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Some ppl dont have a choice

It’s not just about that particular hospital. It’s about Dr’s opinions about black women across the board.

The opioid hysteria is in every hospital especially the E.R. Nurses will immediately label you as a junkie if you say that you have pain.

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That staff was very well read, very profound in practicing their oath of the promised conduct, "to save lives and treat people as humans." They were great professionals. All American hospitals should practice such medical hospitality and professionalism with service, at all times! I'm glad you received goodness while entrusted to them.

Which hospital?

@@tikdoe7563Kaiser in Roseville

@@sophiesophisticatedlife7656 Oh, I thought you meant Cedars Sinai Hospital which they say is awful.

I think someone in that situation should stand firm and be stern when talking with medical staff. I think family members should record the interactions with the staff for their records. This is sad and unfortunate. I remember Judge Hatchett lost her daughter in law after she had a c-section. She had internal bleeding. It’s heartbreaking and angering because this shouldn’t ever happen when it can be prevented. Thank God you had an advocate cause so many may not understand that they have to be the voice /patient advocate for family members. RIP to all those who lost family members.😔🫂🙏🏾🕊️💐❤

@@Sugastack in turn, medical staff should be able to record abusive relatives that have no clue what's going on.

@Anita Kristensen, I have been a RN >20 years and I can tell you that the quality of medical staff( nurses and docs) have deteriorated to a shameful level. I stayed by my mother's side day and night when she was hospitalized. While there is a conversation that needs to be had about the abuse that staff experience, do not indirectly dismiss a legitimate patient/family complaint.

@@anitakristensen4679 I do realize it goes both ways. I have worked in the medical field for many years as well and have alerted the appropriate staff when concerns needed to be addressed.

You are absolutely right 🇬🇧🙏🏽

It’s ridiculous that you had to go to two different hospitals for relief! I know that the VA has really cracked down on not giving opioids, muscle relaxers and anxiety medication thanks to the opioid hysteria.

I find it sad that there are no BLK owned hospitals or church run medical centres . Anyway I'm happy to see her well

I had a bad experience in a VA Emergency Room and will never return. Waited for hours (in the middle of the night), just to be sent home in pain and given a laxative. I felt ignored and dismissed by the doctor. The next morning, my fever worsened and I was nauseous so I went to another doctor. I was immediately given an IV with antibiotics and told I had diverticulitis (an infection in my colon). Grateful to God the doctor that treated me just listened and figured out the problem. Plus she addressed my pain appropriately too...hallelujah.

Its not just racism, its misogyny. Do black male patients get treated the same way or just the women? Its very common for male doctors to dismiss female pain. When female health became a business and went from the hands of midwives to male doctors, do you know how many women died needlessly after childbirth, from infections, for centuries, just because doctors didnt disinfect/wash their tools? Happens to women, doesnt affect them, they dont care. 🙄

I think y'all don't understand I'm a light skin pr and black women but I look more pr and they treated me the same it's not a black or white issue they only act this way because they are pressured by there manager to move fast and take care of so many patients at one time they don't have time to treat pain only time to treat people that are dying 😭😭😭😭

You can reverse that by going raw vegan for a while and juice. Plus praying and obedience to Yahweh will heal all diseases.

I stopped going as well. It’s not even a every now and then thing it’s literally EVERY time I go. So now I just refuse to go. Last time I was there nurse would dig in the trash then come to adjust my IV every single time! When I called her out about her filth she grabbed 2 other doctors to mock me they all entered and stopped by the hand sanitizer rubbing it in as they looked at me in the eyes with cruel smirks then walked back out! I was done!

Find a doctor that will listen and that you trust. If you have an auto immune disease there is just some things that need to be monitored

@@citizencoy4393 they are racist pigs in white coats

Lupus is one of the hardest diagnoses. My passion started at 18 they wouldn't take me seriously until my mid 30s though my mom had THREE autoimmune disorders. (Lupus one of them.) Keep going and have them chart their refusal to anything u request that they won't do.

J. Marion Sims would experiment on black slaves! This is 2023 and they still look at black women as slaves to experiment on.

Nope, they have a license to labour/work. Everybody isn't doing so with a servant's heart.

