Now it's Rosa Parks - Post in the AFAm Group

[JustAnotherGen]

12. Not really- its because of personally held racism by doctors - including black doctors

ETA - Please stop 'imagining' our REALITIES!

Race in Medical Care: Skin Color Matters with Patient Care
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Health/story?id=3401076

According to the study, those biases affected the treatment the doctors would have given the two patients.

The patients were not actually real people, but rather computer-generated images seen by the doctors only on a monitor.

This isn't the first study to find that whites get better medical care than blacks.

National Medical Association president Dr. Albert Morris said it has been demonstrated multiple times in the past that whites receive better care and get care sooner than their African-American counterparts

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/07/health/healthcare-racial-bias/
Training doctors to spot their own racial biases

"They told us he would be out of anesthesia in a few minutes," she remembered. "The minutes became an hour, the hour became two hours."

She and her husband called the surgeon in a panic. He said that Khary had come out of anesthesia violently — thrashing and flailing about. He told Lazarre that with most young people Khary's age, there wouldn't have been a problem. The doctors and nurses would have gently held him down.

"But with our son, since he was so 'large and powerful,' they were worried he might injure the medical staff," Lazarre said. "So they had to keep sending him back under the anesthesia."

Those are just two examples - but you are way off the mark with that one. We've had these discussions UMPTEEN times in this group and I won't give anymore examples. Read back a few months and you will find the those posts.