treatment. My loved one says they’ve experienced the same patterns of condescension and disrespect from emergency rooms to state-of-the-art facilities. All they wanted was for someone to listen to them tell their story and to show them empathy. “Toward the Black patients especially there’s an attitude of ‘Don’t even talk to me,’” they explained. “It’s a form of remote incarceration. You’re really not trying to deal with the person in a human way.” Doctors gave my loved one a diagnosis that was so ambiguous and confusing, it seemed, to them, like “it would have covered about half the
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