How Beyoncé's Near Death Childbirth Experience Exposes Healthcare Issues For Black Women | Glam Gap 

The guy speaking is Judge Hatchett's son who lost his wife due to hospital negligence.

So we gotta wait for Beyonce to speak on her issues as a black woman for y’all to care about the rest of us common folk? 😂 gee wow I hate it here

The part about black families not talking to each other about illnesses is sooo true. In my family here in Grenada, its like a cultural thing to keep the illness a secret. Even when the person is dead, people still dont like to say what the person died from. Its crazy.

We have to start eating HEALTHIER early on in life. Put down the microwaveable food, grease, and processed goods.

BET, please add closed captioning for the hearing impaired, so these videos can inform more people. This information is vital for all audiences to hear. Thank you.

Let's not forget Serena Williams being ignored by the doctors after giving birth.

I wish they touched on sickle cell disease as well... something that impacts our communities

I had a near-death experience giving birth to my first child in 1980. I understand how all the women feel being in that situation.

Black Women please check your diets! Diets meaning the things we eat, see, touch, taste, think, and most importantly feel from your internal and external environments.

Def cultural. Unfortunately, our black ancestors were given scraps to eat and had to work much harder to survive. Bad diets and excess stress are the silent killers behind ALL of these diseases. Now that we know how to do better, we MUST. Teach our children about health, fitness, and balance 🧘🏽‍♀️🧘🏾‍♀️🧘🏿‍♀️

BET can you broadcast this on your network? This would be a great special on TV.

We also need more black doctors and providers! Our people who will look after our people and advocate for us and our health.

This is why I went back to school to change directions in reducing health disparities that affect our community.

Breast cancer statistics are the worst among African American women. We have to change the narrative by improving health literacy.

I think women who are poor, also don't get the same care as middle or upper class women do. Women who are poor and women who are minorities. Socioeconomic stereotypes are very prevalent unfortunately. I feel that this just shows that discrimination is still alive.

I’m kinda scared of having a baby now...

Sadly this treatment happens even with black physicians, my mom just last week asked for a diagnosis mammogram and was refused by a black female physician.

So after I had my daughter, I went in that June for my annual. The doctor found a lump in my breast. They referred me to someone in LR. The lady refused to do a biopsy saying it's rare for someone my age to get breast cancer. But I have been back to her every year since because the referring doctor keeps saying the same thing. So I guess I know what to do now. Get another opinion.

This happened with my sister inlaw. She's hispanic and I took her to the hospital. I told them I think she is having her baby. She's in pain and it keeps getting worse. They said ok and had us go sit down and wait! Like are you kidding me! After they finally called us we needed to give all the information while she is there trying to put up with the pain. Then we are taken by a nurse to sit again in a room when he takes her pressure and is asking how ling and all of that. After they put her in a wheelchair and we head up. So I'm thinking ok we are finally getting somewhere. They take us to the labor room and this nurse comes in and asks her for how long has she been having contractions and so on. My sister in law says she doesn't know maybe about I forgot how many minutes apart she said. The nurse looks at her and says it's been about so and so minutes and you are speaking perfectly fine with me. So the nurse gives her a cup for her to pee on and leaves. She goes to the bathroom and I can hear it's getting worse. She tried, but she couldn't pee. Fast forward when she is finally on the bed the nurse is suppose to check how far she has dilated. When my sister in-laws ob finally came in he asked the nurse this and the nurse said she wasn't close at all. So the ob looks at her and goes over to check on my sister in law. That's when he says she's close to giving birth! The nurse just responded with oh well when I checked she wasn't that far along. I'm not confrontational, but I asked another nurse if she was leaving already because I don't feel comfortable having her anywhere near my sister in law or my nephew. She was so rude and dismissive! How can she be a nurse and be like this. I don't understand when my brother finally came in I relaxed because he was around to support her better. I did see him argue with the nurse that was rude, but I never asked him what happened since I got side tracked when I saw my gorgeous nephew be born.

Beyoncé literally cleared an entire hospital floor when she had Blue Ivy.

Serena talked about this two years ago when she had her daughter.

Damn, Beyoncé had to talk about her experience for people to care?

These things (as it relates to birth) were not major issues when BLACK WOMEN Were being taken care of by OTHER BLACK WOMEN. Black midwives in the last century delivered babies safer and mothers were tended to immediately after birth. It’s funny how now that the practice (midwife) among black women has declined that the morbid rate goes up. My grand mother and great grandmother delivered their kids (13 from one and 11 from the other) in homes and make shift hospitals in the south and all of their babies survived, their pregnancies were documented by their midwives, and their health was watched closely after delivering. There are thousands of black women who had these experiences. We need more black physicians, we need more medical journals from midwives in the past (there is more than one way to deliver a baby than the common way) and we need it now.

Beyoncé had a whole hospital closed down for herself. That says at all

I relate so much with the lady with the glasses. I went to the hospital because I was in pain it turned out I had a cyst that bursted. The dr that was white looked at my mom and said shes tough she'll be alright and prescribed me pain meds. Like my pain is real im not a superhero.

