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Racial bias in medicine is DEADLY and one of the foremost reasons for the US' appalling maternal and fetal mortality rates.

It's not that medical providers don't know what dangers lurk in pregnancy and childbirth, it's that they don't give a shit when the signs are right there in front of them.
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Shakima Tozay was 37 years old and six months pregnant when a nurse, checking the fetal heart rate of the baby boy she was carrying, referred to him as “a hood...
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Prenatal & birthing care are problematic anyway, with a focus that often ignores the pregnant person and dismisses their concerns. All of which are exponentially worse for BBIMP as a result of racial bias that not only dismisses their concerns but actively works to demean and debase them.
12:50 PM - Dec 12, 2023
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My daughter and grandson almost died due to preeclampsia which resulted in his delivery by emergency C-section at 32 weeks. It's long, infuriating story of medical incompetence.

But she is white. She had family with medical backgrounds who were able to advocate for her.

Privilege.
12:52 PM - Dec 12, 2023
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