#healtcare

Rest In Peace, Tori Bowie

While some vehemently deny that structural racism exists and that even individual doctors hold internal biases against Black women, maternal mortality rates do not lie.

👉🏿 https://firstandpen.com/torie-bowie-serena-williams-allyson-felix-pregnancy-black-maternal-health-mortality/

Even though 60% of all childbirth-related deaths in the US are preventable, the "[racial] disparities around maternal health are not improved by access to insurance, access to education," according to double board-certified neonatologist and pediatrician Dr. Terri Maior-Kincade.

"Having a higher socio-economic status for Black women is not protective," Major-Kincade told Insider. "These disparities are related to systemic issues, and they're not going to get better until we provide equitable care. So we have to improve the way we deliver care to Black women so that we can have the full joy of pregnancy."

Hospitals in Quebec are grappling with overcrowding, and the situation could worsen as flu season approaches. According to provincial data, wait times to see a doctor can stretch up to 13 hours in some facilities. At Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, labour shortages are exacerbating the issue. Dr. Mauril Gaudreault, president of Quebec's College of Physicians, noted that the intensive care unit is severely overcrowded. He added that patients now need to be increasingly ill to be admitted due to a lack of available beds.

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My grandpa recently had that same procedure done and thanks to our government subsidized healthcare, he paid 13$ for it.

The interesting and terrifying consequence of that relates to the 10s of thousands of people who can't have that surgery in the (~7 times richer than Serbia) United States. They aren't blind because of disease, they are blind because of capitalism.

And you don't get better proof of the evil of a system than "Many people are blind for no fucking reason besides the unlimited greed of the privileged few."