I been knew this when I was pregnant with my son I was sick from start to finish it was to the point that I lost weight went from 240 to 198. It was anything I ate wasn’t nothing I could eat that would stay down. I took the medicine they gave me for the nausea and vomiting and I still wasnt keeping food down. This one doctor told me that I wasn’t trying hard enough and my child was suffering because of me. The whole thing traumatize me from start to finish. And they probably thought cause I was 18 that’s wasn’t the case.

We need more black doctors

So where did the other women go to deliver when Beyoncé cleared the whole floor just for herself? Selfish much?

Your not lying. I lost my best friend 11yrs ago from child birthing. Her family and I misses her so much!! 😢 And to make it more sader her daughter died 3days after her mom passed from giving birth to her!! 😢

This happens in Canada too I remember when I was having my son who was my first child I had a white female doctor because my original doctor had an emergency. She didn’t listen to anything I said she freaked me out.

I’m hispanic and aalll of my family’s experiences with doctors and nurses (typically white) have been horrifying. It makes me really sad for my loved ones. Edit: Speaking MY experiences. & for you people with racists-esk comments- 😘

This is why we should also make our kids feel like they don’t have to play sports..if they want to be DOCTORS or lawyers that’s just fine. Sports are ok but it’s a hard shot to get to nba or nfl whereas if u have enough support to get through school they only person stopping you from being a doctor is you

I believe the system and the underlying regulation policy that set out in the first place didn’t include us has a group of people and because that we are still having all this overall issues. Don’t for one minute think that now in this time they don’t know what they are doing. Think 🤔! What you we are experience as a group of people is no mistake unfortunately for us we just fail to acknowledge it. All the black millionaires and billionaires should start to think about building our own hospital. What you think about that?

To that doctor that said "are you calling me racist?" I'd say "prove me wrong! Do something about it"

We also need to talk about some of these birth controls and how they're destroying black womens reproductive systems.

I love that we are having this discussion but we also need to talk about the stuff black people but into their bodies. We know the food is killing us, but we just don’t care .. why?

this was very informative, i enjoyed learning.

Bravo BET! Thank you for highlighting this very important topic.

There was a study of 1st yr medical residents that found that they believe black anatomy is different from white anatomy, meaning they believed black skin & blood is stronger & more impenetrable than white skin. Thank you for making this video

Because they don't want Us to Populate and I'm Praying that will will rise ABOVE this and Populate forever and ever with no illnesses in the name of Jesus I declared us as healed. I've lost a baby this year and I have Lupus etc it's been so hard Very Hard. TY FOR BRINGING AWARENESS TO US & HEALING US. SOME THINGS FOR CAUCASIAN WOMAN JUST DON'T WORK FOR US🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💜🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💜🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💗🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💗🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

I recently got a blood clot in the hospital while being pregnant with my twins. They neglect us.

Why would a person who was having complications with their pregnancy put their babies at riisk by being in a chair that leans all the way back and if it would fall to the floor it would hurt the babies? All for a grammy performance? WTF?

So much racist, and highly uneducated, propaganda and hate in these comments.

So tru thanks bet for shedding light on this

I feel like I'm not getting the full story

The one thing that no one is speaking about is also the mistreatment by our own people in hospitals. I have been fortunate with my doctors. I’ve learned to speak up after my first bad experience at 17 when my baby was sick and they weren’t treating her. I had to contact the health department due to the mistreatment and then everyone acted accordingly after that but I have always had the worst treatment in hospitals by black nurses and I don’t get it and I always wonder if they treat the white patients the same way.

Thank you for bringing light to the issue.

Didn’t jayz and Beyoncé close down an entire hospital wing for the birth of one of their children? Rich people problems.

My cousin lost her baby girl at 8 1/2 mths pregnant with a healthy baby girl up until the day she went to the hospital for severe pain and bleeding. They made her sit in waiting room for 4hrs, until she ended up passing out. Her baby died due to a placenta rupture and her baby girl basically drowned in her blood; she ended up having to have a blood transfusions, and almost died as well. The hospital covered it up; and It was later found out that they had not even checked her in until she passed out. They brushed her pain off and left her waiting , Im assuming because she was a blk teenaged, unwed mother, at a catholic hospital, they chopped it up as her not knowing any better, not important, and didnt take her serious. Her symptoms alone should have given off red flags, and her baby would still be alive, if only they would have atleast checked her in so she would've been able to see triage. No one was held accountable, even though thru research, It was found they had other cases, dealing with discrimination and malpractice, when dealing with young mothers and minorities SMH!!

They should have never ended segregation....

It's in the unnatural hair products and food ingredients we use

I love this

In Germany is worse and black women are dying daily. Here they are being use for experiments, sometimes doctor refuse to treat them.

Give me a damn break!! It’s not just black women struggling! DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!! DON’T BELIEVE THESE “STATISTICS”! We, the American people as a WHOLE need better health care!

Great video! Very eye opening and sad and scary that this is gong on.

