Independent Research Week Eleven, Post One (Notes)

Health Disparities in Medicine Based on Race - Richard Garcia 

• Black infant mortality is 2x higher than white infant mortality
• Black men with chest pain wait longer for EKG than white men
• Black and Mexican men with longer bone fractures wait longer for lower doses of pain medication
• Black children with apendicitus go without painmedication at higher rates than white children
• "This is flesh I'm talking about" - Toni Morrison
• Race is not a medical problem, its an American problem
• Age, race, gender listed when describing patients
• What is the value of race in medicine
• On Race and Medicine - written by speaker
• Jazz - individual is key (same for people in medicine?)
• interdisciplinarity within the medical field to create shared understandings
• only man in three generations to never go to prison
• rhetorical triad - aristotle
• jazz should sound different each time, classical should sound the same
• need more diversity in health care work
• need MORE than that
• Fannie Lou Hamer - "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."