I'm sure those doctors aren't humans. Life gonna be so much better when humans are in rulership. Smh. When devil are ruling they are dismissive of blk ppl.

Blk ppl aren’t even given name brand drugs and they judge us based on the addict behavior that they see in their yt patients thinking if this is what yt ppl r doing the blk ppl must really be getting down and it is all a lie!

They prescribe plenty to whites, which is why they're the group with the highest rates of drug abuse and overdose.

@@silvernblack21 the woman in the video I mentioned is white. Medical professionals are being taught to prescribe medications as long as they're not opioids. They're supposed to ignore pain and lecture the person about how "dangerous" they are. Even veterinarians have been forced to not treat the animals pain because the owner could take the pain medication instead. It's legalized torture!

Just like that doctor did who practiced hysterectomies on black women without pain meficibe back in tge 20's/30's, so they could safely perform it on white women. Racism is what lies behind this treatment. Regardless of whether its bias or ignorance on part of medical system, its cruel and these so called professionals need to be thrown out of tge system. After my first knee replacement, the nurses put me in an empty room without monitors, a phone, a call button or light. Thse white nurses stuck me in a recovery room and left me for hours as the meds wore iff AFTER A KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY! After that final insult, I will never again trust in white medical professionals. I see them for what they are. I bring my heakth care oroxy so she came to my appointments leading up to the second knee surgery and stayed at the hospital the whole time.

Its not really because some [blacks] are addicts. That's what they say. There are more white opiod addicts who get prescribed opiods more so than black folks which is why the opiod problem got out of hand. They treat us this way out of hate. Its not incompetence. it's racism.

It is actually the ⚪️ physicians that are the non-human ones, trying to treat Black humans. Their mistreatment of us is deliberate. They continuously abuse their power and responsibility in healthcare. This is deliberate.

@@staywell7217 - Of course, the dehumanizing of Black people is deliberate. It's the reason (s) many Black people don't seek medical attention until they are about to die.

Says there are 3 responding comments but none are showing. Wtf

Most hospitals feel that blacks have a higher pain level idk why but our pain don't look like yt pain so they don't take us seriously

Not just white doctors. Asian and Indian doctors can also carry that bias.

There may be some science behind the Asians. Some Asians don’t metabolize opioids well and may either need a higher dose or multimodality pain control. Although science may back up the Asian-pain theory they should not be disregarded if in pain. There is no evidence saying that black people don’t feel pain so I don’t know why these doctors keep this BS up. I’ve also had to advocate for my black patients as well. Also told the patient don’t let up on them. If you’re in pain you’re in pain . That Tylenol ain’t helping . That 0.25 mg of dilaudid that I had to beg to get ain’t helping.

I'm so sorry you had to experience that🙏

😢😢 Awwww. I am soo sorry that you went through that. I hope you are fine today.

Oh God!! Prayers for you! I can’t even imagine it. This could very well be a lawsuit.

OMG we always took the "products of conception" out of the room when I worked in obgyn. Smh

me too thank God and God bless her family

My God😮

He was trying to sacrifice you, so he can cash in.

My first labour was horrible times 1000, so much so that I vowed never to have another. 11 years later had unplanned pregnancy and my first order of business was to ask God to lead me to a good OBGYN and He did. ❤❤

That is terrible. So African people don't feel pain huh? Cutting into people we don't need anything huh? I would have beaten his a** and told him caucasian people don't feel pain either.

I hope you and your husband sue that hospital. This sounds demonic, he tried to kill you 🤬

Bleeding excessively…Staying the night would have been a good choice.

Wow

Jesus

how r u now?

Sick these healthcare professionals should be held accountable.

Some do but some don't give a damn how they treat patients.

