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Unsmooth7439 @lemmy.world
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Patients need doctors who look like them. Can medicine diversify without affirmative action?
  • I will say that when I had doctors who looked like me, they almost always treated me like shit (for example, an emergency room physician practically assaulted me while performing an arterial blood draw because he didn't like that I was pushing back against his dismissing my medical complaints).

    Conversely, most of the doctors that did not look like me treated me very well and listened when I needed to discuss whatever health issue concerned me.

    All of this to say that while it would be nice to see more people from underrepresented backgrounds enter professions such as medicine at the physician level, patients who look like their providers are not automatically going to be treated better. It will always be about who is a good human and practices good medicine, regardless of their background.

  • www.reuters.com Colombian ex-soldier pleads guilty in plot to kill Haitian president

    A retired Colombian army officer pleaded guilty in a U.S. court on Thursday to conspiring and supporting a plot to kill Haitian President Jovenel Moise, shot dead in his bedroom two years ago, a brazen assassination that created a destabilizing power vacuum.

    Colombian ex-soldier pleads guilty in plot to kill Haitian president
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    ‘One day I hope to hug you in heaven,’ US nurse tells kidnappers who held her for 13 days in Haiti

    www.cnn.com 'One day I hope to hug you in heaven,' US nurse tells kidnappers who held her for 13 days in Haiti | CNN

    American nurse Alix Dorsainvil gladly would give medical care to the captors who held her and her daughter hostage for nearly two weeks this summer in Haiti, she said in her first public comments since the pair’s release this month.

    'One day I hope to hug you in heaven,' US nurse tells kidnappers who held her for 13 days in Haiti | CNN
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    apnews.com A gang in Haiti opens fire on a crowd of parishioners trying to rid the community of criminals

    A powerful gang in Haiti has opened fire on a large group of parishioners led by a pastor as they marched through a community armed with machetes to rid the area of gang members.

    A gang in Haiti opens fire on a crowd of parishioners trying to rid the community of criminals
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    They really named Black Noir "Black Black"
  • I seem to remember an interview that he did years ago (on the old Arsenio Hall Show), where Arnold stated his last name meant "Black Farmer". If I can find a clip, I'll come back and edit this comment with it.