When I first came into this class I honestly knew nothing about the racism in the medical field, I knew that racism is still heavily around today but did not think of it in the medical field. After reading the article about the privileges a white person had, it really got me think and gave me new insight. The readings and discussion really helped in learning about what is going in America’s health field. It wasn’t just reading a textbook or stats, it was real life people that racism has extremely affected. I was interested in learning about the Tuskegee study and about Henrietta simply because I never knew about them. The more we talked about it and read into the book the more it opened my eyes up to think, these problems were not back in some caveman time, they were in in the last century. Our discussion didn’t just stay at one opinion but by talking about the books in sections it really helped develop and make dynamic arguments about the stories. I also found it beneficial to read not only the patients side of the problems but also the doctor’s view point with Tweedy’s book. I wish we would have had a topic that look into was if other countries have the same issues as America does. If they do, how they handle these situations and if we could learn from them or they learn from us. I think it would be interesting if maybe at the end we draw a comparison to other countries to America.
I think the most important lesson we learned this class; these issues are still here today and are not getting fixed. There needs to be change and it starts with the people it’s not something that can be just talked about and forgotten but to be acted upon. Some of the stories we read in class I can see happening today or tomorrow, that there is an issue that is not being talked about. There has been changed but not enough, there are still people today facing life and death medical problems and not getting the proper care just because they are not white. This was so important to me because it opened my eyes and changed my perspective on issues.
The final conclusion I have is that we as people are terrible as treating other humans. That on paper and with laws we pass makes America seem like we treat people fairly but, in reality, we do a terrible job. The fact we have people not getting the necessities to live because of a gene, that a person has no control over. This class brings to light the question of where is America going!? How can we as a society say we are the land of the free yet we hold people back and put barriers up. There needs to a dramatic change in our way of viewing people
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