Patient/community members discuss race and racism. (2023) Speaker 1: Do you think it’ll be better if you went to a doctor who had the Black grandma and said, “Yes. That’s how they get. I get it.” Or even a white doctor who could say, “This is how they get and it’s fine. I don’t feel […]
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Poem by Morgan Parker posted on Poets.org. Copyright © 2018 by Morgan Parker. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on July 2, 2018, by the Academy of American Poets.https://poets.org/poem/it-was-summer-now-and-colored-people-came-out-sunshine
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Patients/community members discuss access to care and race and racism. (2023) Oh, that’s easy. They don’t want to do business in minority areas. That’s my honest opinion. Now, on top of all of that that I just said, now add in as a single male, it’s hard to even go places that you feel comfortable.
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss race and racism. (2023) I think we need to be open to having conversations about [race]. When someone says something insensitive, then you should call them out because maybe they don’t realize and somebody needs to tell them. And if we don’t tell them, then they’re never going to change their
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Patients/community members discuss pain and race/racism. (2023) Yeah, they do because they think that I’m going to put it like this. They think because we of color we can tolerate pain more than Caucasian people can. And that’s a lie. I don’t know where they get that study from. That’s a lie. We all bleed
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss fear and social determinants of health. (2023) I do have a patient… Sorry, I didn’t know if anyone… I have a patient that is Caucasian, but similar situation where she went to the dentist, had a tooth extracted, had so much pain, didn’t go back. She’s still I think in her
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Patients/community members discuss race and racism. (2023) I definitely think it’s a possibility. I definitely feel there can be some maybe discriminatory appearances or even … It’s more an undertone kind of thing. Especially, as African-Americans, I think so. For sure. First of all, we were not really encouraged a lot like me, a lot
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Poem by Henry J. Morro published in Californian Poets, Part 3. Interlitq. https://www.interlitq.org/californiafeature3/henry-morro/job.php
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