,Yes! I also encourage this and encourage everyone to listen to their body, eat a healthy diet exercise regularly and take key supplements the body needs as you age. At 69 yo I have practiced these habits and feel as I did at 25 yo, weigh the same as I did at 25 yo, and am on no pharmaceuticals and have no medical issues. I have 3 adult children I raised mostly as a single working parent and as a Black female Board Certified MD I realized in the late 1980s that "Medicine was no longer "Healthcare" but was fast becoming a "Sick care" model that benefits financially from people being chronically ill. Today's Medicine is NOT controlled by your doctors who are treating you but the Corporations that own the hospitals, practices and clinics Pharmaceutical companies and the Gov't offices such as CDC, FDA, NIH, Insurance companies etc. Doctors are only EMPLOYEES of the system and are REQUIRED to follow protocol designed by the system which basically are for the purpose of profit. Doctors are not getting "rich circumstances but are pushed to work long hours sometimes having to see as many as 45 patients/day during working hours. I have taught and encouraged many people to practice self- managed care over the past 20 yrs. years but unfortunately it mostly falls on deaf ears because !people lack "self discipline" and would rather trust the doctor to "fix them. We have to do better

Yes we do

If you don't mind me asking, do you still have the stones? My experience going to the ER was a lot similar to yours. I had a kidney stone. While waiting to be seen for an hour and a half, I threw up while in extreme pain sitting in a wheelchair because i couldn't walk. My husband was trying his best to have them hurry up and see me. I ended up developing sepsis and being in ICU for a week. They eventually removed the stone also. I thank God everyday that I'm here to share my story, but the thought of going to the ER after that still haunts me.

@@DJones1642 OMG 😱 I’m so happy you made it through all that! Yes I have it. It was a small stone that caused all that pain! My heart hurts for you because I didn’t know that could happen! That’s VERY dangerous and scary. I’ve been drinking 6 bottles of water a day and at least one with lemon in the water. The doctors told me lemon water and ACV water helps pass them. Mine passed in two days because it was almost to my bladder. I’m all about natural healing that’s why he told me that. I’m all for natural healing but BABY natural wasn’t going to do anything for that pain lol. I made SURE to save those pain pills just in case lol. I’m not begging for them if it happens again lol 😂. I don’t like drugs but know when I need them. Have you healed from your hospital stay?! I pray you never have to go through that again.

@@tamarar.4642 Yes, it was a process having to learn how to do everything all over again. I had to learn how to walk- I mostly had to rebuild the strength in my legs because that's what I lost in the process. It was very scary. They ended up putting a stent in me the morning after because the stone had got stuck in my urethra causing the sepsis. I remember the doc telling me that I may not make it because they had me on oxygen & I believe pain meds. *Worst words I never want to hear again* They had never performed that on someone w/those things. But fast forward, even after rehabilitation, and getting the stone out, I was fearful for a while! Haunted by what I went through! Like you, I was told to drink plenty of water and the same about the lemon. And to also avoid foods with oxalates.

Yes it depend on the state mines I live in Ohio my nurse make sure she came every 15m-1hr to check up on me and give me pain medication every 5hr after giving birth I was so sore she will wake me up to take pain medicine . me and my boyfriend was sleep she will come in and feed my baby and burp her for me the whole night they was so nice and caring like all the nurses was so nice to me it was the best experience I will do it all over again.

For real, im so over

Nah, it's happening all over. Not just in Texas. When I worked in Public Health, this was the main reason our BIPOC committee was established. We discussed it all the time in our meetings. The committee is made up of staff from various states. African American women are definitely experiencing this at higher rates. Health disparities, misconceptions, biases, whether we are talking about patient care or health insurance, it's just sad.

I've been a nurse for almost 21yrs. Every patient has the right to call a patient advocate regardless if you have insurance or not. Their job is to fight for you and you don't have to pay for it. It's your right once you walk into a hospital & accept care. Ask the secretary for the number but they should actually be posted in full view in every emergency waiting room & throughout the hospital.

Do your due diligence and find out yourself, then update us.

@@demekonrn,TY🙏

God did his miracle

They treat every person vof color bad even Latinos

They do Hispanics about as badly as they do us Black folks, which is why we need more options run by people of color.

@@silvernblack21 💯..

@@Ikw2 I can relate. Not comparing it

Its a shame that ANYONE seeking care is treated like this!

