Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith
Posted on 02/22/2021 5:59:13 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
It's the story of a Black man in Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith's own community of New Haven, Connecticut, that illustrates why she is so determined to bridge racial health disparities.
The man had been living with chronic diseases, including diabetes, and was on dialysis. He used a wheelchair to get around.
When he developed a fever and shortness of breath last April, he tried to get tested for Covid-19, Nunez-Smith said, without success.
Within 24 hours, he was dead. Tests later confirmed he did, in fact, have SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.
"It struck me very deeply," Nunez-Smith said. The image of the man and his loved ones trying to get help for him has stayed with her.
It is now Nunez-Smith's job to fix the system for disadvantaged communities in America. She's taken on the challenge as the director of the White House's Covid-19 Health Equity Task Force.
"A system under pressure or under stress,” she said, “will fail faster for some than for others."
Nunez-Smith left the Virgin Islands after high school. She attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, then Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, now Sidney Kimmel Medical College, where she earned her medical degree.
It was around this time that she saw first-hand the racial and ethnic disparities in the health care system.
Nunez-Smith focuses her research on "promoting health and health care equity for structurally marginalized populations."
This does not mean Nunez-Smith sits in an office at Yale doing research — far from it. She collaborates directly with communities.
"You have to show up. You have to listen. You have to learn. And you have to be humble with equity work," Nunez-Smith said. "Communities are the experts in what they need."
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Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith
In other words, whites to the back of the line. To make it “fair”.
Can this so called doctor prove that the man was denied care because of his skin color? If not, then she need to buzz off.
As intended.
So a “Black man” ate himself into diabetes, dialysis and a wheelchair but it’s because of RACISM that his decrepit body couldn’t fight off COVID?
If he died the very day after he tried to get the test, what would it have mattered even if he was tested that day?
BARF
“”When he developed a fever and shortness of breath last April, he tried to get tested for Covid-19,””
That early in the “game” last year, I don’t think tests were even being given. Instead, we were being indoctrinated on “washing hands and wearing masks” as I recall. He was chronically ill and probably not out and about, so where did he get COVID?? No doubt one of the early ones to make the list of “with COVID” and not “from” it...
Life imitates art: another evil Dr. Smith.
“Equity” = Stealing from Whitey and giving to Blackie.
So she has a solution for pedo joe’s proclamation that hiss-panics and poc from rural area and inner city areas are two stoopid to figer out how to make an aperntment on one of them new fangled computer things? Not every doctor finishes at the top of the class............ Here’s a tip doc. Special treatment is NOT equal treatment. Than again, these days that isn’t in the mix.
How would having the COVID test have kept the patient alive?
How many Americans of all colors wanted COVID tests.
Physicians treat patients on presumptions. This patient would have been treated with or without the test if he was extremely ill. This is another person who knows nothing about healthcare but thinks they could do a better job by paralyzing the system? The truth is this person thinks they can better themselves, advance their career and they don’t give a damn about the people or their care.
A, now standard, NBC puff piece that has zero rational thought or justification in it for the point it is trying to make
Last April, I could have gone to any number of testing facilities FOR FREE!
Looks like a male.
The Left always changes words/meanings, as you know. The ‘equity’ instead of equality thing....I think is pissing anybody with a brain off. This hag with the horse hair sewed onto her gross, balding scalp is rather transparent. Virgin Islands. Gee, sheheit….must be the best and brightest!
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