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Eric Bauza's family is reporting that he died from hypertensive heart disease, according to the LA medical examiner. He was 46. My instinctual reaction is to tell people to get their shit checked out… but then i think of my own experiences this year & the cost of medicine in this country, & i just…

Emi

@emiphemera.bsky.social

Hypertension is also a particularly tricky one. The first-line meds we have also often have higher side-effect rates for non-white people, sometimes serious ones, and they aren't always as effective for non-white people either.

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Emi

@emiphemera.bsky.social

22h

And who knows how often this is brought up to patients who aren't white? But then the reason we don't have universal healthcare is also mostly racism so, what else is new.

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave

@wolven.blacksky.app

21h

Exactly.

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave

@wolven.blacksky.app

21h

There's a reason i start off all my "New Doctor"/"So What Do You Do?" talk off with some variation of "i have a PhD in studying the ways that prejudicial biases show up in science and technology, including medicine." Like… it's 10000% performing my credentials so I'm less likely to fucking die. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Emi

@emiphemera.bsky.social

21h

Yup, totally get that. I fawn and make light jokes bc I'm a woman, and making a doc feel like they're in charge means I get better care. Gotta be mentalists on top of being patients in order to make it through the minefield of modern medical bias.