Black women say their health care concerns are dismissed. And data shows 45% of younger women feel their pain isn’t taken seriously.
Cynthia Guest is 57-years-old and has never had a Black doctor.
And it’s not because she doesn’t want one.
As a sergeant in South Bend, Indiana, Guest didn’t pick the primary care doctor she was assigned more than 20 years ago. Like many Americans, her health insurance dictated what providers she could see within a network.
Guest describes her doctor as a nice, country, white woman with a Southern drawl like Reba McEntire. The old school physician often asks how she’s doing and what concerns she has. The problem isn’t how polite and respectful her doctor is, it’s the fact that concern after concern is dismissed and labeled as something to keep an eye on.
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