Linda Villarosa Promo Clip
Clip: Season 6 Episode 6 | 1m 6sVideo has Closed Captions
Linda Villarosa explains the outcomes of poor treatment of Black Americans in health care.
Linda Villarosa explains how poor treatment of Black Americans in health care leads to medical hesitancy. Usually not displayed in such explicit terms as other contexts, this kind of racism is in many ways ingrained in American medicine and has led to so many Black people being reluctant of medical treatment.
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Linda Villarosa Promo Clip
Clip: Season 6 Episode 6 | 1m 6sVideo has Closed Captions
Linda Villarosa explains how poor treatment of Black Americans in health care leads to medical hesitancy. Usually not displayed in such explicit terms as other contexts, this kind of racism is in many ways ingrained in American medicine and has led to so many Black people being reluctant of medical treatment.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Conflating race and class sort of obscures this key point that you're trying to teach everyone and correct for.
And one of the factors inside it is that Black people are afraid to go to the doctor and there are really good reasons for that.
- Yes.
When we used to talk about Black people being afraid to go to the doctor, it used to be this discussion of the Tuskegee experiment.
- Yeah.
- And certainly, the Tuskegee experiment was terrible but most people that are afraid to go to the doctor are not thinking about the Tuskegee experiment.
They're thinking about what happened to them the last time they entered the healthcare system.
They're thinking about what happened to a loved one, what happened to a neighbor.
And so there is real fear and real reason for fear because of discrimination in the healthcare system among doctors and everyone, from the person who greets you at the door all the way to the person who does surgery.
And it's not a kind of explicit, you know, Proud Boys kind of racism.
It's a kind of racism that just is part of our society.
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