This is what white supremacy AND anti-Blackness looks like…so I’ll say this AGAIN…don’t tell me shit about the how “progressive” Medicare 4 All is WITHOUT sharing an accompanying strategy that addresses MEDICAL RACISM
Also further proof that the conversation around, and the overturning of, Roe v Wade has ALWAYS been about preserving white birth rates
"How Serena Williams Saved Her Own Life"
https://www.elle.com/life-love/a39586444/how-serena-williams-saved-her-own-life/
Great Post, thanks.
Knowing what some of the assumptions are, the wrong opinions, what the frequent dismissal of concerns will sound like, can save your life.
A LOT of work needs doing to overcome ignorance, willful or not.
But Serena had to save her life from medical misinformation - as she was dying of the conditions medical staff was ignorant, and arrogant, about.
Prepare protect loved ones, fight for change.
Serena moments post birth.
"In the other room, I spoke to the nurse. I told her: “I need to have a CAT scan of my lungs bilaterally, and then I need to be on my heparin drip.” She said, “I think all this medicine is making you talk crazy.” I said, “No, I’m telling you what I need: I need the scan immediately. And I need it to be done with dye.”
. . . . I persisted: “I’m telling you, this is what I need.” Finally, the nurse called my doctor...
@kevinrns @KimCrayton1 serena is a stone cold badass and 1. she shouldn’t have had to do that, 2. it is absolutely unreasonable to expect anyone to do that
you can’t foist the job of medical expertise onto the patients.
additionally, i am an expert in my own disorders & i have to assert myself as a patient… and it is usually NOT EFFECTIVE. they can choose to ignore anything and everything.
You could not be more correct, its bad medicine, unreasonable, racist.
Allies, friends and communities that care must do the work to repair bad information, bad medical instruction, repair racist sexist research
Serena saved her life.
"Being heard and appropriately treated was the difference between life or death for me;" Serena writes,
"I know those statistics would be different if the medical establishment listened to every Black woman’s experience."
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