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Florida Atlantic University Undergraduate Law Journal

College

College of Arts and Letters

Keywords

Systematic oppression, Medical discrimination, High death rate, Minority community, Black women, Maternal mortality, White women, Medical professionals, Ignore minorities, People of Color, Medical testing, Generational trauma, Tuskegee Syphilis experiment, Pain tolerance, Symptom dismissal, Legal solutions, Medical education, Racial bias, Equal healthcare, Healthcare policies, Patient complaints, Trust in healthcare, Preventable deaths

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Systematic oppression through medical discrimination has left a high rate of death in the minority community, with Black women having 2.6 times the rate of maternal mortality than White women. Medical professionals ignore minorities at a higher rate than White people. People of Color have been used as testers for medical professionals and reap the generational trauma of it, such as subjects of the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment passing it to their children. Even more, doctors today are taught that Black people have a “higher pain tolerance than other races,” so their symptoms are often dismissed. Legal solutions must be implemented to combat this issue and change the education given to the new generation of doctors in America. This can be remedied by getting rid of teaching about specific races and how they show pain, promoting programs on equal healthcare, and policies of investigating all complaints or reports from patients. Without new laws and policies that instill trust in healthcare professionals, we risk more preventable deaths for People of Color.

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