Alyson Chadwick
1 min readAug 12, 2022

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First, you are so right. I have no idea what it is like to be Black. I do know the outrage I felt when I went to the ER with a Black woman who thought she was having a heart attack and we overheard the doctor say, "she says she doesn't do cocaine but check her anyway."

As a white woman, I have been told pain was "in my head" when it was a broken collar bone (all the male docs said it was in my head and a woman doctor saw the fracture). Or when they told me my issues were in my head and I almost bled to death because of a bleeding ulcer.

I also know Black women have a maternal mortality rate that is triple that of a white women (the American MM rate is the highest in the developed world).

Anyone who says Black women don't get inferior medical care isn't paying attention.

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Alyson Chadwick
Alyson Chadwick

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