All of the diseases are not hereditary, it's all about lifestyle! They are all caused by what you eat, how much toxins you are releasing from your body, environment, stress levels, etc.. We must recognize our power and take our lives into our own hands!

Didn't Beyonce have the hospital shut down the the floor she was giving birth and have every other mother in labor get kicked off the floor? That's pretty Elite-ish.

Abortion is not healthcare. Also as an African American girl who recently gave birth, they STRESSED to me what risks and statistics there are for African American pregnancies and babies. This is in LA county, not a small town or anything. Every doctor's office I went to there are papers and pamplets AND groups like Black Infant Health that help with literally everything so I don't know what BET is talking about when I only learned about fibroids and other health issues specific to my ethnicity from doctors. Sounds like these women just have bad doctors but that is not the case or the normal for everyone. Also not just me, all my family members. If you have a bad doctor nurse or gynecologist then seek a better one, they are out there, my father is one of them.

This just opened my eyes. I have three experiences with health care providers who treated me like this. Wow thank you for this, this is the type of stuff we should be showing on social media not the superstars business.

A healthy living and eatting plays a part in some of these issues

We have to realize baby western society wasn’t made for us😔

I mean, this happens to all. Its not on the matter of the skin color. I'm Mexican and Obamacare wasn't so useful in the end. 😔

Thank you BET.

More more more of this please...

I really appreciate this broadcast...literally will be spending the last amount of cash to go see a gynea/fertility specialist even if it's my birthday weekend and I can't spend it with my twin sister, my health matters *sigh* Lord heal us

This is so true. I see it everyday and have experienced it myself and I work in healthcare in surgery.

Doctors do not judge someone's threshold of pain based on their ethnicity. Yes they do but it’s not because your black. I’ve been in the hospital many times once for a kidney stone and another time for a hole in my intestine, very very painful and the doctors and nurses wouldn’t and couldn’t do anything for me an hour later and I would’ve been dead but before they knew what was actually wrong with me they had no idea what I was feeling.

So happy my mom is a nurse

This really got me emotional.

this was super informative.

What happened to Beyoncé during child birth?

This was so informative, but I'm mostly commenting and liking it so youtube will keep pushing this video out into the world cause this issue coming to light is super important

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That's why I am childfree ✨✨✨✨

Thank you for sharing this very important information. I’m going to share this information, Woman of Color need to know!

Very, very true! I’ve experienced this “gap” in care my self; in my first pregnancy, again a few months ago with my pcp knowing I had been anemic for nearly a year, and again most recently In my own workplace (a health care facility) being an employee didn’t make me exempt from being a black women and being treated as such in the emergency room. To this day if I become ill at work I will not go to the Emergency room.

I have been told numerous times that my family history doesnt have anything to do with the ability to have a child. I dont understand how when everything else concerning your body is based on your family history.

where do these statistics come from?

My sister has breast cancer and my cousin died from breast cancer they are both young black women.

Listening ❤️

Labor and delivery sucks in healthcare. It’s a joke here in the US!

She’s so right we don’t talk about what’s wrong a lot !

For years I had been going to the doctor and emergency room about pain so bad that it would double me over. I wasn't taking and was not looking to take pain killers, I wanted to know what was wrong so that it could be remedied. After a white, male doctor in the er asked me, "What do you expect me to do?", I have not returned to the doctor for anything other than the mandatory TB test needed for me to work.

This is not a “black” issue. It’s just taking care of your health. Why does everything have to be about color?

Typical that the white male doctor's first worry is that he's being seen as racist rather than the black woman's health.

What near-death childbrith experience did Beyonce have? I missed that...

I really wish they would link sources on this

This was very educational. Excellent points where made and I’m sharing this with my professor. The way someone’s finances, gender, race and the inner spectrum that they exist effect health care can be very scary.

I don’t see why they specified the fact she’s black, I’d think this would relate to all women, but I guess there’s a scientific distinction between each race besides their appearance.

Asking as a genuinely concerned Black woman. Could hair relaxers be a culprit contributing to some of our health issues??

Being apart of clinical trials resonated with me. As a breast cancer survivor, I turned down one. But watching this has changed my mind.

Keep the spotlight on this.

The simple solution is clean up your diet and exercise more and you will see the doctor less. Meaning , they will have less chances of dying. Black women have to take some accountability before blaming doctors. If you live a sedentary lifestyle expect an early death and many trips to the hospital 🤷‍♀️....there I said what no one wants to say because suddenly that’s become racist.

My mom (Mexican) when she had me 28 years ago, the doctor never offered her an epidural even though she was clearly suffering from the pain. She said the doctor told her Mexicans don’t complain about pain they can take it...my mom said she would have definitely asked for epidural if she knew how to communicate it.

Is there a questionnaire that can lead families in discussions about their health backgrounds.

I’ve tried to be a part of several clinical trials and rarely get a call back.

Why are Your asking ur oppressor for help, ur abductor coloniser is not going to help u.. they are the same ones trying to kill u..

Beehive wya ❤️❤️❤️

Wow 😳

Please spread the word. Come speak at some of our universities in Detroit