Omg, sorry to hear that. I’m sorry for your loss

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@@LifeAsTaayinka thank you very much. I still can’t believe this and it’s ver sad and devastating. 🙏🏾🙏🏾😇😇😇🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾😇😇😇😇😇we must fight for our health and treatment as colored people, all people poor etc

@@kanecierra8940 😊thank you. 😇😇🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

This happened to me also. It was terrible. Got sent home, vomiting, dizzy, headache and hardly able do anything. Had to be brought back later that same day and had to argue that something was wrong. They assumed I was med seeking. Ended up getting the blood patch procedure after a another day or so in hospital.

I had one too but it didn't show up until days after I was discharged. They gave me some big gigantical peach colored pills and I couldn't take them because I had a newborn and a 2 year old and I was a single mother and the pills made me tired.

The same thing happened to me plus my B/P was in the stroke zone and I had a post op infection. Thank God Hutzel Hospital treated me well.

We need to go after the CDC, DHHS and the DEA. Doctors are afraid to prescribe pain medication for fear of being arrested and losing everything. I don't understand why the DEA can decide what is too much medication when they don't have any medical knowledge whatsoever!

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Serena Williams is man how can she know what a women pregnant feels hahaa

I will exposed Serena and Venus with the video I found in 2014 on them I download it and I did send it out in 2015 on WhatsApp snd nobody did not had no interesting in it but when Joan Rivers came out about Michelle Obama in 2015 / 2016 he is a trangerder Serena and Venus videos was deleted but I have it downloaded since 2014 .They were born male .

I’m done having kids

@@ritawilliams2359 I swear. I do not trust these drs

I gave birth there and was kinda traumatizing. The nurses didn’t believe me when I was pushing . Trying to take oxygen from me after my baby was finally out. My black Doctor who delivered my baby told the nurses to leave me alone I can have oxygen. They was treating me like I didn’t know how I felt. Never again!!

I certainly hope that you filed a complaint! I'm so tired of hearing about people having verifiable health problems and being dismissed, treated like an addict and sent home to suffer. Did you go to another ER? What was your treatment for the discs?

@@sarcasticallyrearranged No I didn’t go to another ER after that I went home thinking to myself Well at least I’m diagnosed and know what’s wrong with my back, I researched treatment options for my back the next morning after I’d left a complaint with the state of Texas health dept which nothing resulted from except a callback for a report. I decided to go on bed rest to allow my back to heal and was bedridden for about 5 days and I ended up seeing an Orthopedic surgeon a couple weeks later who told me I could only maintain my back going forward with physical therapy and that surgery was too extreme at this stage.

@@starchildjess did PT solve the issue? I ask because I have that same problem.

@@sarcasticallyrearranged yes my back has healed up decently but only because I take it easy avoiding bending over and picking things up and I’ll do physically therapy when I feel flair ups when I over do my back, I can tell when my lower back starts to feel discomfort I remind myself to squat down, not bend over to pick something up and ever since this happened and I rested in bed flat for those 5 days, I’ve been pretty ok. I won’t let it get to where it was the night I went to the ER. This was like 9 months ago this happened.

For what? They ignore us to! Black this and that means nothing. My OBGYN was black. She was awful I had to switch hospitals AND doctors.

@@BMHBW1950 sorry to hear that I guess we just targets all the way around

Barbara Harris. I only go to white drs because I don't trust black ones.

Some of them are no better

All skin folk ain't kinfolk.

She blessed God and gave them to each other. This is what happens when you ask God to bless you with your lifelong love, mate.

😑 They know DAMN WELL who the “drug seekers” are. How are ppl still overdosing while ppl in the ER and Hospital can’t get proper pain management.

Beyond the statistics what is needed are the narratives of their horrors.

I know the feeling. Five years with no diagnosis 😭😭

@@keishajones5899 I mean even for the simplest of things. Any improvement in my health was NEVER from the aid of a doctor of any color. I remain baffled.

@@nadia05681 YES! I have been diagnosing myself. Eg I realized on my own that spinal issues were causing my headaches. Unfortunately I still can’t find appropriate treatment. Sigh.

@@keishajones5899 Look at it this way..... You see from this family's ordeal it might be for the better. God will send you the help needed in due time. I know you want it now but God's perfect divine timing is everything.....

That was beautiful and kind of you to say. I needed to hear that. Thank you so much, God bless!