasted human flesh should have been educated instead of pampered.
meh
Reasons for bad health
If you believe so strongly that you should have a black doctor, because you are black, then why don’t you go to medical school and become a black doctor?