ジェイミー・キングさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ジェイミー・キングInstagram)「Hello all, it’s @krystinaarielle again. I want to discuss another issue within the Black community that needs immediate reform. The medical care that we receive. In January 2019, after battling infertility due to endometriosis I found out that I was pregnant. I was ecstatic. At one point in my pregnancy I got really sick. I was in so much pain that I went to the emergency room. When I got to the back the nurse laughed under her breath when I would mention that I was in pain and rolled her eyes. After waiting for another hour I told her “I understand that you are busy but I’m in pain and scared for my baby.” The nurse told me “Well we have ACTUAL sick people here. You aren’t sick you’re just pregnant.” She then gave me half a bag of an iv and sent me home. The next day I was so sick my husband drove me back. I ended up spending four days in the hospital because I had the flu. The flu is extremely dangerous when you’re pregnant and had I just listened to her instead of my body God only knows where I would be today. I continued my pregnancy and didn’t find out until my emergency c-section how high risk my pregnancy truly was. These are not the only stories that I have and certainly not the only ones that I’ve heard about the disparate treatment we face in hospitals. The disparity in care for Black women is astounding. It is a strongly held belief by some medical professionals that we can “take more pain” and have “thicker skin.” This mindset is not only wrong, it’s deadly. Black mothers die at a rate nearly three times that if their White counterparts. When Black women go to the hospital and day that we are in pain we are met with immediate doubt and concerns that we are “only here for pain medicine”. Well, yes we are. Because we are in pain. Hence the visit to the hospital. This is not just a phenomenon with Pregnant women, it is an insidious prejudice that endangers all Black women. To be doubted in your most vulnerable state because medical books say we have a higher pain tolerance is disheartening at best. If we want to battle systemic racism we can not just protest the police brutality, we have to combat all forms of it that lead to the deaths of Black people.」6月6日 2時27分