Posted on 03/16/2023 12:42:15 PM PDT by grundle
This article from the Grio starts out with the following:
Black patients modify speech, dress up to reduce medical bias, survey shows
Black Californians report adjusting their appearance, changing behavior, minimizing questions and signaling to providers that they are educated to reduce chance of discrimination in hospitals and doctors’ offices.
A young mother in California’s Antelope Valley bathes her children and dresses them in neat clothes, making sure they look their very best — at medical appointments. “I brush their teeth before they see the dentist. Just little things like that to protect myself from being treated unfairly,” she told researchers.
I always brush my teeth, take a shower, and put on clean clothes before I go to the dentist, or any other medical appointment.
I don’t see what race has to do with it.
Why do some people insist on seeing racism everywhere?
When I was in the military there was a hygienist that everybody went to over at the army base and she was a PYT. The joke was to eat oreos before a visit so it would take longer for her to clean your teeth...
How about protecting yourself from being misdiagnosed?
Bad breath? Body odor? Dirty teeth? Oily skin?
These could easily be symptoms of something that could throw off a doctor.
-PJ
Sir Charles looks so good in that photo that I know that he smells so good. (And i have long covid anosmia)
True story, University of Maryland, sophomore year, roommate for two weeks for this skinny white boy was best smelling person i’ve ever known, a first gay person before anyone was gay. Big black guy from Baltimore, walking around in a purple bathrobe, wearing a Burger King paper crown, telling everyone his name was King Jerome and that he was looking to find his clone.
That has the salubrious effect of reducing work needed when you do visit the dentist.
Strange that bathing and teeth-brushing would be presented as “special” activities prior to doctor or dentist appointments. YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO DO THAT ALL THE TIME!!! (If you only do it for appointments, the judgement you’re trying to avoid is probably valid.)
What has 88 legs and 7 teeth?
The front row of Johnny Cash concert
Hey, dat be Window Wiper Willie! Ah know heem.
Answer: because they are racists themselves.
I know an old black dude that flosses his teeth with yarn.
Lots of doctors look down on people without lots of money... They don’t discriminate - no matter your color - they want to see wealth.
I listened to a doctor go on and on about ‘Jesus cases’ (poor people who might not be able to pay their bills) then asked him if HE was paid no matter what (hospital doctor) and he said, ‘yeah, costs were passed on to the folks with insurance’. So I told him since he was being paid - and I was one of the people with great insurance, and I was getting hit up for the costs, I expected him to be nice to the people who were poor. Really doctors can be A-holes.
Ha. When I was growing up, my parents dressed us up for Dr visits so that we didn’t look like a hoople. Lol
Same here (though the shower might be the night before) but if I can brush before seeing the dentist I do. Who wants to subject their dentist to either food or coffee breath?!
How is that racist or white? It’s just courtesy!
He’s 91
I pay no attention to what racist idiots think.
I like to eat garlic and sardines on my way over to my appointment. I exhale on his little mirror too.
I brush my teeth every morning and every evening. If a dentist happens to look in my mouth between those two events, so be it.
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